Realtime alerts of the transient sky on mobile devices

P. Reichherzer; F. Schüssler; V. Lefranc; A. Alkan; J. Becker Tjus

Realtime alerts of the transient sky on mobile devices

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2021-11-11 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Authors: P. Reichherzer , F. Schüssler , V. Lefranc , A. Alkan , J. Becker Tjus

Abstract

Follow-up observations of transient events are crucial in multimessenger astronomy. We present Astro-COLIBRI as a tool that informs users about flaring events in real-time via push notifications on their mobile phones, thus contributing to enhanced coordination of follow-up observations. We show the software's architecture that comprises a REST API, both a static and a real-time database, a cloud-based alert system, as well as a website and apps for iOS and Android as clients for users. The latter provide a graphical representation with a summary of the relevant data to allow for the fast identification of interesting phenomena along with an assessment of observing conditions at a large selection of observatories around the world in real-time.

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transient events real-time alerts mobile devices multimessenger astronomy follow-up observations push notifications astro-colibri

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@article{arxiv.2111.05427,
  title  = {Realtime alerts of the transient sky on mobile devices},
  author = {P. Reichherzer and F. Schüssler and V. Lefranc and A. Alkan and J. Becker Tjus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.05427},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Proceeding for ADASS 2021. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2109.01672

Realtime alerts of the transient sky on mobile devices

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