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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 116, 2016
Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope (VLVnT-2015)
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Article Number | 10003 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Multi-Messengers Research | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611610003 | |
Published online | 11 April 2016 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611610003
Follow-up of high energy neutrinos detected by the ANTARES telescope
Aix Marseille Università, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM UMR 7346, 13288 Marseille, France
a e-mail: amathieu@cppm.in2p3.fr
Published online: 11 April 2016
The ANTARES telescope is well-suited to detect high energy neutrinos produced in astrophysical transient sources as it can observe a full hemisphere of the sky with a high duty cycle. Potential neutrino sources are gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and flaring active galactic nuclei. To enhance the sensitivity of ANTARES to such sources, a detection method based on follow-up observations from the neutrino direction has been developed. This program, denoted as TAToO, includes a network of robotic optical telescopes (TAROT, Zadko and MASTER) and the Swift-XRT telescope, which are triggered when an “interesting” neutrino is detected by ANTARES. A follow-up of special events, such as neutrino doublets in time/space coincidence or a single neutrino having a very high energy or in the specific direction of a local galaxy, significantly improves the perspective for the detection of transient sources. The analysis of early and long term follow-up observations to search for fast and slowly varying transient sources, respectively, has been performed and the results covering optical and X-ray data are presented in this contribution.
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