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Located in southern Arizona, VERITAS is amongst the most sensitive detectors for astrophysical very high energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma rays and has been operational since April 2007. We highlight some recent results from VERITAS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-21 S. R. Patel

We present a catalog of results of gamma-ray observations made by VERITAS, published from 2008 to 2020. VERITAS is a ground based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope observatory located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO) in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-17 Sameer Patel , Gernot Maier , Philip Kaaret

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 Galactic Center has long been a region of interest for high-energy and very-high-energy observations. Many potential sources of GeV/TeV gamma-ray emission have been suggested, e.g., the accretion of matter onto the black hole, cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Beilicke

VERITAS, the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System, is an array of four 12 m diameter imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes for gamma-ray astronomy above 100 GeV currently in operation in Arizona. The VERITAS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 P. Cogan

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,…

VERITAS is one of the world's most sensitive detectors of astrophysical very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma rays. This observatory has operated for ~14 years, and nearly 7,000 hours of its observations have been targeted on active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-13 Wystan Benbow

VERITAS (the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is the next generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory that is being built in southern Arizona by a collaboration of ten institutions in Canada, Ireland, the U.K. and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Peter Cogan

VERITAS is an array of four imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes that observes gamma-ray sources in the very high energy range (VHE, E>100 GeV). A large fraction of the known gamma-ray sources are of extragalactic origin and belong to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Errando

VERITAS is a ground-based gamma-ray instrument operating at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in southern Arizona. With an array of four imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), VERITAS is designed to measure gamma rays with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Nahee Park

The recent discovery by the Pierre Auger collaboration of anisotropy in the arrival directions of the highest energy cosmic rays, correlated with the positions of nearby active galactic nuclei, encourages the search for counterpart TeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 J. Holder

The Galactic Center region hosts a variety of powerful astronomical sources and rare astrophysical processes that emit a large flux of non-thermal radiation. We present the analysis of the very-high-energy gamma-ray emission above 2 TeV of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 James L Ryan

VERITAS is an atmospheric Cherenkov telescope array designed to study astrophysi cal sources of very-high-energy gamma radiation. Located in southern Arizona, USA, the array consists of four 12m-diameter imaging Cherenkov telescopes. All…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-03 G. Maier

VERITAS, an array of imaging atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes, studies blazars in the energy range between ~100 GeV and ~30 TeV. With its excellent sensitivity at these energies, and ever-deepening source exposures, VERITAS is in a position…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Matthew Orr

The VERITAS IACT observatory has carried out an extensive survey of the Cygnus region between 67 and 82 degrees in galactic longitude and between -1 and 4 degrees in galactic latitude. This region is a natural choice for a Very High Energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Amanda Weinstein

The VERITAS array of 12-m atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes in southern Arizona is one of the world's most-sensitive detectors of very-high-energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma rays. More than 50 extragalactic sources are known to emit VHE photons;…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Errando

VERITAS is one of the world's most sensitive detectors of astrophysical VHE (E $>$ 100 GeV) gamma rays. This array of four 12-m imaging atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes has operated for 12 years, and $>$6,000 hours of observations have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-13 Wystan Benbow

VERITAS, an array of atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes sensitive to gamma rays in the very-high-energy range (VHE, E > 100 GeV), carries out an extensive multimessenger program focused on the search for electromagnetic counterparts to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-12 Marcos Santander

Due to its extraordinarily high concentration of known relativistic particle accelerators such as pulsar wind nebula, supernova remnants, dense molecular cloud regions, and the supermassive black hole (Sgr A*); the center of the Milky Way…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrew W. Smith