Nov 26, 2019
E. A. Huerta, Gabrielle Allen, Igor Andreoni, Javier M. Antelis, Etienne Bachelet, Bruce Berriman, Federica Bianco, Rahul Biswas, Matias Carrasco, Kyle Chard, Minsik Cho, Philip S. Cowperthwaite, Zachariah B. Etienne, Maya Fishbach, Francisco Förster, Daniel George, Tom Gibbs, Matthew Graham, William Gropp, Robert Gruendl, Anushri Gupta, Roland Haas, Sarah Habib, Elise Jennings, Margaret W. G. Johnson, Erik Katsavounidis, Daniel S. Katz, Asad Khan, Volodymyr Kindratenko, William T. C. Kramer, Xin Liu, Ashish Mahabal, Zsuzsa Marka, Kenton McHenry, Jonah Miller, Claudia Moreno, Mark Neubauer, Steve Oberlin, Alexander R. Olivas, Donald Petravick, Adam Rebei, Shawn Rosofsky, Milton Ruiz, Aaron Saxton, Bernard F. Schutz, Alex Schwing, Ed Seidel, Stuart L. Shapiro, Hongyu Shen, Yue Shen, Leo Singer, Brigitta M. Sipőcz, Lunan Sun, John Towns, Antonios Tsokaros, Wei Wei, Jack Wells, Timothy J. Williams, Jinjun Xiong, Zhizhen Zhao
Multi-messenger astrophysics is a fast-growing, interdisciplinary field that combines data, which vary in volume and speed of data processing, from many different instruments that probe the Universe using different cosmic messengers: electromagnetic waves, cosmic rays, gravitational waves and neutrinos. In this Expert Recommendation, we review the key challenges of real-time observations of gravitational wave sources and their electromagnetic and astroparticle counterparts, and make a number of recommendations to maximize their potential for scientific discovery. These recommendations refer to the design of scalable and computationally efficient machine learning algorithms; the cyber-infrastructure to numerically simulate astrophysical sources, and to process and interpret multi-messenger astrophysics data; the management of gravitational wave detections to trigger real-time alerts for electromagnetic and astroparticle follow-ups; a vision to harness future developments of machine learning and cyber-infrastructure resources to cope with the big-data requirements; and the need to build a community of experts to realize the goals of multi-messenger astrophysics.
* Nature Reviews Physics volume 1, pages 600-608 (2019)
* Invited Expert Recommendation for Nature Reviews Physics. The art
work produced by E. A. Huerta and Shawn Rosofsky for this article was used by
Carl Conway to design the cover of the October 2019 issue of Nature Reviews
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