NOIRLab's Time Domain Capabilities

The era of large transient surveys and multi-messenger astronomy provides many exciting opportunities for new discoveries. However, the volume of alerts makes software automation imperative for object classification, prioritization, scheduling, and data reduction so that the community can get the most science from the new data. Therefore, the NSF's National OIR Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab: Rubin, Gemini, SOAR, CTIO, KPNO, and the Community Science and Data Center) aims to provide a full set of time-domain capabilities. Rubin Observatory's LSST will be the preeminent time-domain survey in the next decade. The ANTARES broker collects and classifies events, from ZTF currently and LSST in the future. NOIRLab has teamed up with the Las Cumbres Observatory to develop tools for automating transient follow-up and to incorporate the participating telescopes into the Astronomical Event Observatory Network (AEON). SOAR now has an "AEON", or queue, mode that makes use of the Las Cumbres scheduler and the 4-m Blanco telescope at CTIO will be added soon. Gemini is building new instruments, working on significant software upgrades to improve usability, implementing an automatic scheduler, and adding Gemini Observatory Archive connections and data reduction capabilities to time-domain workflows. Some data are now being reduced in real-time and are distributed via the NOIRLab and Gemini science archives. This presentation will focus largely on Gemini's capabilies and plans.