@GOTO_Network

The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) Network: identifying the optical counterparts to gravitational wave events. https://xitter.cf/t.co/Oj7wZZhazR

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Like many of you we in the GOTO collaboration have become concerned at the way X (we liked it better as Twitter) has developed, so we're leaving for Bluesky. Join us there as @GOTO-network.bsky.social
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Zooniverseの市民科学プロジェクトKilonova Seekersの日本語版「恋する超新星」を翻訳し立ち上げました！ @GOTO_Network というサーベイがほぼリアルタイムで撮影した画像から新天体を探すプロジェクトで、昨年夏から超新星候補を50個近く報告し11個が分光確認されてます。 zooniverse.org/projects/tkil…
このプロジェクトで発見されたSN 2023dxv。左が当時ほぼリアルタイムの画像で真ん中が参照用の過去画像、右が差分。

ALT このプロジェクトで発見されたSN 2023dxv。左が当時ほぼリアルタイムの画像で真ん中が参照用の過去画像、右が差分。

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Our new (from 2023) site at Siding Spring, Australia has provided much more interesting wildlife than our original site at La Palma, in the Canary Is. Some native visitors are not as welcome and frankly a bit of a nuisance
Exterior security cam for the GOTO node at siding spring, with the view obscured by a large spider

ALT Exterior security cam for the GOTO node at siding spring, with the view obscured by a large spider

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Applying for PhDs/grad school, postdocs, internships, faculty jobs in Astronomy this fall? Here's a website that aims to list a lot of incredible resources that the astro community has made: Check out: tinyurl.com/nhdt9us2 [1/4]
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Today's hybrid GOTO collaboration science meeting (in-person at @WarwickAstro) showcases an amazing year for our project. Both nodes are operational and regularly detecting transients from a wide range of triggers. Plot from David O'Neill's talk; TNS = Transient Name Server
Slide from the talk of David O'Neill (Warwick U.) showing the performance of the GOTO Network over time, and comparing the stats for transients streamed, reported, and leading to new discoveries from August 2023 & 2024

ALT Slide from the talk of David O'Neill (Warwick U.) showing the performance of the GOTO Network over time, and comparing the stats for transients streamed, reported, and leading to new discoveries from August 2023 & 2024

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Check out our @GOTO_Network citizen science project first results le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/ki…

Citizen science project makes 20 new astronomical discoveries | News | University of Leicester

The public has played an instrumental role in identifying cosmic explosions for a citizen science project involving the University of Leicester.

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Citizen science project @GOTO_Network makes 20 new astronomical discoveries. Full story 👇 le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/ki… #CitizensOfChange
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Citizen science project 'Kilonova Seekers' has already ID'd 20 new cosmic explosions in 6 months. Led by @GOTO_Network, involving @MonashAstro A/Prof @DuncanKGalloway and Sergey Belkin, the first stage is published in #MNRAS @RAS_Journals. Read more 👇 monash.edu/science/news-even…
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Our GOTO instruments now have a smaller sibling... introducing "Gotito"! It's a single ASA unit telescope on a mount on La Palma that @WarwickAstro PhD student Ben Godson and other collaboration members will use as a test platform for possible future camera and filter changes.
Image of "Gotito", so-called companion to the larger GOTO arrays on La Palma, featuring a single 40-cm ASA-manufactured unit telescope on a dedicated mount. Photo courtesy Ben Godson

ALT Image of "Gotito", so-called companion to the larger GOTO arrays on La Palma, featuring a single 40-cm ASA-manufactured unit telescope on a dedicated mount. Photo courtesy Ben Godson

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We also plan to use Gotito for confirming new detections from the larger array during the night, and performance will be similar. Currently fitted with Sloan g, r, i and Bessel I filters in addition to GOTO-L so beautiful colour images like this snap of M31 are also possible
Composite image of M31 assembled from observations with L, g, r and i filters, taken with the new Gotito instrument on La Palma, Canary Islands

ALT Composite image of M31 assembled from observations with L, g, r and i filters, taken with the new Gotito instrument on La Palma, Canary Islands

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Collaboration members from @MonashAstro and @WarwickAstro are at GOTO-South this week to replace cameras following maintenance. K. Ulaczyk took this magnificent image showing the Great Celestial Emu, as known by indigenous observers of the sky, head down theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Night view of the operational GOTO-South telescopes at Siding Spring, with the Milky Way in the background

ALT Night view of the operational GOTO-South telescopes at Siding Spring, with the Milky Way in the background

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Not all the wildlife on site is as appealing... this ferocious-looking female Red-headed Mouse spider can produce copious amounts of a highly toxic venom, which is potentially as dangerous as that of the Sydney Funnel-web Spider.
Black spider with bright red head and prominent fangs spotted on the concrete GOTO-South base, identified as a female Red-headed Mouse spider

ALT Black spider with bright red head and prominent fangs spotted on the concrete GOTO-South base, identified as a female Red-headed Mouse spider

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Previous winners include @martinjohndyer with a thesis on control systems for @GOTO_Network
Royal Astronomical Society@RoyalAstroSoc30 Jan 2024
⏱️Deadline fast approaching⏱️ Final reminder that nominations for the Patricia Tomkins Thesis Prize must be submitted by 31 January. 🏆 The annual £1,000 award recognises the best doctoral thesis in instrumentation science for astronomy and geophysics. ras.ac.uk/awards-and-grants/…
A background consisting of purple hexagons and lines. The RAS logo is visible in the top right corner. Text on the left side reads "Patricia Tomkins Thesis Prize 2024. Apply now. Deadline: 31 January 2024."

ALT A background consisting of purple hexagons and lines. The RAS logo is visible in the top right corner. Text on the left side reads "Patricia Tomkins Thesis Prize 2024. Apply now. Deadline: 31 January 2024."

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With interferometric detectors on hiatus, we have no chance of binary neutron-star inspiral detections for a while. We're still following up GRB triggers, but what else do our followers think we should observe?
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The first half of our fourth observing run (O4a) has come to a close We'll be back with an engineering run on 13 March, and should start the second half of the observing run (O4b) on 27 March observing.docs.ligo.org/plan… Please no-one explode until we're back!
Planned timeline of observing runs. The fourth observing run has two halves, each of about 9 months

ALT Planned timeline of observing runs. The fourth observing run has two halves, each of about 9 months

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[citizen science] "Black Hole Hunters" See zooniverse.org/projects/coba…

Black Hole Hunters | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Making the invisible visible.

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🔔📜 IceCube paper submitted to EPJ+! We report on a successful first attempt at engaging the public in research. Over the course of six months, 1,800 @the_zooniverse users aided in 128,000 classifications of IceCube neutrino events. 🤯 Story ➡️ icecube.wisc.edu/news/resear…
Volunteer users first watched a short video on the left. Then, based on the shape and timing of the colored bubbles, they were asked to pick the corresponding category from among the five options on the right.

ALT Volunteer users first watched a short video on the left. Then, based on the shape and timing of the colored bubbles, they were asked to pick the corresponding category from among the five options on the right.

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Gamma-ray burst optical afterglow discovery from @GOTO_Network : gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/35596
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.@MonashAstro's Felipe Jiménez-Ibarra presented this week on black holes and GOTO to high school final year students at IES Santa Úrsula, Tenerife (Spain). More than 80 attendees, including students and teachers, particularly excited about our kilonova-seekers.org project!
Monash postdoctoral researcher Felipe Jiménez-Ibarra presenting on black holes and the GOTO telescope network to high school final year students at IES Santa Úrsula, Tenerife (Spain), 2023 October

ALT Monash postdoctoral researcher Felipe Jiménez-Ibarra presenting on black holes and the GOTO telescope network to high school final year students at IES Santa Úrsula, Tenerife (Spain), 2023 October

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A huge milestone for newly-commissioned GOTO-South yesterday: first science output! Our GRB working group reported very early non-detections of GRB 230911C around 5 mins post-trigger, read more here: gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/34662
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