2019/03/11 by Philip Chang, Gabrielle Allen, Chang, Philip +104
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Scientific Computing and Data Management #Superconducting Materials and Applications #astro-ph.HE #astro-ph.IM #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1903.04590
7 pages, astro2020 white paper
arxiv created 2019/03/11 · openalex publication_date 2019/03/11 · arxiv updated 2019/03/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The identification of the electromagnetic counterpart of the gravitational wave event, GW170817, and discovery of neutrinos and gamma-rays from TXS 0506+056 heralded the new era of multi-messenger astrophysics. As the number of multi-messenger events rapidly grow over the next decade, the cyberinfrastructure requirements to handle the increase in data rates, data volume, need for event follow up, and analysis across the different messengers will also explosively grow. The cyberinfrastructure requirements to enhance multi-messenger astrophysics will both be a major challenge and opportunity for astronomers, physicists, computer scientists and cyberinfrastructure specialists. Here we outline some of these requirements and argue for a distributed cyberinfrastructure institute for multi-messenger astrophysics to meet these challenges.