But also…

But also…

The next decade will see the fruition of several major facilities especially designed to study the transient sky in the electromagnetic domain (LSST, CTA, SKA, and LOFAR). This evolution will be accompanied by rapid progress in the sensitivity of all-sky detectors for neutrinos (KM3NeT and IceCube) and gravitational waves (Advanced LIGO and Virgo).

Together, these facilities will revolutionize our view of cosmic explosions and of the transient sky in general. All these facilities distribute alerts on timescales of tens of seconds, offering unique opportunities to study the early phases of cosmic explosions by rapid observations with COLIBRI. The scientific rationale for rapid follow-up includes the physics of the early stages of cosmic explosions (GRB shocks and interaction with their environment, supernova shock breakout, binary star mergers), and the rapid identification of the optical counterparts of GRBs, gravitational wave transients, FRBs, and neutrino sources.

More generally, observing time will be open to the French and Mexican communities through a standard “Call for Proposals” analyzed by Time Allocation Committees. It will then be possible to carry out many other programs, such as the study of exoplanets, variable stars, etc.