LV-EM Open Forum Telecon - Thursday, October 24, 2019 @14:00 UTC

How to join the call

Agenda

• Announcements
  • At future calls, we would like to devote some time to hear from non-LVC members. Please suggest presentations or topics. We have two presentations today.
• Run summary and plans:
  • O3 Commissioning Break Update
• Low-latency alert updates:
  • What is new in O3-b
  • Userguide
• Q&A
• Planned LVC publications based on O3:
  • S190412m. Paper in preparation with release in early 2020.
  • S190425z. Paper in preparation with release target in October or November.
  • S190521g. Paper in preparation to be released early 2020.
  • Gravitational-wave Transient Catalog update based on O3a, plus companion papers. Release target April 2020.
• Observer Presentations (each about 10')
  
  • Juan Garcia-Bellido: "Have we detected primordial black holes at LIGO-Virgo?"
    • Presentation
    • Scientific American article
    • https://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.07565
    • https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.08275
    • https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.08217
    • Contact email
  • Iair Arcavi: "The Treasure Map"
    • Presentation
    • Contact email

Recording

Reference Links

• 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
• Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA observing run plans document
• 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.
• New page format for alerts
• LIGO/Virgo Public Alerts User Guide
• Questions/ideas on low latency alerts to contact+emfollow/userguide@support.ligo.org
• Questions/ideas on these Telecons and run planning to David Shoemaker <dhs@mit.edu>, Alessio Rocchi <alessio.rocchi@roma2.infn.it>, Shinji Miyoki <miyoki@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
• General questions/ideas on LVC-MMA communication and organization to lsc-spokesperson@ligo.org virgo-spokesperson@ego-gw.it

• LVEM_22Oct2019_JGB.pdf: Bellido Presentation