VTSCat: The VERITAS Catalog of Gamma-Ray Observations
A. Acharyya, C. B. Adams, A. Archer, P. Bangale, J. T. Bartkoske, P., Batista, W. Benbow, J. H. Buckley, A. Brill, M. Capasso, J. L. Christiansen,, A. J. Chromey, M. K. Daniel, M. Errando, A. Falcone, K. A Farrell, Q. Feng,, J. P. Finley, G. M Foote, L. Fortson, A. Furniss

TL;DR
VTSCat compiles a comprehensive catalog of gamma-ray observations from the VERITAS observatory, covering diverse astrophysical sources and providing high-level data products for the scientific community.
Contribution
This paper introduces VTSCat, a new catalog aggregating all high-level VERITAS gamma-ray data from over a decade of observations, enhancing data accessibility and analysis.
Findings
Over 100 publications summarized in the catalog
Includes data on galactic and extragalactic gamma-ray sources
Provides a valuable resource for future gamma-ray research
Abstract
The ground-based gamma-ray observatory VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is sensitive to photons of astrophysical origin with energies in the range between GeV to TeV. The instrument consists of four 12-m diameter imaging Cherenkov telescopes operating at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO) in southern Arizona. VERITAS started four-telescope operations in 2007 and collects about 1100 hours of good-weather data per year. The VERITAS collaboration has published over 100 journal articles since 2008 reporting on gamma-ray observations of a large variety of objects: Galactic sources like supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, and binary systems; extragalactic sources like star forming galaxies, dwarf-spheroidal galaxies, and highly-variable active galactic nuclei. This note presents VTSCat: the catalog of high-level data…
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