Skyportal overview¶

Functionnalities of Skyportal¶

SkyPortal enables research teams to:

• Ingest and manage millions of astronomical alerts per night from multiple discovery streams. The alerts are defined as changements into the sky and may refer to various types of sources : variable stars, AGN, explosive events
• Scan and classify alerts and transient candidates efficiently
• Coordinate follow-up observations across telescope networks on a specific source or on a not well localized event in the sky (GRB, Neutrinos, GWs)
• Collaborate through groups with multiple collaborations, comments, and real-time notifications
• Integrate with external services like the Transient Name Server (TNS) and GCN notices
• Provide an API to interact with the service (as download info)

About Skyportal/ICARE¶

ICARE is has been originally developped for GRANDMA and is a customized deployment of SkyPortal, featuring a tailored "layer" of frontend and backend extensions specifically. It aims to target GRANDMA's observational workflow and collaboration needs.

ICARE functionnalities can be extended to ACME's community needs

ICARE instance : https://skyportal-icare.ijclab.in2p3.fr
ICARE repository on Github : https://github.com/grandma-collaboration/icare
ICARE official documentation : https://grandma-skyportal.readthedocs.io/