LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Town Hall Telecon - Thursday, 13 April 2023 @ 14:00 UTC, 07:00 US Pacific

Telecon time: 07:00 US Pacific / 09:00 US Central / 10:00 US Eastern / 16:00 Central Europe

The call will be one hour long.

How to join the call

Topic: OpenLVKEM Town Hall Time: Apr 13, 2023 09:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

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Agenda

• Announcements and introduction
  • Updated release of the user guide with corrected early warning information.
  • Please send comments to emfollow-userguide@support.ligo.org
  • Request a slot at an upcoming meeting
  • O4 public data release announcement:With O4 starting on 24 May 2023 and planned to last 20 months, including up to 2 months of commissioning breaks, LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA is planning two O4 public data releases: O4 Data Release A: Release M01-M10 at the end of August 2025 and O4 Data Release B: Release M11-M20 at the end of May 2026. Here, M01 is 24 May 2023 to 23 June 2023, M02 is 24 June 2023 to 23 July 2023, and so on.
• Instrument updates
  • LIGO (Peter Fritschel, 10 min)
  • Virgo (Raffaele Flaminio, 10 min)
  • KAGRA (Takahiro Sawada, 10 min)
  • Engineering Run update (Brian O'Reilly, 10 min)
• Community presentations
  • Update from GCN (Vidushi Sharma et al, 15 min)
• Future items:
  • SCiMMA presentations on kafka alert systems.
  • Discussion of early-warning expectations in O4.
  • Interpreting alert information.
  • Treasure Map
  • Hermes
  • other?

Recording

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