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Description
Since 2018, led by the GRANDMA Collaboration, the Kilonova-Catcher (KNC) citizen science program aims to directly involve a worldwide community of citizens in the search for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational-wave sources. Over the past two years, the scientific scope of KNC has broadened to include “fast” extragalactic transients such as gamma-ray burst afterglows, nearby supernovae, cosmological GRB-SNe, cataclysmic variables, and more.
The KNC community is growing and can now support several observational programs simultaneously, significantly contributing to time-domain astronomy discoveries and follow-up campaigns. In this presentation, I will provide an overview of the current status of the KNC network and its organizational structure. I will also present insights into the performance of this worldwide network of citizen astronomers and relate them to the needs of the transient astronomy community using Fink data.