Change Log

Version 2 (2018-12-13)

Alert Contents

• Removed the Vetted parameter from GCN Notices. It was intended to indicate whether the event had passed human vetting. However, it was redundant beacuse by definition Preliminary events have not been vetted and all Initial and Update alerts have been vetted.
• The type of the Retraction parameter in the GCN Notices was changed from a string (false or true) to an integer (0 or 1) for consistency with other flag-like parameters.
• Remove the units attribute from parameters that are not numbers.

Sample Code

• GCN has now begun publicly broadcasting sample LIGO/Virgo GCN Notices. Updated the sample code accordingly with instructions for receiving live sample notices.

Version 1 (2018-11-27)

Getting Started Checklist

• Updated instructions for joining the OpenLVEM Community.

Observing Capabilities

• Changed the expected number of BNS events in O3 from 1-50, as stated in the latest version of the Living Review, to 1-10 events, as stated in the more recent rates presentation.

Alert Contents

• In the example VOEvents, moved the Classification and Inference quantities from the <Why> section to the <What> section so that they validate against the VOEvent 2.0 schema.