Status of the VERITAS Observatory

VERITAS, an Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) system for gammma-ray astronomy in the GeV-TeV range, has recently completed its first season of observations with a full array of four telescopes. A number of astrophysical gamma-ray sources have been detected, both galactic and extragalact...

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Veröffentlicht in:	AIP conference proceedings 2009-01, Vol.1085 (1), p.657-660
Hauptverfasser:	Holder, J, Acciari, V A, Aliu, E, Arlen, T, Beilicke, M, Benbow, W, Bradbury, S M, Buckley, J H, Bugaev, V, Butt, Y, Byrum, K L, Cannon, A, Celik, O, Cesarini, A, Ciupik, L, Chow, Y C K, Cogan, P, Colin, P, Cui, W
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ASTRONOMY ASTROPHYSICS ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES GALAXY NUCLEI GAMMA RADIATION GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE GEV RANGE TELESCOPES TEV RANGE
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Zusammenfassung:	VERITAS, an Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) system for gammma-ray astronomy in the GeV-TeV range, has recently completed its first season of observations with a full array of four telescopes. A number of astrophysical gamma-ray sources have been detected, both galactic and extragalactic, including sources previously unknown at TeV energies. We describe the status of the array and some highlight results, and assess the technical performance, sensitivity and shower reconstruction capabilities.
ISSN:	0094-243X 1551-7616
DOI:	10.1063/1.3076760