SNEWS Firedrill Incoming

Science High Energy Network
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Hello Everyone,

The SNEWS team is working on a new firedrill in preparation for the next galactic supernova. Below are details for Dr. Danny Milisavljevic on how to participate:

We’re ready to practice responding to a galactic supernova alert!

A SNEWS follow up fire drill that will be used to test the new alert distribution system is scheduled to happened between August 11-22. The exact date and time will remain unknown until the alert is issued.

To participate, you must sign up for the mailing list that will be our “official” means of communication moving forward.

Two options to join:

  1. The easiest way is to send an email to

sympa@lists.bnl.gov

using the following subject line, where you subsistute “FirstName” and “LastName” with your own information

subscribe snews-followup FirstName LastName

  1. An alternative way to join is to visit this website and follow the steps to join.

Look for the tiny “Subscribe” option in the menu on the left. You will be prompted many times to confirm and will need to respond to a confirmation email.

Please join the mailing list as soon as possible! I will send one more email as a reminder later this week. After that, I will discontinue using the current list and aim to send out further notices exlusively on the official mailing list.

Details about the fire drill will be distributed in a subsequent email.

Thank you all deeply for your support. We plan to write up our experience in a journal article and all participants will be included as coauthors.

Thanks and Clear Skies,
Dr. Bert Pablo
Staff Astronomer, AAVSO

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For ordinary astronomy enthusiasts, can they also register for this mailing list?

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Hello,

This very much depends on why you want join the mailing list. Anyone is welcome to join the list, however, that comes with a tacit agreement that you are capable of and will be participating in the fire drills. Obviously, it will happen at a random time so you may not be able to, but as long as you intend to give it your best effort, then it is open to all.

Thanks,
Bert Pablo
Staff Astronomer, AAVSO

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