Studying bioluminescence flashes with the ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope

Reeb N, Hutschenreuter S, Zehetner P, Ensslin T, Albert A, Alves S, André M, Anghinolfi M, Anton G, Ardid M, Aubert JJ, Aublin J, Baret B, Basa S, Belhorma B, Bendahman M, Bertin V, Biagi S, Bissinger M, Boumaaza J, Bouta M, Bouwhuis MC, Brânzaş H, Bruijn R, Brunner J, Busto J, Caiffi B, Capone A, Caramete L, Carr J, Carretero V, Celli S, Chabab M, Chau TN, El Moursli RC, Chiarusi T, Circella M, Coleiro A, Colomer-Molla M, Coniglione R, Coyle P, Creusot A, Díaz AF, de Wasseige G, Deschamps A, Distefano C, Di Palma I, Domi A, Donzaud C, Dornic D, Drouhin D, Eberl T, van Eeden T, El Khayati N, Enzenhöfer A, Fermani P, Ferrara G, Filippini F, Fusco L, Gatelet Y, Gay P, Glotin H, Gozzini S, Gracia Ruiz R, Graf K, Guidi C, Hallmann S, van Haren H, Heijboer AJ, Hello Y, Hernández-Rey JJ, Hößl J, Hofestädt J, Huang F, Illuminati G, James CW, Jisse-Jung B, de Jong M, de Jong P, Jongen M, Kadler M, Kalekin O, Katz U, Khan-Chowdhury NR, Kouchner A, Kreykenbohm I, Kulikovskiy V, Lahmann R, Le Breton R, Lefèvre D, Leonora E, Levi G, Lincetto M, Lopez-Coto D, Loucatos S, Maderer L, Manczak J, Marcelin M, Margiotta A, Marinelli A, Martínez-Mora JA, Melis K, Migliozzi P, Moussa A, Muller R, Nauta L, Navas S, Nezri E, Fearraigh B, Organokov M, Păvălaş GE, Pellegrino C, Perrin-Terrin M, Piattelli P, Pieterse C, Poirè C, Popa V, Pradier T, Randazzo N, Reck S, Riccobene G, Romanov A, Sánchez-Losa A, Salesa Greus F, Samtleben DF, Sanguineti M, Sapienza P, Schnabel J, Schumann J, Schüssler F, Spurio M, Stolarczyk T, Taiuti M, Tayalati Y, Tingay SJ, Vallage B, Van Elewyck V, Versari F, Viola S, Vivolo D, Wilms J, Zavatarelli S, Zegarelli A, Zornoza JD, Zúñiga J (2023)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 2023

Journal

Book Volume: 21

Pages Range: 734-760

Journal Issue: 11

DOI: 10.1002/lom3.10578

Abstract

We develop a novel technique to exploit the extensive data sets provided by underwater neutrino telescopes to gain information on bioluminescence in the deep sea. The passive nature of the telescopes gives us the unique opportunity to infer information on bioluminescent organisms without actively interfering with them. We propose a statistical method that allows us to reconstruct the light emission of individual organisms, as well as their location and movement. A mathematical model is built to describe the measurement process of underwater neutrino telescopes and the signal generation of the biological organisms. The Metric Gaussian Variational Inference algorithm is used to reconstruct the model parameters using photon counts recorded by photomultiplier tubes. We apply this method to synthetic data sets and data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope. The telescope is located 40 km off the French coast and fixed to the sea floor at a depth of 2475 m. The runs with synthetic data reveal that we can model the emitted bioluminescent flashes of the organisms. Furthermore, we find that the spatial resolution of the localization of light sources highly depends on the configuration of the telescope. Precise measurements of the efficiencies of the detectors and the attenuation length of the water are crucial to reconstruct the light emission. Finally, the application to ANTARES data reveals the first localizations of bioluminescent organisms using neutrino telescope data.

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Involved external institutions

Polytechnic University of Valencia / Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Spain (ES) Aix-Marseille University / Aix-Marseille Université France (FR) Université Paris-Sud France (FR) The National Center for Nuclear Energy, Sciences and Techniques (CNESTEN) Morocco (MA) National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) Mohammed V University (UMVA) / جامعة محمد الخامس‎ Morocco (MA) Mohammed First University / Université Mohammed Premier / جامعة محمد الأول Morocco (MA) FOM Foundation Netherlands (NL) Institute of Space Science (ISS) / Institutul de Științe Spațiale Romania (RO) Institute for Corpuscular Physics / Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) Spain (ES) Cadi Ayyad University / جامعة القاضي عياض‎ Morocco (MA) Université de Strasbourg (UDS) France (FR) Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe / Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l'univers (IRFU) France (FR) International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research Australia (AU) Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik / Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics Germany (DE) Universidad de Granada Spain (ES) Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) Netherlands (NL) Polytechnic University of Catalonia / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) / Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña Spain (ES) Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Germany (DE) UMR Géoazur - Campus Azur du CNRS France (FR) Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO) / Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie France (FR)

How to cite

APA:

Reeb, N., Hutschenreuter, S., Zehetner, P., Ensslin, T., Albert, A., Alves, S.,... Zúñiga, J. (2023). Studying bioluminescence flashes with the ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope. Limnology and Oceanography-Methods, 21(11), 734-760. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10578

MLA:

Reeb, Nico, et al. "Studying bioluminescence flashes with the ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope." Limnology and Oceanography-Methods 21.11 (2023): 734-760.

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