Explor'Espace 2025 is on! Astro-COLIBRI is teaming up with the CTAO group at CEA Paris-Saclay to showcase high-energy and transient astrophysics to a wide (and very numerous) audience. A whole weekend full of interesting exchanges ahead... 🔭🧪⚛️

explorespace.afastronomie.fr

Here we go... the 4th Astro-COLIBRI Multi-Messenger Astrophysics workshop has begun... 🔭🧪⚛️☄️

indico.ijclab.in2p3.fr/event/11610/...

The recordings will be published on our YouTube channel after the event. Subscribe there to stay up-to-date: www.youtube.com/@astro-colibri

A great excursion during ICRC2025 to one of the birthplaces of cosmic ray research: the Jungfraujoch research station where Auger, Leprince-Ringuet, Ehrenfest, et al. discovered extensive air showers. The research station remains active today, right in the middle of a crowded tourist destination. 🔭

Astrophysics sometimes takes you to extreme, remote places— like San Pedro de Atacama for the SWGO collaboration meeting, including a visit to the future high-energy gamma-ray observatory site. At 4775 m above sea level! 🔭🧪☄️

The Rubin Observatory is getting ready! 🔭🧪⚛️
Isn’t it amazing how the camera looks like a giant DSLR? 🤩

The IceCube neutrino observatory detected another high-energy event today. Let me use it to showcase a new figure in Astro-COLIBRI: it places key event parameters in context with archival data to aid decisions on investing valuable telescope time in follow-up observations. 🔭🧪⚛️
shorturl.at/Rf0IP

Not really raw data, but here is a map of TeV gamma-rays recorded by H.E.S.S.
Its interpretation is showing cosmic ray particle acceleration during nova explosions. The hotspot in the picture coincides with RS Ophiuchi during it's 2021 outburst making it the first Galactic TeV transient. 🔭💥

A wonderful trip down memory lane: my first time back at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Malargüe, Argentina. It’s been exactly 16 years since I finished my PhD working on the initial data collected by this remarkable facility. 🔭

A teaser of the Astro-COLIBRI smart home integration 🤩
Never miss another astrophysical transient ever again! 🔭

astro-colibri.science/smarthome

Another very useful and interesting meeting is coming to a close: the "15th Gaia Science Alerts workshop and ORP Time-Domain meeting" was held at the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in Heraklion (Crete) this week. 🔭

The 3rd Astro-COLIBRI multimessenger astrophysics workshop took place last week at the Paris-Saclay university. Participants from 15 countries brainstormed about improving time domain astrophysics. Resulting in exciting ideas that will become reality in the very near future! Stay tuned.💥🔭

This is fun... Here is mine.

The new year marks a moment to reflect on Astro-COLIBRI's journey. Thanks to our dedicated team and great user feedback significant improvements were achieved in 2023. 🔭🧪

Engage with us and shape what's next on our brandnew forum: forum.astro-colibri.science

The 2nd Astro-COLIBRI Multimessenger Workshop is coming to an end. 🔭🧪
Wonderful participants from around the world provided a lively atmosphere full of discussions and work on improvements to Astro-COLIBRI and the landscape of multi-messenger tools.

INTEGRAL and Fermi-GBM detected a short GRB (or a giant magnetar flare) with a localisation that is perfectly consistent with the very close M82 galaxy! This could turn out as a very exciting event... 🔭🧪
astro-colibri.com/event:010427

Just a nice picture I took last night. Somehow it never gets old.

LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA just published an update to their gravitational wave observation plan. LIGO will start a commissioning break on 16 Jan 2024 for about 2 months. Virgo will join O4 not later than March 2024. KAGRA will also rejoin O4 in spring 2024. 🔭🧪
Details: observing.docs.ligo.org/plan/