Astrophysics Center for Multimessenger Studies in Europe (ACME)

ACME (the Astrophysics Centre for Multi-messenger studies in Europe) addresses the EC Call to provide wider, simplified, and more efficient access to the best research infrastructures (RI) available to researchers in the astronomy and astroparticle physics communities. ACME is set up to realize an ambitious coordinated European-wide optimization of the accessibility and cohesion between multiple leading RI, offering access to instruments, data and expertise, focused on the new science of multi-messenger astrophysics. Multi-messenger astrophysics goes beyond traditional electromagnetic astronomical observations of the enormous variety of objects which make up our Universe. It focuses on those object classes at the limits of our understanding, which generate (potentially) detectable non-electromagnetic signals: cosmic rays, neutrinos, and gravitational waves.

The EAT group at HU will participate in and lead many aspects of the ACME efforts at improved exchange and analysis of real-time data stream. The tools and protocols developed will make it easier for astronomical facilities to communicate, while ensuring that data and results live up to FAIR standards.