Status of the VERITAS Observatory
J. Holder, V.A. Acciari, E. Aliu, T. Arlen, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow,, S.M. Bradbury, J.H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, Y. Butt, K.L. Byrum, A. Cannon, O., Celik, A. Cesarini, L. Ciupik, Y.C.K. Chow, P. Cogan, P. Colin, W. Cui, M.K., Daniel, T. Ergin, A.D. Falcone, S.J. Fegan, J.P. Finley
TL;DR
The paper reports on the first observational season of the VERITAS IACT array, highlighting its technical performance, sensitivity, and new gamma-ray sources detected in the GeV-TeV range.
Contribution
It provides an update on the VERITAS array's status, technical capabilities, and new astrophysical gamma-ray sources discovered at TeV energies.
Findings
Detection of multiple galactic and extragalactic gamma-ray sources
Assessment of array's sensitivity and shower reconstruction performance
Identification of previously unknown TeV sources
Abstract
VERITAS, an Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) system for gammma-ray astronomy in the GeV-TeV range, has recently completed its first season of observations with a full array of four telescopes. A number of astrophysical gamma-ray sources have been detected, both galactic and extragalactic, including sources previously unknown at TeV energies. We describe the status of the array and some highlight results, and assess the technical performance, sensitivity and shower reconstruction capabilities.
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