LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Town Hall Telecon - Thursday, 27 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 27, 2023 09:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/j/96460338524?pwd=dTJUTWJ3QnVoSnhYRnQ3U3NSeDlnQT09

Meeting ID: 964 6033 8524 Passcode: 027400

Agenda

• Announcements and introduction
  • ER15 started at 1500 UTC on April 26, 2023; we plan to start O4 on 24 May 2023.
    • LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston joined on Apr/26 at 1500 UTC with plans to perform calibration measurements and other tests.
    • Virgo joined on Apr/26 at 1500 UTC, for a limited fraction of time over the duration of the ER, giving priority to commissioning activities aiming at improving the sensitivity
    • KAGRA will continue commissioning up to one week before the start of the O4 to improve sensitivity.
  • Request a slot at an upcoming meeting
• LVK rapid response team update (Keita Kawabe): G2300908--v4
• Community presentations
  • Gravitational Wave Treasure Map (http://treasuremap.space) updates for O4 (Samuel Wyatt <sdwyatt@uw.edu>, University of Washington)
    • GWTM_openlvem04272023.pdf
    • GitHub: https://github.com/TheTreasureMap
• Future items:
  • SCiMMA presentations on kafka alert systems.
  • Discussion of early-warning expectations in O4.
  • Interpreting alert information.
  • Hermes
  • other?

Recording

Reference Links

-- Main.Patrick - 2023-04-26