Astroparticle Seminar

The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON)

Gordana Tešić

Department of Physics, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos
Pennsylvania State University

The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) aims to use the messenger particles of all four fundamental forces in order to discover high-energy transient phenomena that would be extremely difficult to detect by any single observatory alone. AMON will link together several current and future high-energy (neutrino, cosmic and gamma-ray) and gravitational wave observatories into a single system with higher combined sensitivity than that of any participating experiment alone. We present the design elements, current and projected partner observatories, the anticipated science return and discovery potential of the AMON network.