Hello, welcome to Authorea!

My name is Alberto and I wrote this short document to get you acquainted with Authorea. I am an Astronomerand Computer Scientist by training (I was a Postdoc at the Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics until 1 year ago) and with the help of some colleagues, I created Authorea - a collaborative writing platform for science.

I received today a request for using Authorea for documents porduced by the Thirty Meter Telescope Time-domain science definition team. You should have received an email notification to open this article. How does it work? Double click anywhere on the text to start writing. In addition to simple text you can also add text formatted in boldface, italic, and yes, math in LaTeX too: \(E = mc^{2}\)! Add images by drag’n’drop or click on the “Insert Figure” button.