Speaker
Description
The discovery of transient phenomena—such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), stellar flares, novae, and supernovae—together with the emergence of new cosmic messengers like high-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves, has revolutionized astrophysics in recent years. To fully exploit the scientific potential of multi-messenger and multi-wavelength follow-up observations, as well as serendipitous detections, researchers need a tool capable of rapidly compiling and contextualizing essential information for every new event. We present Astro-COLIBRI, an advanced platform designed to meet this challenge.
Astro-COLIBRI is a comprehensive platform that combines a public RESTful API, real-time databases, a cloud-based alert system, and user-friendly interfaces including a website and mobile apps for iOS and Android. It ingests alerts from multiple sources in real time, applies user-defined filters, and situates each event within its multi-messenger and multi-wavelength context. The platform provides clear data visualization, concise summaries of key event properties, and evaluations of observing conditions across a wide network of observatories worldwide.
In this contribution, we will present the architecture of Astro-COLIBRI, from the data pipelines that manage real-time alert ingestion and processing to the design of the RESTful API, which enables seamless integration with other astronomical software and services. We will illustrate how this framework supports applications in high-energy time-domain astrophysics through concrete use cases, thereby establishing Astro-COLIBRI as a key enabling tool for the multi-messenger community.
| Affiliation of the submitter | IRFU / CEA Paris-Saclay |
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| Attendance | in-person |
