telecon20190926

LV-EM Open Forum Telecon - Thursday, September 26, 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

• Topic: OpenLVEM Call
• Time: Jul 18, 2019 09:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
• Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/663232892
• Meeting ID: 663 232 892

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.
• Announcements
  • Revised "Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA" at https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0670
  • NASA task force multi-messenger survey (Brad Cenko)
• Run summary and plans:
  • Presentation by Run Coordinators
    • 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:
  • Inviting feedback from O3 operations (Apr 1 to Sep 30): [email protected]
  • EM-bright pipeline now uses machine learning-based algorithm for gstlal events
  • Fixed skymap fits filename/URL to uniquely/permanently identify them in GCN notices
  • Introduced autogating of glitches for gstlal events
  • New page format for alerts
  • LIGO/Virgo Public Alerts User Guide
• Q&A
• Planned LVC publications based on O3:
  • S190425z. Paper in preparation with release target in October.
  • S190521g. Paper in preparation to be released later in 2019 or early 2020.
  • Gravitational-wave Transient Catalog update based on O3a, plus companion papers. Release 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-G1901910/public

Files

• Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA observing run plans