The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS)
| Title: | The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) |
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| Authors: | Bradbury, SM; Bond, IH; Breslin, AC; Buckley, JH; Carter-Lewis, DA; Catanese, M; Criswell, S; Dingus, BL; Fegan, DJ; Finley, JP; Gaidos, J; Grindlay, J; Hillas, AM; Harris, K; Hermann, G; Kaaret, P; Kieda, D; Knapp, J; Krennrich, F; LeBohec, S; Lessard, RW; Lloyd-Evans, J; McKernan, B; Mueller, D; Ong, R; Quenby, JJ; Quinn, J; Rochester, G; Rose, HJ; Salamon, M; Sembroski, GH; Sumner, T; Swordy, S; Vassiliev, VV; Weekes, TC |
| Publication Year: | 1999 |
| Collection: | The University of Liverpool Repository |
| Description: | 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, Arizona. Each telescope, of 12 m focal length, will initially be equipped with a 499 element photomultiplier camera covering a 3.5 degree field of view. A central station will initiate the readout of 500 MHz FADCs upon receipt of multiple telescope triggers. The minimum detectable flux sensitivity will be 0.5% of the Crab Nebula flux at 200 GeV. Detailed simulations of the array's performance are presented elsewhere at this meeting. VERITAS will operate primarily as a gamma-ray observatory in the 50 GeV to 50 TeV range for the study of active galaxies, supernova remnants, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts. |
| Document Type: | article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: | text |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3023745/1/9907248v1.pdf; Collapse authors list. Bradbury, SM, Bond, IH, Breslin, AC, Buckley, JH, Carter-Lewis, DA, Catanese, M, Criswell, S, Dingus, BL, Fegan, DJ, Finley, JP et al (show 25 more authors) , Gaidos, J, Grindlay, J, Hillas, AM, Harris, K, Hermann, G, Kaaret, P, Kieda, D, Knapp, J, Krennrich, F, LeBohec, S, Lessard, RW, Lloyd-Evans, J, McKernan, B, Mueller, D, Ong, R, Quenby, JJ, Quinn, J, Rochester, G, Rose, HJ orcid:0000-0002-3388-8136 , Salamon, M, Sembroski, GH, Sumner, T, Swordy, S, Vassiliev, VV and Weekes, TC (1999) The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) AIP Conf.Proc., 510. pp. 637-641. |
| Availability: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3023745/; https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3023745/1/9907248v1.pdf |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.24846BFB |
| Database: | BASE |