IAFE   05512
INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMIA Y FISICA DEL ESPACIO
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Veritas: Status Summary 2009
Autor/es:
THE VERITAS COLLABORATION; SON 83 AUTORES, A.C. ROVERO
Revista:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D
Editorial:
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
Referencias:
Año: 2010 vol. 19 p. 1003 - 1012
ISSN:
0218-2718
Resumen:
VERITAS is a ground-based gamma-ray observatory that uses the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique and operates in the very high-energy (VHE) region of the gamma-ray spectrum from 100 GeV to 50 TeV. The observatory consists of an array of four 12m-diameter imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes located in southern Arizona, USA. The four-telescope array has been fully operational since September 2007, and over the last two years, VERITAS has been operating with high efficiency. It is currently one of the most sensitive VHE observatories. This paper summarizes the status of VERITAS as of October, 2009, and describes the detection of several new VHE gamma-ray sources.