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The ANTARES experiment has been running in its final configuration since 2008. It is the largest neutrino telescope in the Northern hemisphere. A major goal of neutrino telescopes is the search for astrophysical neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range coming from resolved Galactic and extra Galactic sources or due to a diffuse cosmic neutrino flux.
In this kind of searches, a special role is played by the multimessenger approach. The search for time/space coincidence between neutrino telescope events and signals registered with other detectors increases the sensitivity of the analyses, significantly reducing the background. Interesting results have been obtained in collaboration with several different experiments sensitive on a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum and, recently, limits have been set on the neutrino flux emitted with the gravitational waves event measured by the LIGO/VIRGO detectors on last September 15, 2015.
The discovery of a cosmic neutrino diffuse flux by the IceCube detector has made the search for its origin a key mission in high-energy astrophysics. Despite the reduced size, the ANTARES telescope is able to constrain the origin of the IceCube excess from regions extended up to 0.2 sr in the Southern sky. Though the golden channel for source searches is the identification of muons from charged current events of muon neutrinos, where angular resolution better than 1 degree can be obtained thanks to the excellent optical properties of the sea water, promising results have been obtained from the analysis of events with different topologies.
ANTARES has also provided results on atmospheric neutrinos, searches for rare particles (such as magnetic monopoles and nuclearites in the cosmic radiation), Dark Matter and Earth and Sea science.
A general survey of the most recent studies performed with ANTARES will be presented and discussed.
