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### KM3NeT Alert Types
The planned alert types include:
The alert types include:
* MeV Core-Collapse Supernova alerts (SNEWS), already online currently
* Multiplet alerts: Multiple neutrinos from one source within some time window (this suggests a potential neutrino source)
* High-Energy Neutrino alerts. Potential neutrinos from astrophysical sources. (The higher the energy, the higher the probability of it being of astrophysical origin)
* Any neutrinos correlated with external alerts
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### Alert Interfaces
The Alert receiving/sending is via the GCN (https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/). The Alert data will be the neutrino candidates in VOEvent format, which is the standard data format for experiments to report and communicate their observed transient celestial events facilitating for follow-ups. The alert distribution is done via Comet (https://comet.transientskp.org/en/stable/index.html) which is an implementation of the VOEvent transportation protocol.
(There are also others receivers that can be implemented but there are less convenient, e.g. the TNS for the optical alerts, the ZTF/LSST broker for the optical transients, the Fermi flare’s advocate for the Fermi blazar outbursts.)
For the public alerts, we will also submit the notice and circular (human in the loop) for the dissemination.
