The CGCA (The Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics) seminars are scheduled for Fridays at 1:00 pm in in the Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex (KIRC) Room KEN 2175. A “brown bag lunch” group will assemble in KEN 4118 (fourth floor kitchenette located next to the elevators) at 12:00 NOON.

Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON): Science, Infrastructure, and Status
Azadeh Keivani, Penn State University

The realization of multimessenger astrophysics will open up a new field of exploration of the most energetic phenomena in the universe. Messenger particles of all four of nature’s fundamental forces reach detectors on the ground and satellites in space. Finding coincident signals from these experiments in real time will help us explore their sources. The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) will link multiple current and future high-energy neutrino, cosmic rays, and gamma rays observatories as well as gravitational wave facilities into a single virtual system, enabling near real-time coincidence searches for multimessenger astrophysical transients and their electromagnetic counterparts and providing alerts to follow-up observations. In this talk, I will present the science case, design elements, partner observatories, and status of the AMON project, followed by examples of AMON archival analyses.