  The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) has been built
with the purpose of enabling near real-time coincidence searches using data
from leading multimessenger observatories and astronomical facilities. Its
mission is to evoke discovery of multimessenger astrophysical sources, exploit
these sources for purposes of astrophysics and fundamental physics, and explore
multimessenger datasets for evidence of multimessenger source population AMON
aims to promote the advancement of multimessenger astrophysics by allowing its
participants to study the most energetic phenomena in the universe and to help
answer some of the outstanding enigmas in astrophysics, fundamental physics,
and cosmology. The main strength of AMON is its ability to combine and analyze
sub-threshold data from different facilities. Such data cannot generally be
used stand-alone to identify astrophysical sources. The analyses algorithms
used by AMON can identify statistically significant coincidence candidates of
multimessenger events, leading to the distribution of AMON alerts used by
partner observatories for real-time follow-up that may identify and,
potentially, confirm the reality of the multimessenger association. We present
the science motivation, partner observatories, implementation and summary of
the current status of the AMON project.
