NOIRLab's Time Domain Capabilities

The era of large transient surveys (e.g. Catalina, Pan-STARRS, ZTF, and especially LSST) and multi-messenger astronomy provides many exciting opportunities for new discoveries and understanding of the variable sky. However, the volume of alerts make software automation imperative for object classification, prioritization, scheduling, and data reduction so that the community can get the most science from the new discoveries. Therefore, the NSF's National OIR Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab: Rubin, Gemini, SOAR, CTIO, KPNO, and the Community Science and Data Center) provides 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 and LSST in the future. NOIRLab is teaming 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 has a continuing effort to increase automation of the observing process. Gemini is building new instruments and working on significant software upgrades to improve usability and implement an automatic scheduler. Some data are now being reduced in real-time and is distributed via the NOIRLab and Gemini science archives. This presentation will describe these capabilities and future plans.