Telecon20191024

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

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

The call will be one hour long.

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?"
- Iair Arcavi: "The Treasure Map"
  - Presentation
  - Contact email

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/[email protected]
Questions/ideas on these Telecons and run planning to David Shoemaker ([email protected]), Alessio Rocchi ([email protected]), Shinji Miyoki ([email protected])
General questions/ideas on LVC-MMA communication and organization to [email protected], [email protected]

-- Main.David - 2020-02-10