ACME Multimessenger Citizen Science: Training Event for Amateur Astronomers

Online, 10th June 2025

Would you like to help search for some of the most extreme astronomical phenomena in the Universe? Multimessenger astrophysics uses coordinated observations of short-lived 'transient' astronomical events, combining visual data from telescopes with gravitational waves, gamma rays, and neutrino particles from the explosive activity, death, and merging of stars and black holes!

This hands-on virtual workshop aims to allow the amateur astronomy community to engage with professional multi-messenger research communities and to learn about tools they can use to contribute to astrophysics research on multimessenger & transient events through citizen science. The workshop will consist of talks, demonstrations and hands-on tutorials from both professional and amateur astronomers to inform the amateur astronomy community on best practices, get them accustomed to what the research community needs in terms of data, and explore the tools available to capture/store/utilise that data. There are no requirements to take part beyond having access to a telescope (of any size) and, of course, enthusiasm!

Registration opens on 17th March 2025 and remains open until 6th June 2025. If you would like to contribute a talk, demonstration, or hands-on tutorial, then please submit an abstract by 17th April 2025. The finalised programme will be published closer to the event. There is no registration fee for this meeting.

This free event is hosted by ACME (the Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe), which aims to provide wider, simplified, and more efficient access to the best research infrastructures available to researchers in the astronomy and astroparticle physics communities.

Invited Speakers:

• Bernardo Cornejo (IRFU, CEA Paris-Saclay, France)
• Jean-Paul Goddard (Observatoire de Gravelle, France)
• Ilja Jaroschewski (IRFU, CEA Paris-Saclay, France)
• Thierry Midavaine (SAF, France)
• Renaud Savalle (DIO, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, France)
• Fabian Schüssler (IRFU, CEA Paris-Saclay, France)
• Lukasz Wyrzykowski (Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland)

ACME project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101131928.