Sep 26 – 30, 2022
Ruhr-University Bochum
Europe/Berlin timezone

Realtime alerts of the transient sky with Astro-COLIBRI

Sep 26, 2022, 5:00 PM
30m
Lecture hall HIB (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Lecture hall HIB

Ruhr-University Bochum

44801 Bochum, Germany

Speaker

Patrick Reichherzer (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Description

Follow-up observations of transient events are crucial in multimessenger astronomy. We present Astro-COLIBRI as a tool that informs users about flaring events in real-time via push notifications on their mobile phones, thus contributing to enhanced coordination of follow-up observations. We show the software's architecture that comprises a REST API, both a static and a real-time database, a cloud-based alert system, as well as a website and apps for iOS and Android as clients for users. The latter provide a graphical representation with a summary of the relevant data to allow for the fast identification of interesting phenomena along with an assessment of observing conditions at a large selection of observatories around the world in real-time.

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