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Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (SF2A 2009), Besançon : France (2009)
Search for neutrinos from transient sources with the ANTARES telescope and optical follow-up observations
I. Al Samarai 1, D. Dornic 1, S. Basa 2, A. Klotz 3, 4, V. Bertin 1, M. Boer 4, J. Brunner 1, J. Busto 1, S. Escoffier 1, B. Gendre 2, A. Mazure 2, B. Vallage 5
ANTARES Collaboration(s)
(2009)

The ANTARES telescope has the opportunity to detect transient neutrino sources, such as gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae, flares of active galactic nuclei... To enhance the sensitivity to these sources, we have developed a new detection method based on the optical follow-up of “golden” neutrino events such as neutrino doublets coincident in time and space or single neutrinos of very high energy. The ANTARES Collaboration has therefore developed a very fast on-line reconstruction with a good angular resolution. These characteristics allow to trigger an optical telescope network; since February 2009, ANTARES is sending alert trigger one or two times per month to the two 25 cm robotic telescope of TAROT. This optical follow-up of such special events would not only give access to the nature of the sources but also improves the sensitivity for transient neutrino sources
1 :  Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM)
CNRS : UMR7346 – IN2P3 – Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille II
2 :  Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM)
CNRS : UMR6110 – INSU – Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I
3 :  Centre d'étude spatiale des rayonnements (CESR)
CNRS : UMR5187 – Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées – INSU – Université Paul Sabatier [UPS] - Toulouse III
4 :  Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP)
CNRS : USR2207 – INSU – Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I
5 :  Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (ex DAPNIA) (IRFU)
CEA : DSM/IRFU
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