TY - JOUR
T1 - The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON)
AU - Smith, M. W.E.
AU - Fox, D. B.
AU - Cowen, D. F.
AU - Mészáros, P.
AU - Tešić, G.
AU - Fixelle, J.
AU - Bartos, I.
AU - Sommers, P.
AU - Ashtekar, Abhay
AU - Jogesh Babu, G.
AU - Barthelmy, S. D.
AU - Coutu, S.
AU - Deyoung, T.
AU - Falcone, A. D.
AU - Gao, Shan
AU - Hashemi, B.
AU - Homeier, A.
AU - Márka, S.
AU - Owen, B. J.
AU - Taboada, I.
N1 - Funding Information:
Initial development of AMON has been funded by Penn State’s Office of the Senior Vice President for Research, the Eberly College of Science, and the Penn State Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos. D. F. Cowen acknowledges the support of the Penn State Institute for CyberScience Faculty Fellows Program; I. Bartos and S. Márka acknowledge support from Columbia University and the National Science Foundation under cooperative agreement PHY-0847182.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - We summarize the science opportunity, design elements, current and projected partner observatories, and anticipated science returns of the Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON). AMON will link multiple current and future high-energy, multimessenger, and follow-up observatories together into a single network, enabling near real-time coincidence searches for multimessenger astrophysical transients and their electromagnetic counterparts. Candidate and high-confidence multimessenger transient events will be identified, characterized, and distributed as AMON alerts within the network and to interested external observers, leading to follow-up observations across the electromagnetic spectrum. In this way, AMON aims to evoke the discovery of multimessenger transients from within observatory subthreshold data streams and facilitate the exploitation of these transients for purposes of astronomy and fundamental physics. As a central hub of global multimessenger science, AMON will also enable cross-collaboration analyses of archival datasets in search of rare or exotic astrophysical phenomena.
AB - We summarize the science opportunity, design elements, current and projected partner observatories, and anticipated science returns of the Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON). AMON will link multiple current and future high-energy, multimessenger, and follow-up observatories together into a single network, enabling near real-time coincidence searches for multimessenger astrophysical transients and their electromagnetic counterparts. Candidate and high-confidence multimessenger transient events will be identified, characterized, and distributed as AMON alerts within the network and to interested external observers, leading to follow-up observations across the electromagnetic spectrum. In this way, AMON aims to evoke the discovery of multimessenger transients from within observatory subthreshold data streams and facilitate the exploitation of these transients for purposes of astronomy and fundamental physics. As a central hub of global multimessenger science, AMON will also enable cross-collaboration analyses of archival datasets in search of rare or exotic astrophysical phenomena.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.03.003
DO - 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.03.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84876525853
SN - 0927-6505
VL - 45
SP - 56
EP - 70
JO - Astroparticle Physics
JF - Astroparticle Physics
ER -