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## KM3NeT Multi-Messenger Alerts
KM3NeT will be integrated a part of the global multi-messenger community, we will (soon) be able to: 1) to receive external alerts (from GCN https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/ which ) and search for correlated neutrinos in KM3NeT. 2) to send neutrino alerts that we observe in KM3NeT and send them out to external experiments for external follow-up.
KM3NeT will be integrated a part of the global multi-messenger community, we will (soon) be able to:
* 1) to receive external alerts, i.e. alerts generated by external experiments (e.g. gravitatinal waves alerts from LIGO/Virgo, neutrino alerts from other neutrino experiments) via GCN https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/) and conduct search for correlated neutrinos in KM3NeT.
* 2) to send neutrino alerts (to GCN) that we observe in KM3NeT, including multiplet alerts, possible astrophysical neutrinos, any correlated neutrinos we find in the above correlation search. The alerts will be used for external experiments to conduct their correlation search/follow-up.
# Alert Types
## Alert Types
The planned alert types include:
* Multiplet alerts: Multiple neutrinos from one source within some time window, suggesting a potential neutrino source)
* High-Energy Neutrino alerts: potential neutrinos from astrophysical sources. (The higher the energy, the higher the probablity of it being of astrophysical origin)
* Other alerts to be defined
# Alert short description use, data description, interfaces
* Any neutrinos correlated with external alerts
* Other alerts to be defined, or more subcategories divided from the High-Energy Neutrino alerts if necessary (e.g. track HE, cascade HE alerts)
## Alert Data/Interfaces
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.
