Observations of transient phenomena, such as GRBs, FRBs, novae/supernovae explosions, coupled with the detection of cosmic messengers like high-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves, have transformed astrophysics. Maximizing the discovery potential necessitates tools for swiftly acquiring an overview of the most relevant information for each new detection. Introducing Astro-COLIBRI, a comprehensive platform designed to meet this challenge. Astro-COLIBRI features a public API, real-time databases and alert systems, a discussion forum, and a website and iOS/Android apps as user clients. In real time, it evaluates incoming astronomical observation messages from all available alert streams, filters them based on user-defined criteria, and contextualizes them in the multi-wavelength (MWL) and multi-messenger (MM) context. User clients offer a graphical representation, providing a succinct summary for quick identification of interesting phenomena and assessing observing conditions globally.
@article{arxiv.2406.01817,
title = {Managing the Growing Complexity of Multi-Messenger Transient Events with Astro-COLIBRI},
author = {Fabian Schüssler and A. Kaan Alkan and M. de Bony de Lavergne and J. Mourier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.01817},
year = {2024}
}
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contribution to the 2024 "Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe" session of the 58th Rencontres de Moriond