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The Supernova Early Warning System

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Alec Habig and Kate Scholberg describe the Supernova Early Warning System (SNEWS), an international network of neutrino detectors set up to provide a fast alert to the astronomical community if the participating experiments detect the distinctive burst of neutrinos from a stellar core collapse in or near the Milky Way.

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Fig. 1: The detectors in the Supernova Early Warning System (SNEWS) network and their locations around the world.

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The authors thank the members of the SNEWS working group and the participating experiments. SNEWS has been supported by the National Science Foundation, currently by the ‘Windows on the Universe: The Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics’ programme.

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  1. University of Minnesota Duluth, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Duluth, MN, USA

    Alec Habig

  2. Duke University, Department of Physics, Durham, NC, USA

    Kate Scholberg

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Habig, A., Scholberg, K. The Supernova Early Warning System. Nat Rev Phys 2, 458–460 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-020-0221-5

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