Telecon20230413

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.

Topic: OpenLVKEM Town Hall
Time: Apr 13, 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

Announcements and introduction
- Updated release of the user guide with corrected early warning information.
- Please send comments to [email protected]
- 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?