Filter GCN Circulars based on the type of event

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Filter GCN Circulars based on the type of event #816

Open lpsinger opened 1 year ago

lpsinger commented 1 year ago

From webinar:

Will there be any way to easily filter the GCNs based on the type of event? More specifically, currently there are > 500 GCNs from the start of the year focused on GRBs. I would for example like to receive (or esily filter out) only the GCNs that will be related to GWs.

jracusin commented 1 year ago

We should have subject keyword filtering for the following categories that users can opt into/out of:

all circulars
GRB
GW (might also say LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA)
Neutrino (might also say IceCube/ANTARES/KM3NET)

Note that some circulars will contain multiple of these keywords and should appear in both.

Vidushi-GitHub commented 1 year ago

Also we should add the toggle option for receiving the emails of GCN circulars for different categories: GW, GRB or Neutrino.

jracusin commented 7 months ago

Acceptance Criteria:

Based on keyword rules in circular subjects, categorize them automatically to one or more of GRB, GW, Neutrino, SGR, and others that don't fit those rules
Add ability to toggle between these categorizations and all in the circulars archive
Add email subscription rules to subscribe to all or a subset of these classes
Update documentation on circular subscription to explain this capability
Add to documentation the details of these keywords and how to suggest additional ones
Advertise this capability

sarabuson commented 1 week ago

This is becoming more challenging, as several more teams are now issuing a non negligible number of alerts per day through GCN, mostly related to GRBs (e.g., optical teams, EP etc).

I would suggest considering this filtering among the higher-priority features, as it helps optimize GCN-users time and reduce the carbon footprint: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/31/concerned-about-your-data-use-here-is-the-carbon-footprint-of-an-average-day-of-emails-whatsapps-and-more

Ideally, there would be an option to subscribe to GCNs based on keywords, allowing users to specify one or more keywords to filter the alerts they wish to receive. Besides the subject, I would suggest to also parse the overall text (both lower and upper case) in order to catch follow-up observations. For instance, the following could filter neutrino-related alerts: "neutrino", "IceCube", "Km3NeT", "Baikal-GVD" etc

lpsinger commented 1 week ago

@sarabuson, this is already the highest priority item that we are working on.