Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON): Science, Infrastructure, and Status

Azadeh Keivani, Hugo Ayala, James DeLaunay (for the AMON core team)
(Submitted on 16 Aug 2017)

The realization of multimessenger astrophysics will open new vistas upon the most energetic events in the universe. Messenger particles of all four of nature’s fundamental forces, recorded by detectors on the ground and satellites in space, enable coincidence searches for multimessenger phenomena that will allow us to discover, observe, and explore these sources. The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) links multiple high-energy neutrino, cosmic ray, and gamma-ray observatories as well as gravitational wave facilities into a single virtual system, enabling near real-time coincidence searches for multimessenger astrophysical transients and their electromagnetic counterparts, and providing alerts to follow-up observatories. The science case, design elements, partner observatories, and status of the AMON project are presented, followed by recent results from AMON real-time and archival analyses.

Comments:    Proceedings of the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017), Bexco, Busan, Korea
Subjects:    Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
Journal reference:    PoS(ICRC2017)629
Cite as:    arXiv:1708.04724 [astro-ph.IM] (or arXiv:1708.04724v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
Submission history
From: Azadeh Keivani
[v1] Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:06:39 GMT (355kb,D)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04724