First results from VERITAS

Mark Lang

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2008.01.020

First results from VERITAS

Mark Lang

Physics

McGill University
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
Washington University in St. Louis
Faculty of Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Leeds
Harvard & Smithsonian
Argonne National Laboratory
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Galway
Adler Planetarium
University of Utah
Purdue University
University College Dublin
Grinnell College
Methodology Center at Penn State
Barnard College
University of Chicago
The Bartol Research Institute
Iowa State University
University of Iowa
DePauw University
South Campus
Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics

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Abstract

VERITAS is an array of four, 12-m-diameter, Cherenkov telescopes, designed to explore the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky in the energy band between 100 GeV and 50 TeV. Its construction and commissioning have occurred over the past two years and the array has been taking scientific data with three or more telescopes since November 2006. We present results from observations made with VERITAS during the 1 past observing season, including new results on the distant blazar 1ES1218 + 304, the active galaxy M87 and the high-mass X-ray binary system LS I +61 303. We also describe the plans in place for the coming observing seasons. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Pages (from-to)	26-32
Number of pages	7
Journal	NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS\& METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
Volume	588
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2008.01.020
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2008

Keywords

Active galaxies
Blazars
Gamma-ray astronomy
X-ray binaries

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