The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS)
David Hanna, Reshmi Mukherjee
TL;DR
VERITAS is a gamma-ray observatory in Arizona that studies high-energy cosmic sources to understand particle acceleration, cosmic rays, and fundamental physics through TeV gamma-ray observations.
Contribution
This paper details the VERITAS telescopes, their operation, analysis methods, and presents recent scientific results across multiple astrophysical and fundamental physics topics.
Findings
Detection of gamma-ray sources in the TeV band
Insights into cosmic ray origins and acceleration sites
Results on extragalactic and Galactic astrophysics
Abstract
The VERITAS observatory, located in southern Arizona, is engaged in an exploration of the gamma-ray sky at energies above 85 GeV. Observations of Galactic and extragalactic sources in the TeV band provide clues to the highly energetic processes occurring in these objects, and could provide indirect evidence for the origin of cosmic rays and the sites of particle acceleration in the Universe. In this chapter, we describe the VERITAS telescopes and their operation, as well as analysis procedures, and present results from scientific observations, which include extragalactic science, Galactic physics, and studies of fundamental physics and cosmology.
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