Speaker
Foteini Oikonomou
(Penn State University)
Description
The most energetic astrophysical phenomena, produce a range of “messengers” from photons and neutrinos, to cosmic rays and gravitational radiation. These messengers carry details of the energetics and physical conditions in these sources. The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) aims to discover new particle astrophysics phenomena by merging the world's leading multimessenger observatories into a single data system for the first time. The facilities linked by AMON observe high-energy neutrinos (the IceCube and ANTARES Neutrino Observatories), the strongly-interacting nuclei observed as cosmic rays (the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory), and in future phases, gravitational waves (the Advanced LIGO and VIRGO gravitational-wave detectors). AMON has been receiving and distributing IceCube neutrino alerts to partner observatories in real-time as of mid-2015. In this talk I will give an overview of the current status and near-future plans of AMON, focusing on the contribution of IceCube and the Pierre Auger Observatory.
Author
Foteini Oikonomou
(Penn State University)
