ANTARES (telescope)

42°48′N 6°10′E / 42.800°N 6.167°E / 42.800; 6.167

An artist illustration of the Antares neutrino detector and the Nautile.
For the star, see Antares.

ANTARES (Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch project) is a neutrino detector residing 2.5 km under the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Toulon, France. It is designed to be used as a directional neutrino telescope to locate and observe neutrino flux from cosmic origins in the direction of the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth, a complement to the South Pole neutrino detector IceCube that detects neutrinos from both hemispheres. The experiment is a recognized CERN experiment (RE6).[1][2] Other neutrino telescopes designed for use in the nearby area include the Greek NESTOR telescope and the Italian NEMO telescope, which are both in early design stages. The data taking of ANTARES was finished in February 2022, after 16 years of continuous operation.[3]

  1. ^ "Recognized Experiments at CERN". The CERN Scientific Committees. CERN. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  2. ^ "RE6/ANTARES : Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental Research". The CERN Experimental Programme. CERN. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  3. ^ The ANTARES adventure Archived 2022-05-17 at the Wayback Machine. — The ANTARES Collaboration official web-site.