The Galactic Center Region Imaged by VERITAS from 2010-2012
Abstract
The galactic center (GC) has long been a region of interest for high-energy and very-high-energy observations. Many potential sources of GeV/TeV gamma-ray emission are located in the GC region, e.g. the accretion of matter onto the central black hole, cosmic rays from a nearby shell-type super nova remnant, or the annihilation of dark matter. The GC has been detected at MeV/GeV energies by EGRET and recently by Fermi/LAT. At TeV energies, the GC was detected at the level of 4 standard deviations with the Whipple 10m telescope and with one order of magnitude better sensitivity by H.E.S.S. and MAGIC. We present the results from 3 years of VERITAS GC observations conducted at large zenith angles. The results are compared to astrophysical models.
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@article{arxiv.1210.7832,
title = {The Galactic Center Region Imaged by VERITAS from 2010-2012},
author = {M. Beilicke and the VERITAS Collaboration},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.7832},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, conference proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma2012)