Today, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations have announced the detection of a new gravitational wave event, GW170817, which constitutes the first time that a binary neutron star merger has been detected with the LIGO-Virgo observatories. This unique observation is even more compelling since the same collision was seen by the Fermi […]
Yearly archives: 2017
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The 2017 Physics Nobel Prize has been attributed to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne for the observation of gravitational waves, a discovery announced on February 11th, 2016. The ANTARES Collaboration congratulates their pioneering work, and the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration for this award. The ANTARES Collaboration was happy to participate […]
On September 22nd, the first ORCA detection unit, on the french KM3NeT site, 40 km offshore Toulon, came online with more than 500 photomultiplier tubes. The ANTARES Collaboration congratulates the KM3NeT Collaboration for this great achievement ! More information on the KM3NeT website. Below are two views of one of the first reconstructed event […]