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Kilonova Catcher Project by GRANDMA

Bikeman
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Bikeman Sat, 02/13/2021 - 22:59
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I'd like to promote the Kilonova-Catcher citizen science project here. This seems to be perfect for collaboration with High Energy Network observers of the AAVSO.

 

If you haven't watched it already, the second part of this AAVSO webinar

https://youtu.be/WIDxZDA2ZvY "AAVSO Webinar, with Melanie Crowson and Dr. Sarah Antier"

is a perfect introduction into this subject. The second part where Dr Sarah Antier explains this starts at around 39min  into the webinar.

 

Welcome to the High Energy Network

daveh
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daveh Tue, 02/25/2020 - 17:48
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Welcome to the AAVSO International High Energy Network Forum and the High Energy Network Observing Section. The AAVSO International High Energy Network is dedicated to the optical monitoring of high energy astrophysical phenomena in the universe. It is an expansion of the AAVSO International Gamma-Ray Burst Network which had great success in discovering and observing the optical afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).

HEN NEWS 05/2024 (The one with E.T. in it)

Bikeman
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Bikeman Thu, 07/11/2024 - 18:34
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There are good news to report from the LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA collaboration of mojor gravitational wave (GW) detectors: The universe will be given more time to thow an interesting GW event (hopefully with an optical counterpart accessible to amateurs!) at us, as the current observation run will be extended.

The new planned end-date for the "O4" run now is 9 June 2025, originally it was planned to end O4 in January 2025.

https://observing.docs.ligo.org/plan/

Blazar B2 1420+32, QSO B1420+326, OQ 334 is in eruption at about 14.7 mag

Bikeman
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Bikeman Mon, 07/01/2024 - 14:00
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This is a nice target! There will probably be an AAVSO alert about this soonish, but I'd suggest to observe this one ASAP.

Some info:

ATEL: https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=16681 "A strong optical flaring from the Seyfert 1 Galaxy OQ 334 (B2 1420+326)"

SIMBAD: https://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=QSO+B1420%2B326&submit=SIMBAD+search

Clear Skies!

HB

 

Section Spotlight: Spectroscopy, HEN & PEP

tlyster
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tlyster Wed, 06/26/2024 - 15:14
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You are invited to a one-hour webinar on June 29 featuring brief talks from three AAVSO Sections:

  • Spectroscopy
  • High Energy Network
  • Photoelectric Photometry

We’ll also discuss the AAVSO's Section system, and ways to get involved.

Registration and additional information here.

HEN NEWS 04/2024 (The one with multi-messenger astrology in it)

Bikeman
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Bikeman Fri, 05/10/2024 - 19:39
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I’d like to look back on April and highlight some things that might be of interest for HEN members. So let’s start with April 1st, Fools Day. There were some hilarious papers posted on arxiv, here are just a few examples:

1) Multi-Messenger Astrology : https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19749

Yeah, why be limited to observations in the visual spectrum for astrology if we have so many more wavelengths to observe today. Makes perfect nonsense :-)

Black Hole - Neutron Star merger alert (especially for Australia)

Bikeman
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Bikeman Tue, 04/23/2024 - 07:41
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This is especuially of interest for Australian observers right now as the night starts on the East coast soon: https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S240422ed/view/

 

For a prioritized list of target galaxies to observe, go to http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/NED::GWFevents/ and select "S240422ed" from the drop down list

HEN News 03/2024 (The one with alphabet soup in it [O4, LIGO, KAGRA, VIRGO,...])

Bikeman
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Bikeman Thu, 04/04/2024 - 21:16
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There are news from the gravitational wave observatories: The planned pause in the O4 observation run is almost over, and the O3b part of the run is scheduled to resume on April 10th, 0800 Pacific time. Low latency alerts are already active already now. So it's time again to be prepared for the vent everybody is waiting for: an alert about the next Binary Neutron Star (BNS) merger event with sky localization that would allow amateurs and professionals alike to hunt down any optical counterpart!

Details can be found at https://observing.docs.ligo.org/plan/

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