LV-EM Open Forum Telecon - Thursday, September 26, 2019 @14:00 UTC

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Agenda

• Welcome and Agenda
  • At future calls, we would like to devote some time to hear from non-LVC members. Please suggest presentations or topics.
• Announcements
  • Revised "Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA" at https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0670
• Run summary and plans:
  • Presentation by Run Coordinators
    
    • Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA observing run plans document
  • Useful links to preserve:
    • Detector status data portal: https://www.gw-openscience.org/detector_status/
    • Real-time up/down status: https://ldas-jobs.ligo.caltech.edu/~gwistat/gwistat/gwistat.html
    • Monitor dashboard: https://monitor.ligo.org/gwstatus
  • Questions/ideas on this scope to David Shoemaker <dhs@ligo.mit.edu>, Alessio Rocchi <alessio.rocchi@roma2.infn.it>
• Low-latency alerts:
  • Topics TBD
  • New page format for alerts
  • LIGO/Virgo Public Alerts User Guide
• Q&A
• Planned LVC publications based on O3:
  • S190425z. Paper in preparation with release target around the end of September.
  • S190521g. Paper in preparation to be released later this Fall.
  • Gravitational-wave Transient Catalog update based on O3a, plus companion papers. Release target April 2020.
• A listing of conferences of interest to LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA, and also MMA topics, is maintained at https://wiki.ligo.org/LSC/UpcomingConferencesAndMeetings -- please let us know if there are meetings we should add and bring to the attention of the LVK Community.
• General questions/ideas on LVC-MMA communication and organization to lsc-spokesperson@ligo.org virgo-spokesperson@ego-gw.it

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