h1. Monthly Meeting - 02/25/2025
Slides with all the informations are attached to this page.
This webinar and monthly meeting was recorded. You can find Andrew Toivonen's presentation in the 2024_2025_Webinars for 02/25/2025.
Monthly Meeting Recording: https://youtu.be/CszRpBzN36E?si=hvAi8JoeH_WPWAu9
h2. Agenda:
- Introducing our Speaker: Doctoral Candidate, Andrew Toivonen
- Welcome and introductions.
Speaker presentation: "Gravitational Wave Classification & S250206dm"
The Main Call
Updates on Initiatives within KNC:
Alert System with GRBs
Alert System with GWs
Reminders
Topic Requests!
Photo Submission Form!
Photo Challenge 1
h2. Meeting Minutes:
- Alert System with GWs & GRBs on Slack
- Ingested Alerts:
- All Swift alerts will be alerted directly to #grbalerts
- A fraction of GW alerts based on the following criteria will be reported to #gwalerts:
- BNS, area_90 < 1000 sq. deg, distance < 200 Mpc
- NSBH, area_90 < 1000 sq. deg, distance < 500 Mpc
BBH, area_90 < 100 sq. deg, distance < 500 Mpc
Slack Alert Communications
Automatic notifications via Slack when a GW alert is retracted (not for GRBs).
Emails are not yet available for alerts.
New Slack Feature: “GW event XX: discussion thread for the follow-up”
This will help better organize event discussions under individual threads.
Reminders
Photo submissions posted to social media from Roger Hellot and Roger Menard.
We should see a draft of the manual before the end of March.
A few ambassadors from telescope groups have offered to assist!
March - Separation of webinar and telecon! → ~ 2 weeks from now.
Looking for auto-translator subtitles for zoom calls!
KNC is now on sci starter! → This manual will come in handy here!