Discussion Meeting about agreements for LIGO-Virgo Event Follow-up Program
Tinbergen room
Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) and the Virgo Collaboration currently plan to start taking data in 2015, and we expect the sensitivity of the network to improve over time. Gravitational-wave transient candidates will be identified promptly upon acquisition of the data; we aim for distributing information with an initial latency of a few tens of minutes initially, possibly improving later. The LSC and the Virgo Collaboration (LVC) are now working to develop a program of accompanying electromagnetic observations. Early positional accuracies of the GW candidates will evolve in time, as described in arxiv.org:1304.0670. During early science runs before publication of the first four gravitational wave events, alerts will be available only through partnerships to be developed under this program (ref. LIGO-M1200055). Partners will be asked to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) involving an agreement on deliverables, publication policies, confidentiality, and reporting. After the publication of the first four gravitational wave events, the current LVC plan is to release alerts on all highly significant detection candidates promptly to the entire scientific community.
Open call for Letters of Interest
Participants should have received an invitation to this meeting - if you are not sure about having received one, please contact LSC-Spokesperson@ligo.org or virgo-spokesperson@ego-gw.it.
This meeting will take place at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) (map, directions). Hotels can be booked through websites such as ebookers.com or hotels.com.
Link to the companion meeting in Chicago.
Adam Zadrozny
Albert Lazzarini
Alexei Pozanenko
aniello grado
Arne Rau
Bernard Schutz
Boer Michel
Cadonati Laura
Champion David
Chiara Ferrari
Christopher Copperwheat
David Reitze
Don Pollacco
Dovi Poznanski
Eric Chassande-Mottin
Eugenio Coccia
Gabriela Gonzalez
Gijs Nelemans
Jason Hessels
Jean-Yves Vinet
Joeri van Leeuwen
Larry Price
M.Alessandra Papa
Marica Branchesi
Michitoshi Yoshida
Nial Tanvir
Nicholas Rattenbury
Nicolas Leroy
Nobuyuki Kawai
Oliver Jennrich
Paul Groot
Paul O'Brien
Peter Jonker
pia astone
Ralph Wijers
Samaya Nissanke
Sergio Ricciarini
Shri Kulkarni
Stephen Eikenberry
Stephen Fairhurst
Steven Bloemen
Tom Marsh
Ulrich Kolb
Vladimir Lipunov
Wilfried Domainko
