Hi all,
I’m building NovaTrace (Starithm - Real-time Astronomical Event Intelligence Platform), a production platform that aggregates multi-messenger alerts from GCN in real time. Given the overlap with what alert brokers care about, particularly optical follow-up of GW and GRB events, I wanted to share it here and get honest feedback.
What it does right now:
- Consumes live GCN Kafka streams from Fermi, LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA, IceCube, Einstein Probe, SVOM, CHIME, and DSA-110
- Groups stream notices into canonical events with AI-generated summaries from notices + GCN circulars
- Extracts structured measurements from circulars (RA/Dec, fluence, spectral parameters, redshift, photometry) into a queryable database
- Interactive 3D sky map of recent events by position and type
- Searchable GCN circulars archive
Example event: https://starithm.ai/novatrace/events/GBM_794811435
Where I’d value input:
- NovaTrace currently doesn’t ingest ZTF/Rubin optical alerts — for GW follow-up, optical counterpart association seems like an obvious gap. Is that something useful to your workflows, or is it already well-covered by existing brokers? Boom notice type has been introduced a few days ago and has been integrated so anything new would be available, but would love to know other ways users expect the information.
- Would programmatic access to event data and circular extractions be useful?
- Any other streams or communities I should be talking to?
- We are also working on a cross matching engine which cross matches events from different brokers to consolidate to one event and add intelligence to it.
The goal is to fill the gaps with automation to make researchers 10x more efficient.
Thanks
Kusha