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VOEventNet
Real-Time Astronomy with a Rapid-Response Telescope Grid

Caltech Contact: Roy Williams
Email: roy at cacr.caltech.edu
Website: http://www.voeventnet.org

VOEventNet is a peer-to-peer cyberinfrastructure to enable rapid and federated observations of the dynamic night sky.
VOEventNet is a network of telescopes and computers working synergistically, under the watchful eye of humans, to find and study interesting astronomical events.
VOEventNet is a transportation of events to interested subscribers, automatically in seconds or minutes after discovery.

Exploration of transient sources represents one of the last frontiers in modern astrophysics. The development of a comprehensive understanding of a new event requires real-time observation with multiple instruments. Yet while telescope facilities continue to ramp up to unprecedented data rates, there has been no concerted effort to ensure real-time communications of astronomical events. A federated response must be enabled to push transient astrophysics ahead in the 21st century. VOEventNet will be a driving force for a rapidly growing new area of astronomical inquiry, eventually serving as a transparent backbone to enable pan-facility communication.