TY - JOUR
T1 - The Dawn of Multimessenger Astronomy
AU - Cowen, D. F.
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-1708146. The author acknowledges support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Swift Guest Investigator Program under grant NNX17AI95GICS. AMON gratefully acknowledges support from the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos and the Institute for CyberScience at the Pennsylvania State University.
PY - 2020/1/20
Y1 - 2020/1/20
N2 - The realization of multimessenger astrophysics is opening up a new field of exploration of the most energetic phenomena in the universe. Astrophysical messengers associated with each of the four fundamental forces reach detectors buried deep underground or underwater, spread across wide swaths of land, and orbiting high above us in space. Recent detection of coincident real-Time signals amongst these experiments heralds the birth of high-energy multimessenger astronomy and enables us to begin exploring and understanding their astrophysical sources. The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) is currently linking multiple current and future high-energy neutrino, cosmic ray, gamma ray and gravitational wave observatories into a single virtual system, facilitating real-Time coincidence searches for multimessenger astrophysical transients. AMON will generate alerts that will enable rapid follow-up of potential electromagnetic counterparts. We present the science case, design elements, partner observatories, and status of AMON.
AB - The realization of multimessenger astrophysics is opening up a new field of exploration of the most energetic phenomena in the universe. Astrophysical messengers associated with each of the four fundamental forces reach detectors buried deep underground or underwater, spread across wide swaths of land, and orbiting high above us in space. Recent detection of coincident real-Time signals amongst these experiments heralds the birth of high-energy multimessenger astronomy and enables us to begin exploring and understanding their astrophysical sources. The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) is currently linking multiple current and future high-energy neutrino, cosmic ray, gamma ray and gravitational wave observatories into a single virtual system, facilitating real-Time coincidence searches for multimessenger astrophysical transients. AMON will generate alerts that will enable rapid follow-up of potential electromagnetic counterparts. We present the science case, design elements, partner observatories, and status of AMON.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/1342/1/012001
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/1342/1/012001
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85079095558
VL - 1342
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
SN - 1742-6588
IS - 1
M1 - 012001
T2 - 15th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2017
Y2 - 24 June 2017 through 28 June 2017
ER -