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History of the Site:The ANTARES (Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch) Collaboration is constructing a large area water Cherenkov detector in the deep Mediterranean Sea, optimised for the detection of muons from high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. ANTARES is constructing and deploying a detector with a surface area of 0.1 km2, a first step toward a kilometric scale detector. Up to date 10 lines are deployed and connected to the Junction Box, which relays data and power transmissions to a shore station in La Seyne-sur-Mer (France) via an electro-optical cable. The telescope will be completed in 2008 with the connection of the last 2 lines. The ANTARES detector also includes an instrumentation line (IL07) dedicated to pluridisciplinarity (concerning oceanography, biology or seismology). Connected in 2007, the IL07 is equipped with CTD probes (Sea-Bird SBE37SMP), ADCP current profilers, an Aanderaa oxygen optode, a sound velocimeter, CSTAR light transmissiometers, 2 video-monitoring cameras (for bioluminescent organisms) and acoustic sensors. The In situ oxygen Dynamics Autosampler (IODA6000 v3.0) will be deployed in 2008 on the ANTARES Line 12. |
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Parameters measured:Temperature, salinity, Pressure, Sv, Oxygen Concentration, Oxygen Consumption, Water Current, Light Transmission |
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Enhancement/Modifications planned within EuroSITES:Enhancement: IODA6000 to measure Oxygen consumption in the deep-waters. |
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Contacts:Principal Investigator: For ANTARES in EuroSITES: Christian Tamburini (christian.tamburini@univmed.fr) For ANTARES: John Carr (carr@cppm.in2p3.fr) Link to websites: |
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Links to related websites:http://antares.in2p3.fr | |||||||||
