Telecon20231102

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.

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

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?