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Gamma-ray observations ranging from hundreds of MeV to tens of TeV are a valuable tool for studying particle acceleration and diffusion within our galaxy. Supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, and star-forming regions are the main…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-19 Alisha Chromey

The possibility to use observations of lensed relativistic jets on very small angular scales to construct proper models of spiral lens galaxies and to independently determine the Hubble constant is considered. On the example of the system…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-14 T. I. Larchenkova , A. A. Lutovinov , N. S. Lyskova

The VERITAS gamma ray observatory (Amado, AZ, veritas.sao.arizona.edu) uses the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT) to study sources of Very High Energy (VHE: E > 100 GeV) gamma rays. Key science results from the first three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 D. B. Kieda

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (Swift) has been in operation for 18 years. The Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) onboard Swift was designed to capture the earliest optical/UV emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), spanning the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-28 S. R. Oates

The high mass X-ray binary LS I +61 303 has been observed over several months in 2006 and 2007 with the VERITAS array of imaging air-Cherenkov telescopes. A signal of high energy gamma rays with energies above 350 GeV is detected in several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-25 Gernot Maier

Many authors have predicted very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) both during the prompt phase and during the multi-component afterglow. To date, however, there has been no definitive detection of such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 D. Horan

The frequencies and phases of emission from extra-solar sources measured by Earth-bound observers are modulated by the motions of the observer with respect to the source, and through relativistic effects. These modulations depend critically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-13 M. Pitkin , S. Doolan , L. McMenamin , K. Wette

Given the possible repetitive nature of fast radio bursts (FRBs), their cosmological origin, and their high occurrence, detection of strongly lensed sources due to intervening galaxy lenses is possible with forthcoming radio surveys. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 Liang Dai , Wenbin Lu

Occultations, the covering up of one celestial body by another celestial body, have been used in astronomy for millennia to learn about the sun and moon. Since 2018, VERITAS has implemented a program to detect predicted asteroid…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Joshua Bartkoske , Anne Duerr , Dave Kieda

Clusters of galaxies are one of the few prominent classes of objects predicted to emit gamma rays not yet detected by satellites like EGRET or ground-based Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). The detection of Very High Energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 J. S. Perkins

The INTEGRAL Burst Alert System (IBAS) has been developed to detect and locate in real time the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) serendipitously observed by INTEGRAL. The IBAS software runs automatically at the INTEGRAL Science Data Centre (ISDC),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-22 Sandro Mereghetti

VERITAS is the high-sensitivity instrument of latest generation. It is often used for the short AGN monitoring exposures evenly distributed over entire observational season of a source of interest. Each of these exposures is long enough to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Dongqing Huang , Alexander Konopelko

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) searches for dark matter often perform observations in "wobble mode", i.e. collecting data from the signal region and from a corresponding background control region at the same time, enabling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Stefania Gori , Stefano Profumo , Bibhushan Shakya

The VERITAS telescope array has been operating smoothly since 2007, and has detected gamma-ray emission above 100 GeV from 40 astrophysical sources. These include blazars, pulsar wind nebulae, supernova remnants, gamma-ray binary systems, a…

We present the results of a program to monitor the structure of the radio emission in 42 $\gamma$-ray bright blazars (31 quasars and 11 BL Lac objects) with the VLBA at 43, 22, and occasionally 15 and 8.4 GHz, over the period from November…

The galaxy M82 has long been considered a promising target for VHE gamma-ray observations because of the compact starburst region in its core. Theoretical predictions have suggested it should be detectable by ground-based imaging Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Niklas Karlsson

We report the main results of our six year long intensive optical monitoring on blazars ON 231 (W Com), BL Lac, and 3C 273. Intensive optical monitoring is an indispensable tool to obtain well sampled light curves and thus to understand the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 G. Tosti , S. Ciprini , E. Massaro , M. Maesano , F. Montagni , R. Nesci

It is expected that the European Space Agency mission Gaia will make possible to determine coordinates in the optical domain of more than 500000 quasars. In 2006, a radio astrometry project was launched with the overall goal to make…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-22 Leonid Petrov

We present the results from an ultra-high-resolution 7mm Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) study of the relativistic jet in the BL Lacertae object OJ287 from 1995 to 2011 containing 136 total intensity images. Analysis of the image sequence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ivan Agudo , Alan P. Marscher , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Jose L. Gomez , Manel Perucho , B. Glenn Piner , Maria Rioja , Richard Dodson

The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is a wide-field telescope project focused on detecting optical counterparts to gravitational-wave sources. GOTO uses arrays of 40 cm unit telescopes (UTs) on a shared robotic mount,…