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Auto-import of gamma-ray bursts or other transient events

Peter Kretschmar 7 years ago • updated 2 years ago • 3

The Gamma-ray Coordinates Network (GCN) or Transient Astronomy Network (TAN) distributes information about gamma-ray bursts or other transient events in (near-real) time via different services, including VOEvents.

https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/

It could be interesting for multi-wavelength follow-up campaigns to have an interface allowing view of burst/transient positions in ESASky, including the reported position uncertainties and which is built automatically from the GCN/TAN alerts. The view should evidently allow filtering on categories like time, event category, source ...


This is an idea for the longer term.

Peter Kretschmar 2 years ago

Well, I was more optimistic about the time scale, when I proposed this.:-) But thanks for having it implemented! 

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Deborah Baines 2 years ago

Dear Peter,

It's been a long time since your first suggestion (you did say for the long term :-) ), and as you know, we're happy to say that we've started this effort to add multi-messenger events in ESASky, starting with Gravitational Waves and Neutrino events. Our first automatic notifications from GCN happened this month from two IceCube Neutrino events, with the events being added to ESASky less than 1 minute after being reported in GCN notices. 

Our next steps are to add other types of multi-messenger events, including gamma-ray bursts. 

More information on the multi-messenger feature in ESASky can be found here: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esdc/esasky-interface#MultiM

Many thanks for your continued support.

Kind regards,

Debbie on behalf of the ESASky team

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Bruno Merín 7 years ago

Thanks Peter, that is a good suggestion. We will add this to the backlog and discuss with you a possible incremental implementation of this feature that can see the light earlier than the full idea..

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