Last week (October 12–16) we gathered at the Institut Pascal (Paris-Saclay) with researchers from around the world for five days of science, discussion and collaboration. Thank you to everyone who joined us!
Talks and keynotes
The first days featured a dense program of invited and contributed talks on the latest developments in time-domain and multi-messenger astrophysics. Two keynotes stood out:
- Igor Andreoni took us on the journey from ZTF to Rubin/LSST, and what the coming flood of transient alerts means for our community.
- Thomas Wevers presented the exciting Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System, which is set to revolutionize our field in the coming years.
Recordings of the talks will be shared on our YouTube channel soon, and we’ll post the link here once they’re online.
Sciathon
The second half of the week was dedicated to our Sciathon: hands-on brainstorming on science cases and analyses, as well as new features and integrations for Astro-COLIBRI. The teams worked on:
- Early identification of false Fermi-GBM triggers caused by solar particles
- An alert broker built on the AT Protocol, with a nice side effect: Astro-COLIBRI now has its own Bluesky account, @astro-colibri.science. Follow us!
- Integration of the Astro-COLIBRI API and broker into the NuTS scheduler, used by the upcoming HERON observatory and the EUSO balloon flights, as well as into the CTAO transient handler
- Integration of GRB classifications based on time structures in the prompt emission
- A “rewind” of prominent gravitational-wave events to draw lessons for future alerts
- A comparison of neutrino detections between IceCube and KM3NeT
- Brainstorming about extracting useful information from upper limits obtained in different energy ranges during GW follow-up observations
- A new approach to checking supernova classifications (and possibly those of other optical transients)
- Integration of the Redback tools into Astro-COLIBRI
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The energy and creativity were fantastic, and we’ll keep you posted here as these projects mature into new features and results. If you’d like to contribute to any of them, reply below or get in touch!
A huge thank you to all speakers and participants, to the Institut Pascal for once again providing the perfect setting and infrastructure and for their smooth organisation, and to the Astro-COLIBRI team for making it all happen.
See you at the next edition! It is already schedule to take place October 4-8, 2027!