Speaker
Bruny Baret Baret
(CNRS)
Description
The ANTARES Collaboration is now operating the largest water Cherenkov neutrino
telescope in the world. The apparatus, consisting of 12 detection lines and a
multidisciplinary instrumentation line installed at a depth of about 2500m in the
Mediterranean Sea offshore from France, has been completed in May 2008.
The main scientific goal of ANTARES is the search for high energy neutrinos coming
from astrophysical sources, mainly compact sources. Some of these cosmic source
candidates are expected to emit optical, gamma-ray, cosmic rays and/or gravitational
wave signals. In this context, multi-messenger programs have been developed in
ANTARES, in connection with other experiments, among which externally triggered
neutrino-searches (e.g. for AGN flares), neutrino-triggered optical follow-up activities
(TAToO), the search for neutrinos in coincidence with gravitational wave bursts
detected by LIGO/Virgo (GW+HEN) or searches for neutrino counterparts of high
energy gamma-ray signals (e.g. the so called FERMI bubbles). This talk will focus on
the multi-messenger strategies conceived in the Collaboration and present the latest
associated results.
Primary author
Bruny Baret Baret
(CNRS)
