Robotic Autonomous Observatories: A Historical Perspective

Table 1

Scientific use of RAOs (adapted from [46]).

Description	Percentage
Gamma-ray bursts	22.1%
Service observations	15.0%
Education	14.3%
Photometric monitoring	10.0%
All-sky surveys	8.6%
Exoplanet searches	7.9%
Supernovae search	7.1%
Asteroids	5.7%
Spectroscopy	2.9%
Astrometry	2.9%
AGN, Quasars	2.9%
Microlensing	0.7%
Other uses	5.7%