Welcome to the OpenLVEM web

This is the community forum on multi-messenger observations connected to Gravitational Wave (GW) transient event detections. This forum has no requirements for participation -- anyone interested can join. This open forum started in January 2018. The LIGO-Virgo Collaboration will use this forum to communicate and interact with the community.

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Sign up to the OpenLVEM Forum at gw-astronomy.org: approval and subscription to the openlvem@gw-astronomy.org mailing list is automatic if you provide and confirm a valid e-mail address (for help on this topic, email gwastro-help@cgca.uwm.edu). Information about observing runs, how to receive alerts, and open science with LIGO-Virgo data will be communicated via OpenLVEM mailing list. The OpenLVEM forum will also organize occasional teleconferences and in-person meetings to foster communication with physicists and astronomers interested in multi-messenger observations connected to gravitational waves.

A detailed Public Alert User Guide explains how to receive public alerts, documents the contents of those alerts, and explains how to interpret them. Questions specifically related to public alerts should be directed to the help-desk at contact+emfollow/userguide@support.ligo.org.

Telecons

• Telecon - Nov 21,2019 at 14:00 UTC [07:00 Pacific US, 16:00 Central European]
• Telecon - Oct 24,2019 at 14:00 UTC [07:00 Pacific US, 16:00 Central European]
• Telecon - Sept 26,2019 at 14:00 UTC [07:00 Pacific US, 16:00 Central European]
• Telecon - August 15,2019 at 14:00 UTC [07:00 Pacific US, 16:00 Central European]
• Telecon - July 18,2019 at 14:00 UTC [07:00 Pacific US, 16:00 Central European]
• Telecon - June 20, 2019 at 14:00 UTC [07:00 Pacific US, 16:00 Central European]
• Telecon - May 23, 2019 at 14:00 UTC [07:00 Pacific US, 16:00 Central European]
• Telecon - April 25, 2019 at 14:00 UTC [07:00 Pacific US, 16:00 Central European]
• Telecon - March 14, 2019 at 15:00 UTC [08:00 Pacific US, 16:00 Central European]
• Telecon - February 14, 2019 at 15:00 UTC [07:00 Pacific US, 16:00 Central European
• Telecon A - February 15, 2018 at 08:00 UTC [09:00 Central European]
• Telecon B - February 15, 2018 at 15:00 UTC [07:00 Pacific US]
• Telecon - January 25, 2018 at 14:00 UTC [09:00 Eastern US, 15:00 Central European]

Townhall Meetings

• March 16-17, 2018 in Cambridge, MA and April 12-13, 2018 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Other links

• The original LVEM forum (login required)
• LSC and VIRGO policy on releasing gravitational-wave triggers in the advanced detector era
• LIGO Data Management Plan: June 2017
• Fermi-GBM-LIGO-Virgo sub-threshold search

OpenLVEM Web Utilities

• WebTopicList - all topics in alphabetical order
• WebChanges - recent topic changes in this web
• WebNotify - subscribe to an e-mail alert sent when topics change
• WebRss, WebAtom - RSS and ATOM news feeds of topic changes
• WebPreferences - preferences of this web