The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON). (arXiv:1903.08714v1 [astro-ph.IM])
<a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Solares_H/0/1/0/all/0/1">Hugo A. Ayala Solares</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Coutu_S/0/1/0/all/0/1">Stephane Coutu</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Cowen_D/0/1/0/all/0/1">D. F. Cowen</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+DeLaunay_J/0/1/0/all/0/1">James J. DeLaunay</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Fox_D/0/1/0/all/0/1">Derek B. Fox</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Keivani_A/0/1/0/all/0/1">Azadeh Keivani</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Mostafa_M/0/1/0/all/0/1">Miguel Mostafá</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Murase_K/0/1/0/all/0/1">Kohta Murase</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Oikonomou_F/0/1/0/all/0/1">Foteini Oikonomou</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Seglar_Arroyo_M/0/1/0/all/0/1">Monica Seglar-Arroyo</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Turley_G/0/1/0/all/0/1">Gordana Tešić. Colin F. Turley</a>
The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) has been built
with the purpose of enabling near real-time coincidence searches between
different observatories and telescopes. Its mission is to evoke, exploit and
explore multimessenger sources. AMON aims to promote the advancement of
multimessenger astrophysics by allowing its participants to study the most
energetic phenomena in the universe and to help answer some of the outstanding
enigmas in astrophysics, fundamental physics, and cosmology. The main strength
of AMON is its ability to combine and analyze sub-threshold data from different
facilities. These data cannot generally be used standalone to identify
astrophysical sources. The analysis algorithms used in AMON will identify
statistically significant coincidence candidates of multimessenger events,
leading to the distribution of AMON alerts used by partner observatories for
real-time follow-up to catch transient events. We present the science
motivation, partner observatories, implementation and summary of the current
status of the AMON project.
The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) has been built
with the purpose of enabling near real-time coincidence searches between
different observatories and telescopes. Its mission is to evoke, exploit and
explore multimessenger sources. AMON aims to promote the advancement of
multimessenger astrophysics by allowing its participants to study the most
energetic phenomena in the universe and to help answer some of the outstanding
enigmas in astrophysics, fundamental physics, and cosmology. The main strength
of AMON is its ability to combine and analyze sub-threshold data from different
facilities. These data cannot generally be used standalone to identify
astrophysical sources. The analysis algorithms used in AMON will identify
statistically significant coincidence candidates of multimessenger events,
leading to the distribution of AMON alerts used by partner observatories for
real-time follow-up to catch transient events. We present the science
motivation, partner observatories, implementation and summary of the current
status of the AMON project.
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