Studying Bioluminescence Flashes with the ANTARES Deep Sea Neutrino Telescope
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 the neutrino detectors. 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 reliably 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 precise localizations of bioluminescent organisms using neutrino telescope data.
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@article{arxiv.2107.08063,
title = {Studying Bioluminescence Flashes with the ANTARES Deep Sea Neutrino Telescope},
author = {N. Reeb and S. Hutschenreuter and P. Zehetner and T. Ensslin and S. Alves and M. André and M. Anghinolfi and G. Anton and M. Ardid and J. -J. Aubert and J. Aublin and B. Baret and S. Basa and B. Belhorma and M. Bendahman and V. Bertin and S. Biagi and M. Bissinger and J. Boumaaza and M. Bouta and M. C. Bouwhuis and H. Brânzaş and R. Bruijn and J. Brunner and J. Busto and B. Caiffi and A. Capone and L. Caramete and J. Carr and V. Carretero and S. Celli and M. Chabab and T. N. Chau and R. Cherkaoui El Moursli and T. Chiarusi and M. Circella and A. Coleiro and M. Colomer-Molla and R. Coniglione and P. Coyle and A. Creusot and A. F. Díaz and G. de Wasseige and A. Deschamps and C. Distefano and I. Di Palma and A. Domi and C. Donzaud and D. Dornic and D. Drouhin and T. Eberl and T. van Eeden and N. El Khayati and A. Enzenhöfer and P. Fermani and G. Ferrara and F. Filippini and L. Fusco and Y. Gatelet and P. Gay and H. Glotin and R. Gozzini and R. Gracia Ruiz and K. Graf and C. Guidi and S. Hallmann and H. van Haren and A. J. Heijboer and Y. Hello and J. J. Hernández-Rey and J. Hößl and J. Hofestädt and F. Huang and G. Illuminati and C. W. James and B. Jisse-Jung and M. d. Jong and P. d. Jong and M. Jongen and M. Kadler and O. Kalekin and U. Katz and N. R. Khan-Chowdhury and A. Kouchner and I. Kreykenbohm and V. Kulikovskiy and R. Lahmann and R. Le Breton and D. Lefèvre and E. Leonora and G. Levi and M. Lincetto and D. Lopez-Coto and S. Loucatos and L. Maderer and J. Manczak and M. Marcelin and A. Margiotta and A. Marinelli and J. A. Martínez-Mora and K. Melis and P. Migliozzi and A. Moussa and R. Muller and L. Nauta and S. Navas and E. Nezri and B. Ó Fearraigh and M. Organokov and G. E. Păvălaş and C. Pellegrino and M. Perrin-Terrin and P. Piattelli and C. Pieterse and C. Poirè and V. Popa and T. Pradier and N. Randazzo and S. Reck and G. Riccobene and A. Romanov and A. Sánchez-Losa and F. Salesa Greus and D. F. E. Samtleben and M. Sanguineti and P. Sapienza and J. Schnabel and J. Schumann and F. Schüssler and M. Spurio and Th. Stolarczyk and M. Taiuti and Y. Tayalati and S. J. Tingay and B. Vallage and V. Van Elewyck and F. Versari and S. Viola and D. Vivolo and J. Wilms and S. Zavatarelli and A. Zegarelli and J. D. Zornoza and J. Zúñiga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.08063},
year = {2021}
}