telecon20190815

LV-EM Open Forum Telecon - Thursday, August 15, 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.

How to join the call

• https://zoom.us/j/663232892.

Agenda

• Welcome and Agenda
  • At future calls, we would like to devote some time to hear from non-LVC members. Please suggest presentations or topics.
• Run summary and plans:
  • Presentation by Run Coordinators (Brian O'Reilly): O3 LIGO, Virgo, and Kagra status
    • Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA observing run plans document
  • Useful links to preserve:
    • 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
  • Questions/ideas on this scope to David Shoemaker [email protected], Alessio Rocchi [email protected]
• Low-latency alerts:
  • Source-classification and source-properties presentation slides
  • New page format for alerts
  • LIGO/Virgo Public Alerts User Guide
• Q&A
• Planned LVC publications based on O3:
  • S190425z. Paper in preparation with tentative submission target in September 2019.
  • S190521g. Paper in preparation with tentative submission target in November 2019.
  • Gravitational-wave Transient Catalog update based on O3a. Tentative submission target April 2020.
• 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.
• General questions/ideas on LVC-MMA communication and organization to [email protected] [email protected]

Recording

• https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-T1900531/public