LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Town Hall Telecon - Thursday, 21 July 2022 @14:00 UTC - 07:00 US Pacific

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Agenda

• Introduction [5 min, Spokesperson]
• Overview of O4 run plans, risks, and data release [10 min, Takahiro Sawada]
• Low-latency analysis and alert update [10 min, Roberto De Pietri]
• Questions & Discussion [10 min]
• Updates from the community (25 min, <= 2 slides per team/presenter)
  • Judith Racusin (NASA/GSFC): Introducing new GCN Kafka broker and web site for transient alerts: https://gcn.nasa.gov
    • Teaser slides (PDF)
    • Full presentation (opens in browser)
  • Mario Juric (DiRAC Institute, University of Washington) SCIMMA HopSkotch, scimma.org
    • SCIMMA-OpenLVEM-Sparkler-2-delivered.pdf: Mario Juric Presentation
  • Bryce Cousins (Penn State University / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Vera Rubin Observatory TOO for LVK alerts
    • LVEM-townhall-July2022_Rubin-LVK-SCiMMA.pdf: Bryce Cousins
  • Graham Smith (University of Birmingham) Gravitationally lensed BNS/kilonova discovery as motivation for including pGAP in low latency alerts from LVK in O4.
    • lvkem-smithgp-20220721.pdf: Graham Smith presentation
  • Andy Howell (Las Cumbres Observatory / UCSB) Hermes and others tools for following up LVK alerts in O4.
    • HERMES-OpenLVEM.pdf: Andy Howell presentation

Recording

• https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-G2201198/public

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