Optical follow-up of high energy neutrinos detected by the ANTARES telescope

Details Optical follow-up of high energy neutrinos detected by the ANTARES telescope Optical follow-up of high energy neutrinos detected by the ANTARES telescope

Dec 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011sf2a.conf..615v&link_type=abstract

SF2A-2011: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics Eds.: G. Alecian, K. Belkacem,

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Neutrino Astronomy, Transient Sources, Optical Follow-Up

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The ANTARES Collaboration has completed in 2008 the deployment of what is currently the largest high energy cosmic neutrino detector in the Northern hemisphere, covering a volume of about 0.01 km^3. To enhance the sensitivity of the ANTARES detector to transient sources, such as Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs), Core Collapse Super Novae (CCSN), flaring active galactic nuclei (AGN) and microquasars, a method based on coincident observations of neutrinos and optical signals has been set up. The observation is triggered whenever a high energy singlet or a burst of neutrinos event in space and time coincidence is detected by the ANTARES telescope: the selection of events is such that alerts are sent with a frequency of about twice per month. The system is operational since 2009 and since then, about 40 alerts have been sent to the telescopes network, about 30 of them being followed. The optical follow-up system will be described and first results on the optical images analysis searching for GRBs will be presented.

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