Updates will be given on the new GCN alert format, Rubin brokers, the TOM Toolkit, and AEON on Las Cumbres and NOIRLab facilities (SOAR, Blanco, Gemini).

A significant amount of effort is being put into developing systems and software to allow more efficient follow-up of large transient surveys (e.g. Catalina, Pan-STARRS, ZTF, and especially Rubin), and multi-messenger astronomy (MMA).  This session will provide an update on these efforts and provide a forum for feedback and discussion.  Topics will include event brokers, target observation managers, observing systems and telescope networks, and data pipelines and archives. Other issues such as coordinating observations and time allocation options can be discussed. This session will provide useful information for teams proposing Rubin in-kind contributions of telescope time and will contribute to organizing community needs for new software tools.

Note the closely related session on transient identification.

Agenda

• Intro (Bryan Miller)
• New GCN Alerts (Leo Singer)
• Rubin Alert Plans and Broker Selection (Eric Bellm)
• ANTARES Broker (Tom Matheson)
• Alerce Broker (Alejandra Muñoz)
• Pitt-Google Broker (Michael Wood-Vasey)
• TOM Toolkit and Related Tools, AEON on Las Cumbres (Rachel Street)
• AEON @ NOIRLab (César Briceño)
• Rubin In-Kind Telescope Contributions (Steve Margheim)