Status of the VERITAS Observatory
Astrophysics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
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.
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@article{arxiv.0810.0474,
title = {Status of the VERITAS Observatory},
author = {J. Holder and V. A. Acciari and E. Aliu and T. Arlen and M. Beilicke and W. Benbow and S. M. Bradbury and J. H. Buckley and V. Bugaev and Y. Butt and K. L. Byrum and A. Cannon and O. Celik and A. Cesarini and L. Ciupik and Y. C. K. Chow and P. Cogan and P. Colin and W. Cui and M. K. Daniel and T. Ergin and A. D. Falcone and S. J. Fegan and J. P. Finley and G. Finnegan and P. Fortin and L. F. Fortson and A. Furniss and G. H. Gillanders and J. Grube and R. Guenette and G. Gyuk and D. Hanna and E. Hays and D. Horan and C. M. Hui and T. B. Humensky and A. Imran and P. Kaaret and N. Karlsson and M. Kertzman and D. B. Kieda and J. Kildea and A. Konopelko and H. Krawczynski and F. Krennrich and M. J. Lang and S. LeBohec and G. Maier and A. McCann and M. McCutcheon and P. Moriarty and R. Mukherjee and T. Nagai and J. Niemiec and R. A. Ong and D. Pandel and J. S. Perkins and M. Pohl and J. Quinn and K. Ragan and L. C. Reyes and P. T. Reynolds and H. J. Rose and M. Schroedter and G. H. Sembroski and A. W. Smith and D. Steele and S. P. Swordy and J. A. Toner and L. Valcarcel and V. V. Vassiliev and R. Wagner and S. P. Wakely and J. E. Ward and T. C. Weekes and A. Weinstein and R. J. White and D. A. Williams and S. A. Wissel and M. Wood and B. Zitzer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0474},
year = {2009}
}
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Submitted to Proceedings of "4th Heidelberg International Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy 2008"