Science Highlights from VERITAS
Abstract
The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) is a ground-based array located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in southern Arizona and is one of the world's most sensitive gamma-ray instruments at energies of 85 GeV to 30 TeV. VERITAS has a wide scientific reach that includes the study of extragalactic and Galactic objects as well as the search for astrophysical signatures of dark matter and the measurement of cosmic rays. In this paper, we will summarize the current status of the VERITAS observatory and present some of the scientific highlights from the last two years, focusing in particular on those results shown at the 2015 ICRC in The Hague, Netherlands.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1510.01269,
title = {Science Highlights from VERITAS},
author = {D. Staszak and A. U. Abeysekara and S. Archambault and A. Archer and A. Barnacka and W. Benbow and R. Bird and J. Biteau and M. Buchovecky and J. H. Buckley and V. Bugaev and K. Byrum and J. V Cardenzana and M. Cerruti and X. Chen and J. L. Christiansen and L. Ciupik and E. Collins-Hughes and M. P. Connolly and P. Coppi and W. Cui and V. V. Dwarkadas and J. D. Eisch and M. Errando and A. Falcone and Q. Feng and M. Fernandez Alonso and J. P. Finley and H. Fleischhack and A. Flinders and P. Fortin and L. Fortson and A. Furniss and G. H. Gillanders and S. Griffin and S. T. Griffiths and G. Gyuk and M. Hütten and D. Hanna and J. Holder and T. B. Humensky and C. A. Johnson and P. Kaaret and P. Kar and M. Kertzman and Y. Khassen and D. Kieda and M. Krause and F. Krennrich and S. Kumar and M. J. Lang and G. Maier and S. McArthur and A. McCann and K. Meagher and P. Moriarty and R. Mukherjee and T. Nguyen and D. Nieto and A. O'Faoláin de Bhróithe and R. A. Ong and A. N. Otte and D. Pandel and N. Park and V. Pelassa and J. S. Perkins and M. Pohl and A. Popkow and E. Pueschel and J. Quinn and K. Ragan and P. T. Reynolds and G. T. Richards and E. Roache and A. C. Rovero and M. Santander and S. Schlenstedt and G. H. Sembroski and K. Shahinyan and A. W. Smith and I. Telezhinsky and J. V. Tucci and J. Tyler and V. V. Vassiliev and S. Vincent and S. P. Wakely and O. M. Weiner and A. Weinstein and A. Wilhelm and D. A. Williams and B. Zitzer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.01269},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To appear in the Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), The Hague, The Netherlands