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Multimessenger studies with the VERITAS Atmospheric Cherenkov Observatory

The VERITAS gamma-ray observatory has an active multimessenger program, currently focused on studying the connection between very-high-energy gamma rays and the astrophysical neutrino flux recently discovered by the IceCube telescope. As…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2019-08-13 M. Santander

The Camera Calibration Strategy of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground based observatory in very high energy gamma ray astronomy. The facility will achieve a wide energy coverage, starting from a threshold of a few tens of GeV up to…

天体物理仪器与方法 · 物理学 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel , M. Gaug , P. Majumdar

Optimizing the Wasserstein GAN for TeV Gamma Ray Detection with VERITAS

The observation of very-high-energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma rays is mediated by the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique (IACTs). At these energies, gamma rays interact with the atmosphere to create a cascade of electromagnetic air…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2023-09-22 Deivid Ribeiro , Yuping Zheng , Ramana Sankar , Kameswara Mantha

The First VERITAS Telescope

The first atmospheric Cherenkov telescope of VERITAS (the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) has been in operation since February 2005. We present here a technical description of the instrument and a summary of its…

天体物理学 · 物理学 2008-11-26 J. Holder , R. W. Atkins , H. M. Badran , G. Blaylock , S. M. Bradbury , J. H. Buckley , K. L. Byrum , D. A. Carter-Lewis , O. Celik , Y. C. K. Chow , P. Cogan , W. Cui , M. K. Daniel , I. de la Calle Perez , C. Dowdall , P. Dowkontt , C. Duke , A. D. Falcone , S. J. Fegan , J. P. Finley , P. Fortin , L. F. Fortson , K. Gibbs , G. Gillanders , O. J. Glidewell , J. Grube , K. J. Gutierrez , G. Gyuk , J. Hall , D. Hanna , E. Hays , D. Horan , S. B. Hughes , T. B. Humensky , A. Imran , I. Jung , P. Kaaret , G. E. Kenny , D. Kieda , J. Kildea , J. Knapp , H. Krawczynski , F. Krennrich , M. J. Lang , S. LeBohec , E. Linton , E. K. Little , G. Maier , H. Manseri , A. Milovanovic , P. Moriarty , R. Mukherjee , P. A. Ogden , R. A. Ong , J. S. Perkins , F. Pizlo , M. Pohl , J. Quinn , K. Ragan , P. T. Reynolds , E. T. Roache , H. J. Rose , M. Schroedter , G. H. Sembroski , G. Sleege , D. Steele , S. P. Swordy , A. Syson , J. A. Toner , L. Valcarcel , V. V. Vassiliev , S. P. Wakely , T. C. Weekes , R. J. White , D. A. Williams , R. Wagner

Performance of a small size telescope (SST-1M) camera for gamma-ray astronomy with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The foreseen implementations of the Small Size Telescopes (SST) in CTA will provide unique insights into the highest energy gamma rays offering fundamental means to discover and under- stand the sources populating the Galaxy and our local…

天体物理仪器与方法 · 物理学 2018-01-22 I. Al Samarai , C. Alispach , F. Cadoux , V. Coco , D. della Volpe , Y. Favre , M. Heller , T. Montaruli , A. Nagai , T. R. S. Njoh Ekoume , I. Troyano Pujadas , E. Lyard , A. Neronov , R. Walter , V. Sliusar , E. Mach , J. Michałowski , J. Niemiec , J. Rafalski , K. Skowron , M. Stodulska , M. Stodulski , T. Bulik , M. Grudzińska , M. Jamrozy , M. Ostrowski , Ł. Stawarz , A. Zagdański , K. Ziȩtara , P. Paśko , K. Seweryn , J. Borkowski , R. Moderski , J. Kasperek , P. Rajda , D. Mandat , M. Pech , P. Schovanek , P. Travnicek

Astrophysical measurements with the VERITAS Stellar Intensity Interferometer

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes have long been viewed as potential light collectors to be used for long baseline optical intensity interferometry observations. Intensity interferometry, as implemented with Cherenkov telescopes, is…

天体物理仪器与方法 · 物理学 2019-08-13 N. Matthews , S. LeBohec

Trigger performance verification of the FlashCam prototype camera

FlashCam is a camera proposed for the medium-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). We compare camera trigger rates obtained from measurements with the camera prototype in the laboratory and Monte-Carlo simulations, when…

天体物理仪器与方法 · 物理学 2019-07-23 S. Sailer , F. Werner , G. Hermann , M. Barcelo , C. Bauer , S. Bernhard , M. Biegger , F. Canelli , M. Capasso , S. Diebold , F. Eisenkolb , S. Eschbach , D. Florin , C. Föhr , S. Funk , A. Gadola , F. Garrecht , I. Jung , O. Kalekin , C. Kalkuhl , T. Kihm , R. Lahmann , M. Pfeifer , G. Principe , G. Pühlhofer , S. Pürckhauer , O. Reimer , A. Santangelo , M. Scalici , T. Schanz , T. Schwab , S. Steiner , U. Straumann , C. Tenzer , A. Vollhardt , D. Wolf

The VERITAS Survey of the Cygnus Region of the Galactic Plane

The Cygnus region of the Galactic plane contains many known supernova remnants, pulsars, X-ray and GeV gamma-ray emitters which make it a prime candidate for a Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray survey in the Northern Hemisphere. The VERITAS…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2019-08-13 Amanda Weinstein

Status of the Milagro Gamma Ray Observatory

The Milagro Gamma Ray Observatory, located at an altitude of 8,600 feet in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, is the world's first large-area water Cherenkov detector capable of continuously monitoring the entire sky for sources of TeV…

天体物理学 · 物理学 2012-08-27 The Milagro Collaboration

Silicon Photomultiplier Camera for Schwarzschild-Couder Cherenkov Telescopes

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an atmospheric Cherenkov observatory that will image the cosmos in very-high-energy gamma rays. CTA will study the highest-energy particle accelerators in the Universe and potentially confirm the…

天体物理仪器与方法 · 物理学 2019-08-14 J. Vandenbroucke

The CTA Observatory

In recent years, ground-based very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray astronomy has experienced a major breakthrough with the impressive astrophysical results obtained mainly by the current generation experiments like H.E.S.S., MAGIC,…

天体物理仪器与方法 · 物理学 2019-08-14 R. M. Wagner , E. J. Lindfors , A. Sillanpää , S. Wagner

Muon tagging on the Backend-Electronics of CHEC-S -- a compact high-energy camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the leading ground-base observatory for Very High Energy (VHE) {\gamma}-ray astronomy for the next decades. Its southern site will host about 70 Small Sized Telescopes (SSTs) which will determine…

天体物理仪器与方法 · 物理学 2019-07-24 Roberta Pillera , Gianluca Giavitto , Heike Prokoph

Very High-Energy Gamma-Ray Follow-Up Program Using Neutrino Triggers from IceCube

We describe and report the status of a neutrino-triggered program in IceCube that generates real-time alerts for gamma-ray follow-up observations by atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes (MAGIC and VERITAS). While IceCube is capable of…

高能物理 - 实验 · 物理学 2017-04-12 IceCube Collaboration , M. G. Aartsen , K. Abraham , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , M. Ahrens , D. Altmann , K. Andeen , T. Anderson , I. Ansseau , G. Anton , M. Archinger , C. Arguelles , J. Auffenberg , S. Axani , X. Bai , S. W. Barwick , V. Baum , R. Bay , J. J. Beatty , J. Becker-Tjus , K. -H. Becker , S. BenZvi , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , A. Bernhard , D. Z. Besson , G. Binder , D. Bindig , M. Bissok , E. Blaufuss , S. Blot , C. Bohm , M. Borner , F. Bos , D. Bose , S. Boser , O. Botner , J. Braun , L. Brayeur , H. -P. Bretz , S. Bron , A. Burgman , T. Carver , M. Casier , E. Cheung , D. Chirkin , A. Christov , K. Clark , L. Classen , S. Coenders , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , D. F. Cowen R. Cross , M. Day , J. P. A. M. de Andre , C. De Clercq , E. del Pino Rosendo , H. Dembinski , S. De Ridder , P. Desiati , K. D. de Vries , G. de Wasseige , M. de With , T. DeYoung , J. C. Diaz-Velez , V. di Lorenzo , H. Dujmovic , J. P. Dumm , M. Dunkman , B. Eberhardt , T. Ehrhardt , B. Eichmann , P. Eller , S. Euler , P. A. Evenson , S. Fahey , A. R. Fazely , J. Feintzeig , J. Felde , K. Filimonov , C. Finley , S. Flis , C. -C. Fosig , A. Franckowiak , R. Franke , E. Friedman , T. Fuchs , T. K. Gaisser , J. Gallagher , L. Gerhardt , K. Ghorbani , W. Giang , L. Gladstone , T. Glauch , T. Glusenkamp , A. Goldschmidt , G. Golup , J. G. Gonzalez , D. Grant , Z. Griffith , C. Haack , A. Haj Ismail , A. Hallgren , F. Halzen , E. Hansen , T. Hansmann , K. Hanson , D. Hebecker , D. Heereman , K. Helbing , R. Hellauer , S. Hickford , J. Hignight , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , R. Hoffmann , K. Holzapfel , K. Hoshina , F. Huang , M. Huber , K. Hultqvist , S. In , A. Ishihara , E. Jacobi , G. S. Japaridze , M. Jeong , K. Jero , B. J. P. Jones , M. Jurkovic , A. Kappes , T. Karg , A. Karle , U. Katz , M. Kauer , A. Keivani , J. L. Kelley , A. Kheirandish , M. Kim , T. Kintscher , J. Kiryluk , T. Kittler , S. R. Klein , G. Kohnen , R. Koirala , H. Kolanoski , R. Konietz , L. Kopke , C. Kopper , S. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , M. Kowalski , K. Krings , M. Kroll , G. Kruckl , C. Kruger , J. Kunnen , S. Kunwar , N. Kurahashi , T. Kuwabara , M. Labare , J. L. Lanfranchi , M. J. Larson , F. Lauber , D. Lennarz , M. Lesiak-Bzdak , M. Leuermann , L. Lu , J. Lunemann , J. Madsen , G. Maggi , K. B. M. Mahn , S. Mancina , M. Mandelartz , R. Maruyama , K. Mase , R. Maunu , F. McNally , K. Meagher , M. Medici , M. Meier , A. Meli , T. Menne , G. Merino , T. Meures , S. Miarecki , L. Mohrmann , T. Montaruli , M. Moulai , R. Nahnhauer , U. Naumann , G. Neer , H. Niederhausen , S. C. Nowicki , D. R. Nygren , A. Obertacke Pollmann , A. Olivas , A. O'Murchadha , T. Palczewski , H. Pandya , D. V. Pankova , P. Peiffer , O. Penek , J. A. Pepper , C. Perez de los Heros , D. Pieloth , E. Pinat , P. B. Price , G. T. Przybylski , M. Quinnan , C. Raab , L. Radel , M. Rameez , K. Rawlins , R. Reimann , B. Relethford , M. Relich , E. Resconi , W. Rhode , M. Richman , B. Riedel , S. Robertson , M. Rongen , C. Rott , T. Ruhe , D. Ryckbosch , D. Rysewyk , L. Sabbatini , S. E. Sanchez-Herrera , A. Sandrock , J. Sandroos , S. Sarkar , K. Satalecka , P. Schlunder , T. Schmidt , S. Schoenen , S. Schoneberg , L. Schumacher , D. Seckel , S. Seunarine , D. Soldin , M. Song , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , T. Stanev , A. Stasik , J. Stettner , A. Steuer , T. Stezelberger , R. G. Stokstad , A. Stossl , R. Strom , N. L. Strotjohann , G. W. Sullivan , M. Sutherland , H. Taavola , I. Taboada , J. Tatar , F. Tenholt , S. Ter-Antonyan , A. Terliuk , G. Tevsic , S. Tilav , P. A. Toale , M. N. Tobin , S. Toscano , D. Tosi , M. Tselengidou , A. Turcati , E. Unger , M. Usner , J. Vandenbroucke , N. van Eijndhoven , S. Vanheule , M. van Rossem , J. van Santen , J. Veenkamp , M. Vehring , M. Voge , E. Vogel , M. Vraeghe , C. Walck , A. Wallace , M. Wallraff , N. Wandkowsky , Ch. Weaver , M. J. Weiss , C. Wendt , S. Westerhoff , B. J. Whelan , S. Wickmann , K. Wiebe , C. H. Wiebusch , L. Wille , D. R. Williams , L. Wills , M. Wolf , T. R. Wood , E. Woolsey , K. Woschnagg , D. L. Xu , X. W. Xu , Y. Xu , J. P. Yanez , G. Yodh , S. Yoshida , M. Zoll MAGIC Collaboration , : , M. L. Ahnen , S. Ansoldi , L. A. Antonelli , P. Antoranz , A. Babic , B. Banerjee , P. Bangale , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , J. Becerra Gonzalez , W. Bednarek , E. Bernardini , A. Berti , B. Biasuzzi , A. Biland , O. Blanch , S. Bonnefoy , G. Bonnoli , F. Borracci , T. Bretz , S. Buson , A. Carosi , A. Chatterjee , R. Clavero , P. Colin , E. Colombo , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , S. Covino , P. Da Vela , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , B. De Lotto , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , F. Di Pierro , M. Doert , A. Dominguez , D. Dominis Prester , D. Dorner , M. Doro , S. Einecke , D. Eisenacher Glawion , D. Elsaesser , M. Engelkemeier , V. Fallah Ramazani , A. Fernandez-Barral , D. Fidalgo , M. V. Fonseca , L. Font , K. Frantzen , C. Fruck , D. Galindo , R. J. Garcia Lopez , M. Garczarczyk , D. Garrido Terrats , M. Gaug , P. Giammaria , N. Godinovic , A. Gonzalez Munoz , D. Gora , D. Guberman , D. Hadasch , A. Hahn , Y. Hanabata , M. Hayashida , J. Herrera , J. Hose , D. Hrupec , G. Hughes , W. Idec , K. Kodani , Y. Konno , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , A. La Barbera , D. Lelas , E. Lindfors , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , M. Lopez , R. Lopez-Coto , P. Majumdar , M. Makariev , K. Mallot , G. Maneva , M. Manganaro , K. Mannheim , L. Maraschi , B. Marcote , M. Mariotti , M. Martinez , D. Mazin , U. Menzel , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , A. Moralejo , E. Moretti , D. Nakajima , V. Neustroev , A. Niedzwiecki , M. Nievas Rosillo , K. Nilsson , K. Nishijima , K. Noda , L. Nogues , A. Overkemping , S. Paiano , J. Palacio , M. Palatiello , D. Paneque , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , X. Paredes-Fortuny , G. Pedaletti , M. Peresano , L. Perri , M. Persic , J. Poutanen , P. G. Prada Moroni , E. Prandini , I. Puljak , I. Reichardt , W. Rhode , M. Ribo , J. Rico , J. Rodriguez Garcia , T. Saito , K. Satalecka , S. Schroeder , C. Schultz , T. Schweizer , A. Sillanpaa , J. Sitarek , I. Snidaric , D. Sobczynska , A. Stamerra , T. Steinbring , M. Strzys , T. Suric , L. Takalo , F. Tavecchio , P. Temnikov , T. Terzic , D. Tescaro , M. Teshima , J. Thaele , D. F. Torres , T. Toyama , A. Treves , G. Vanzo , V. Verguilov , I. Vovk , J. E. Ward , M. Will , M. H. Wu , R. Zanin VERITAS Collaboration , : , A. U. Abeysekara , S. Archambault , A. Archer , W. Benbow , R. Bird , E. Bourbeau , M. Buchovecky , V. Bugaev , K. Byrum , J. V Cardenzana , M. Cerruti , L. Ciupik , M. P. Connolly , W. Cui , H. J. Dickinson , J. Dumm , J. D. Eisch , M. Errando , A. Falcone , Q. Feng , J. P. Finley , H. Fleischhack , A. Flinders , L. Fortson , A. Furniss , G. H. Gillanders , S. Griffin , J. Grube , M. Hutten , N. Haakansson , O. Hervet , J. Holder , T. B. Humensky , C. A. Johnson , P. Kaaret , P. Kar , N. Kelley-Hoskins , M. Kertzman , D. Kieda , M. Krause , F. Krennrich , S. Kumar , M. J. Lang , G. Maier , S. McArthur , A. McCann , P. Moriarty , R. Mukherjee , T. Nguyen , D. Nieto , S. O'Brien , R. A. Ong , A. N. Otte , N. Park , M. Pohl , A. Popkow , E. Pueschel , J. Quinn , K. Ragan , P. T. Reynolds , G. T. Richards , E. Roache , C. Rulten , I. Sadeh , M. Santander , G. H. Sembroski , K. Shahinyan , D. Staszak , I. Telezhinsky , J. V. Tucci , J. Tyler , S. P. Wakely , A. Weinstein , P. Wilcox , A. Wilhelm , D. A. Williams , B. Zitzer

VHE Blazar Discoveries with VERITAS

The VERITAS array of 12-m atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes is used in an intensive observation program focused on the discovery of VHE (E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray-emitting blazars. Since VERITAS began full-scale operation in 2007, more than…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2019-08-21 Wystan Benbow

The Cherenkov Telescope Array sensitivity to the transient sky

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be able to perform unprecedented observations of the transient very high-energy sky. An on-line science alert generation (SAG) pipeline, with a required 30 second latency, will allow the discovery or…

天体物理仪器与方法 · 物理学 2019-07-19 Valentina Fioretti , Deivid Ribeiro , Thomas B. Humensky , Andrea Bulgarelli , Gernot Maier , Abelardo Moralejo , Cosimo Nigro

VERITAS Observations of TeV Binaries

Since the commissioning of the array in Spring 2007, the VERITAS array (sensitive in the 0.1-50 TeV energy range) has acquired over 300 hours of observations investigating the TeV emission from X-ray binary star systems, in particular…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2019-08-14 Andrew W. Smith

The VERITAS Survey of the Cygnus Region of the Galactic Plane

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…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2019-08-13 Amanda Weinstein

VERITAS Observations of Very High Energy Blazars and Potential for Cosmological Insight

Gamma-ray blazars are among the most extreme astrophysical sources, harboring phenomena far more energetic than those attainable by terrestrial accelerators. These galaxies are understood to be active galactic nuclei that are powered by…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2019-08-14 Amy Furniss

Prospects for Detecting Gamma-Ray Bursts at Very High Energies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

We discuss the prospects for the detection of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next generation, ground-based facility of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) operating above a few tens of GeV.…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2015-06-03 Jun Kakuwa , Kohta Murase , Kenji Toma , Susumu Inoue , Ryo Yamazaki , Kunihito Ioka

VERITAS follow-up observation of the BL Lac blazar B2 1811+31 2020 Flare

VERITAS is an imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (IACT) array most sensitive to gamma rays in the very-high-energy (VHE) energy band (85 GeV - 30 TeV). As a part of its active galactic nuclei (AGN) program, VERITAS focuses on the…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2023-09-25 Pablo Drake , Colin Adams