SNEWS: the SuperNova Early Warning System
Pietro Antonioli et al 2004 New J. Phys. 6 114 doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/6/1/114
Pietro Antonioli1, Richard Tresch Fienberg2, Fabrice Fleurot3, Yoshiyuki Fukuda4, Walter Fulgione5, Alec Habig6, Jaret Heise7, Arthur B McDonald8, Corrinne Mills9,13, Toshio Namba10, Leif J Robinson2, Kate Scholberg11,14, Michael Schwendener3, Roger W Sinnott2, Blake Stacey11, Yoichiro Suzuki10, Réda Tafirout3,15, Carlo Vigorito5, Brett Viren12, Clarence Virtue3 and Antonino Zichichi1
1 University of Bologna and INFN Bologna, Via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna, Italy
2 Sky & Telescope, 49 Bay State Road, Cambridge, MA 02138-1200, USA
3 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ont. P3E 2C6, Canada
4 Department of Physics, Miyagi University of Education, Sendai, Miyagi 980-0845, Japan
5 IFSI-CNR Torino, University of Torino and INFN Torino, Via P Giuria 1, 10125 Torino, Italy
6 Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN 55812-2496, USA
7 Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
8 Department of Physics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont. K7L 3N6, Canada
9 Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
10 Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
11 Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
12 Brookhaven National Laboratory, PO Box 5000, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA
13 Current address: Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
14 Author to whom all correspondence should be addressed.
15 Current address: Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A7, Canada.
E-mail: schol@mit.eduPart of Focus on Neutrino Physics
Abstract.
This paper provides a technical description of the SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS), an international network of experiments with the goal of providing an early warning of a galactic supernova.
Received 1 May 2004
Published 1 September 2004
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