The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS)
Abstract
We give an overview of the current status and scientific goals of VERITAS, a proposed hexagonal array of seven 10 m aperture imaging Cherenkov telescopes. The selected site is Montosa Canyon (1390 m a.s.l.) at the Whipple Observatory, Arizona. Each telescope, of 12 m focal length, will initially be equipped with a 499 element photomultiplier camera covering a 3.5 degree field of view. A central station will initiate the readout of 500 MHz FADCs upon receipt of multiple telescope triggers. The minimum detectable flux sensitivity will be 0.5% of the Crab Nebula flux at 200 GeV. Detailed simulations of the array's performance are presented elsewhere at this meeting. VERITAS will operate primarily as a gamma-ray observatory in the 50 GeV to 50 TeV range for the study of active galaxies, supernova remnants, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9907248,
title = {The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS)},
author = {S. M. Bradbury and I. H. Bond and A. C. Breslin and J. H. Buckley and D. A. Carter-Lewis and M. Catanese and S. Criswell and B. L. Dingus and D. J. Fegan and J. P. Finley and J. Gaidos and J. Grindlay and A. M. Hillas and K. Harris and G. Hermann and P. Kaaret and D. Kieda and J. Knapp and F. Krennrich and S. LeBohec and R. W. Lessard and J. Lloyd-Evans and B. McKernan and D. Mueller and R. Ong and J. J. Quenby and J. Quinn and G. Rochester and H. J. Rose and M. Salamon and G. H. Sembroski and T. Sumner and S. Swordy and V. V. Vassiliev and T. C. Weekes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9907248},
year = {2010}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures, to be published in the proceedings of the 26th ICRC (Salt Lake City, 1999)