Monitoring the non-thermal Universe 2018

Session

Multi-Messenger

Sep 18, 2018, 2:15 PM

Cochem (Mosel), Germany

Conveners

Multi-Messenger: Multi-Messenger 1

• Peter Veres (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

Multi-Messenger: Multi-Messenger 2

• René Reimann (RWTH Aachen)

51. Monitoring and Multi-Messenger Astronomy with IceCube

René Reimann (RWTH Aachen)

9/18/18, 2:15 PM

Oral

IceCube is the current largest neutrino observatory with an instrumented detection volume of 1 km³ in the ice-sheet below the antarctic South Pole station. With a 4π field of view and an uptime of >99% it is constantly monitoring the full sky to find astrophysical neutrinos. With the detection of an astrophysical neutrino flux in 2013, IceCube opened a new observation window to the...

24. AMON Multimessenger Alerts: Past and Future

Hugo Ayala (Pennsylvania State University)

9/18/18, 2:45 PM

Oral

The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) was founded to tie the world’s high-energy and multimessenger observatories into a single network, with the purpose to discover multimessenger sources, to exploit these sources for purposes of astrophysics, fundamental physics, and cosmology, and to explore project datasets for evidence of multimessenger source populations. Successes...

12. Multi-messenger astronomy in the era of the Zwicky Transient Facility

Ludwig Rauch (DESY)

9/18/18, 3:15 PM

Oral

With the start of a wide-field optical photometric survey at the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a unique opportunity has begun to scan the northern sky for transients such as Core-Collapse Supernovae, Active Galactic Nuclei and Tidal Disruption Events. The scientific potential is achieved by combining a 47 sq. deg. camera that can perform a 3PI survey each night to a depth of 20.5 mag with...

38. Deciphering the violent universe through gravitational waves

Yoshinta Setyawati (AEI Hannover)

9/19/18, 2:15 PM

Oral

Four hundred years ago Galileo revolutionised the way we see the universe through his telescope. Since then fascinating yet bizarre astrophysical phenomena reveal our capricious universe. Using electromagnetic observations we have been discovering exciting events at different wavelengths. Surprisingly, the universe is eager to send us information through different kinds of waves which probe...

20. Very-high-energy gamma-ray follow-up of gravitational waves with HAWC

Israel Martinez-Castellanos (University of Maryland)

9/19/18, 2:45 PM

Oral

On August 17th, 2017 the LIGO and Virgo detectors observed gravitational waves consistent with a binary neutron star (BNS) coalescence, with spatial and temporal coincidence with a gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor. Subsequent emission in the optical, ultraviolet, infrared, X-ray and radio bands was also observed. This was a milestone in multi-messenger...

19. Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Observations of Gravitational Wave Counterparts

Peter Veres

9/19/18, 3:05 PM

Oral

The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) routinely observes the unocculted sky for transient astrophysical phenomena in gamma-rays. On August 17th, 2017 Fermi-GBM detected GRB 170817A, the first unambiguous electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave event. Observationally, GRB 170817A was an ordinary short GRB. Together with the distance information from the gravitational wave...

52. Information on the conference dinner

9/19/18, 3:25 PM

Oral