2.12.0
2024-04-17
- Additional filtering options for gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos
- Event descriptions via OpenAI/GPT-4
- Minor changes and bug fixes: new onboarding, fixed synchronisation of filter settings, etc.
2.11.0
2024-03-14
- Added support for the RAPAS and BHTOM networks (submission of interesting events from the frontends + weekly list of most interesting transient posted in the ASTRO-COLIBRI FORUM)
- Download the full filter settings defined in the interface as JSON file (science mode)
- Minor bug fixes and improvements: fixed opening of Unistellar deeplinks + added new event information: sun distance + follow-up campaigns
2.9.1
2024-01-19
- bug fix: error circles in manual cone search
- minor tweaks to event cards
2.7.0
2023-09-28
- Improved the “science mode” and enabled it on the mobile apps
- Support for deeplinks:
. An URL that contains the Astro-COLIBRI identifier allows to load a selected event
. Enables sharing of events (e.g. social media, exchanges with colleagues, etc.)
. If installed, the app loads instead of the web frontend when receiving a deeplink on a smartphone
- Add a pop up window in the notification screen when notifications are disabled in the OS
Minor changes and bug fixes
- Visibility plot now correctly handling event updates and multiple detections:
. Improved event description text for Gw events
. Improved documentation of the API
. Improved and updated onboarding tutorial
2.6.0
2023-08-23
- Added very bright SN candidates selected by the Unistellar Citizen Science program and the ALeRCE broker
- New notifications: “bright + early optical transients”
- Direct link to the Unistellar app to start follow-up observations
Minor changes
- Added redding due to dust absorption and link to NED extinction calculator
2.5.3
2023-07-31
- Link to new FINK API endpoint for cone searches within GW contours
- Bug fixes:
- Custom observatory selection working again
- GW contour are now displayed when selecting a scheduling tile
2.5.2
2023-07-10
New filtering of gravitational wave events: Significant GW events + Non-significant GW events
2.5.1
2023-07-05
- GWs
- Fixed loading of GW contours
- Dedicated configuration for GW scheduling with H.E.S.S.
- Improved account deletion procedure
2.5.0
2023-06-21
- Gravitational wave follow-up
- https://tilepy.com: new cloud-based API to calculate optimized follow-up schedule
- Access directly from the app
- Results integrated in event list and map
- Improved definition of custom observatories + more parameters
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
2.4.2
2023-05-31
- Several bug fixes:
- GWs: display of maps + notifications
- Flexible custom observatory names
- FLaapLUC alerts
2.4.1
2023-05-29
- Added IceCat-1 to cone search results
- Improved links to external platforms: reordered and shorter list for non-science mode + added link to TreasureMap
- Improved observability assessment: dedicated calculation for Victor M. Blanco telescope + fixed bug related to custom observer location names
- Various minor bug fixes and improvements
2.4.0
2023-04-27
- Improved user management and sign-up screens
- Use of GPS location for the observability assessment
- Searching for events via the manual cone search now returns the full event information
- Preparations for the O4 gravitational wave observation run
- New notification streams for ‘significant alerts’ + ‘NS/NSBH events’
- More event parameters displayed
2.3.0
2023-03-12
- Enabled zooming of images
- Added GBM lightcurves
- Bug fixes
- Fink cone search radius updated
- Link to AAVSO improved
2.2.0
2023-02-03
- improved backend (new VoEvent architecture, improved observability assessement, etc.)
- improved notifications: identify event updates
- new alert stream and new observatory: GRB detections by GECAM
- added IceCube event displays
- bug fixes
- visibility windows missing on the observability plot in some (rare) cases
- re-enabled non-https urls on mobile devices
2.0.0
2022-09-02
- Major upgrade of the web interface at www.astro-colibri.com
- Added direct link to the Living Swift-XRT Point Source Catalogue
- Bug fixes and improvements (e.g. update of SWift alerts)
1.4.2
2022-06-10
Added search for ATELs
Bug fixes:
- event filtering in the web frontend
- treatment of non-GRB alerts by Swift
1.4.1
2022-05-19
Onboarding/tutorial added.
New notification stream for bright (mag inferior to 18) optical transients.
Event information improved: additional parameters displayed, link to ALADIN includes uncertainty region, link to AAVSO light curves and TACH/GCN, viewer.
Selection of date for visibility plot.
Switch to and from the legend improved.
1.4.0
2022-03-07
- Enabling the definition and management of custom observatories
- Updated source catalog to 4FGL-DR3 and latest TevCat
- Additional information (SNe alerts from the SuperK neutrino detector, new observatory locations, source redshift information, etc.)
1.3.0
2022-01-12
Added optical transients (SNe, novae, CVs, etc.) incl. new notification streams
Updated marker styles
Improved search for sources (cf. manual cone search)
Added various new links to external services: weather information, sky view, ASAS-SN, Pan-STARRS, Gaia
1.2.1
2021-11-04
- added a catalog of SGRs and AXPs to the cone search
- transients highlighted in cone search results
- several corner cases for the daily visibility plot fixed (e.g. darktime around noon UTC, observations covering several days)
1.1.1
2021-09-28
- Fixed bug in user registration
- Setting time to UTC