LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Town Hall Telecon - Thursday, 2 Nov 2023 @ 16:00 UTC, 09:00 US Pacific

Telecon time: 09:00 US Pacific / 11:00 US Central / 12:00 US Eastern / 17:00 Central Europe

The call will be one hour long.

How to join the call

Topic: OpenLVKEM Town Hall Time: Nov 2, 2023 11:00 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
  • Request a slot at an upcoming meeting
• LVK updates
  • Updates on LIGO
  • Update from Virgo - virgoStatus_2023-11-02.pdf
  • Update from KAGRA
• Other updates
  • GCN News Highlights: Judy Racusin
    • GCN Circulars
    • • Cross references. Navigate the GCN Circulars archive faster with Circulars cross-references, TNS transients, arXiv preprints, DOIs, and other URLs displayed as hyperlinks.
      • Bibliographies. Cite GCN Circulars by retrieving their SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) bibcodes and BibTeX records from the GCN Circulars archive.
      • Archive Download. Download the entire GCN Circulars archive as a tarball.
    • GCN Notices
      • Improvements to broker reliability.
      • Additions to recommended client code templates.
      • New version of Python client library.
    • GCN Unfied Schema
      • Schema browser. Quick reference for our new multi-mission alert format based on JSON.
      • New alert types. Introducing alerts for Swift/BAT GUANO and IceCube in the GCN Unified Schema.
      • Documentation for new notice producers. Instructions for adding a new notice type and reference for the Unified Schema.
    • GCN Help Desk. Now, when you contact us through our contact page, we create a support ticket using Zendesk. The ticketing system will help us to resolve user questions more quickly and thorougly.
  • Swift update: Brad Cenko
• Future items:
  • Report from NOIRLab MMA workshop
  • other?

Recording

Reference Links

-- PatrickBrady - 2023-11-01