2.5.1
2023-07-05
- GWs
- Fixed loading of GW contours
- Dedicated configuration for GW scheduling with H.E.S.S.
- Improved account deletion procedure
2.5.0
2023-06-21
- Gravitational wave follow-up
- https://tilepy.com: new cloud-based API to calculate optimized follow-up schedule
- Access directly from the app
- Results integrated in event list and map
- Improved definition of custom observatories + more parameters
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
2.4.2
2023-05-31
- Several bug fixes:
- GWs: display of maps + notifications
- Flexible custom observatory names
- FLaapLUC alerts
2.4.1
2023-05-29
- Added IceCat-1 to cone search results
- Improved links to external platforms: reordered and shorter list for non-science mode + added link to TreasureMap
- Improved observability assessment: dedicated calculation for Victor M. Blanco telescope + fixed bug related to custom observer location names
- Various minor bug fixes and improvements
2.4.0
2023-04-27
- Improved user management and sign-up screens
- Use of GPS location for the observability assessment
- Searching for events via the manual cone search now returns the full event information
- Preparations for the O4 gravitational wave observation run
- New notification streams for ‘significant alerts’ + ‘NS/NSBH events’
- More event parameters displayed
2.3.0
2023-03-12
- Enabled zooming of images
- Added GBM lightcurves
- Bug fixes
- Fink cone search radius updated
- Link to AAVSO improved
2.2.0
2023-02-03
- improved backend (new VoEvent architecture, improved observability assessement, etc.)
- improved notifications: identify event updates
- new alert stream and new observatory: GRB detections by GECAM
- added IceCube event displays
- bug fixes
- visibility windows missing on the observability plot in some (rare) cases
- re-enabled non-https urls on mobile devices
2.1.2
2022-12-21
- Change of time range now directly affecting cone search results
- Changed color for flares identified by FLAAPLUC
- Bug fixes
- Filtering of cone search results
2.1.1
2022-12-08
- Improved creation of figures (bug fix + performance increase)
- New menu entry for contact and additional information
- Bug fixes
- Autocompletion of multiple detected sources
- Shifts in the timeline
2.1.0
2022-12-01
Improved performance: new cloud computing architecture + avoid recalculation of existing figures + reduced refreshes of the frontend
- Added a new alert stream: GeV flares from AGN detected by Fermi-LAT via the FLaapLUC pipeline (incl. new figures showing the latest results)
- Support for different coordinate systems (Ecliptic and Galactic) and different projections (Hammer-Aitoff, Mollweide, Mercator)
- Addition of a figure showing the Swift-XRT lightcurve for GRBs detected by Swift in the context of archival and VHE detected GRBs
- Added manual cone searches and ATEL search to the smartphone apps
- Improvements
- Zoom in the latest transients map now triggers a cone search in that region
- Increased available archival transients: GRBs from Swift, Fermi and INTEGRAL since Jan/2016 + all public IceCube neutrino alerts + all public HAWC and IceCube-HAWC alerts
- Selection/deselection of all observatories or event types
- Added link to ZTF viewer ‘SNAD’ + ALeRCE + improved link to FINK
- Onboarding more interactive
- Improved API documentation
2.0.0
2022-09-02
- Major upgrade of the web interface at www.astro-colibri.com
- Added direct link to the Living Swift-XRT Point Source Catalogue
- Bug fixes and improvements (e.g. update of SWift alerts)
1.4.2
2022-06-10
Added search for ATELs
Bug fixes:
- event filtering in the web frontend
- treatment of non-GRB alerts by Swift
1.4.1
2022-05-19
Onboarding/tutorial added.
New notification stream for bright (mag inferior to 18) optical transients.
Event information improved: additional parameters displayed, link to ALADIN includes uncertainty region, link to AAVSO light curves and TACH/GCN, viewer.
Selection of date for visibility plot.
Switch to and from the legend improved.
1.4.0
2022-03-07
- Enabling the definition and management of custom observatories
- Updated source catalog to 4FGL-DR3 and latest TevCat
- Additional information (SNe alerts from the SuperK neutrino detector, new observatory locations, source redshift information, etc.)
1.3.0
2022-01-12
Added optical transients (SNe, novae, CVs, etc.) incl. new notification streams
Updated marker styles
Improved search for sources (cf. manual cone search)
Added various new links to external services: weather information, sky view, ASAS-SN, Pan-STARRS, Gaia
1.2.1
2021-11-04
- added a catalog of SGRs and AXPs to the cone search
- transients highlighted in cone search results
- several corner cases for the daily visibility plot fixed (e.g. darktime around noon UTC, observations covering several days)
1.2.0
2021-10-22
Added description of transients for the general public
Galactic plane added to sky maps
Added direct link to the science portal of the Fink ZTF/LSST broker
Check for existence of external links
Removed Fermi-GBM flight notices
Design and layouts improvements + minor bug fixes
Mobile app: new settings menu
Web app: re-organisation of visibility plots + display adapted to different screen sizes
1.1.1
2021-09-28
- Fixed bug in user registration
- Setting time to UTC
1.1
2021-09-22
- Improved cone search that is flexible fo futur improvements
- Filtering settings are now synchronized between devices
- Added a legend for the events
- Various minor bug fixes