Conference: Windows on the Universe: Establishing the Infrastructure for a Collaborative Multi-messenger Ecosystem

拟于10月16日至18日在亚利桑那州图森举行的会议将汇集多信使天文学（MMA）电磁跟踪领域的政府机构和专家科学家。会议将侧重于确定加强后续MMA活动协调的途径，减少地面和天基天文台网络的业务冗余，并促进MMA社区的合作。将邀请社区审查后续资源的现状，报告现有的合作和伙伴关系，并确定成功的潜在障碍。会议将提出具体的想法，并将在一份公开白皮书中传播。会议的结果将有助于确定2024财年NSF招标的范围，该招标致力于为后续社区之间的协调基础设施和努力提供资金。该提案要求资助举办研讨会，并支持MMA社区多个领域的参与者出席。所有会议参与者都必须阅读并同意ISEE行为准则，该准则概述了对行为的期望，以及对任何经历不当行为的人的保密和非保密报告选择。随着引力波和粒子探测器现在通过我们动态宇宙的新窗口定期观察事件，我们已经进入了多信使天文学的时代。我们拥有先进的资源来识别Multi-Messenger事件的电磁对应物，然后监测和描述它们的演变。这项活动需要协调所有可用的望远镜及其能力。虽然科学潜力是惊人的，但未来的运动将是资源密集型的，昂贵的，并且需要在社区之间进行大量的协调、合作和沟通，以便提供有效的科学。为了促进有效的多信使后续工作，组织者将邀请国际观察社区参加一个开放的研讨会。组织者将要求研讨会参与者概念化处理数据共享的社区战略和方法，即望远镜指向计划，计划和执行，观测结果和校准数据等。此外，我们要求研讨会参与者确定激励MMA社区内协调、合作、伙伴关系和同僚关系的途径。该提案要求资助举办为期三天的研讨会，人数限制在不超过90人。所要求的资金将用于支付会议场地的费用（包括混合能力），为一部分与会者提供旅费支助，并为所有与会者提供膳食。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The proposed conference, to be held on October 16-18 in Tucson AZ, will bring together government agencies and expert scientists in the field of Multi-Messenger Astronomy (MMA) electromagnetic follow-up. Sessions will focus on identifying pathways that increase the coordination of follow-up MMA campaigns, reducing operational redundancy across the network of ground- and space-based observatories, and fostering collaboration in the MMA community. The community will be invited to review the current state of follow-up resources, report on existing collaborations and partnerships, and identify potential obstacles to success. The conference will develop concrete ideas that will be disseminated within a public white paper. The findings of the conference will help develop the scope of an FY2024 NSF solicitation dedicated to funding coordination infrastructure and efforts among the follow-up community. This proposal requests funding to host the workshop and to support participant attendance across multiple fields in the MMA community. All conference participants are required to read and agree to the ISEE code of conduct that outlines expectations for behavior and confidential and non-confidential reporting options for anyone who experiences misconduct.With gravitational-wave and particle detectors now routinely observing events through new windows upon our dynamic Universe, we have entered the era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy. We have advanced resources to both identify the electromagnetic counterparts of Multi-Messenger events and then monitor and characterize their evolution. This activity requires coordination of the full range of available telescopes and their capabilities. While the scientific potential is staggering, future campaigns will be resource-intensive, expensive, and require considerable coordination, collaboration, and communication among the communities in order to deliver effective science. Motivated to foster effective Multi-Messenger follow-up, Organizers will invite the international observing community to participate in an open workshop. Organizers will ask the workshop participants to conceptualize community strategies and methods of tackling data sharing - i.e., telescope pointing plans, both planned and executed, observation outcomes, and calibrated data etc. Furthermore, we ask the workshop participants to identify pathways which will incentivize coordination, collaboration, partnership, and collegiality within the MMA community. This proposal requests funding to host a three-day workshop, limited in number to no more than 90 people. The requested funding would support the costs of a meeting venue (including hybrid capability, provide travel support for a subset of the participants, and meals for all attendees.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.