VERITAS: the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System

Abstract

The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) represents an important step forward in the study of extreme astrophysical processes in the universe. It combines the power of the atmospheric Cherenkov imaging technique using a large optical reflector with the power of stereoscopic observatories using arrays of separated telescopes looking at the same shower. The seven identical telescopes in VERITAS, each of aperture 10 m, will be deployed in a filled hexagonal pattern of side 80 m; each telescope will have a camera consisting of 499 pixels with a field of view of 3.5 deg VERITAS will substantially increase the catalog of very high energy (E > 100GeV) gamma-ray sources and greatly improve measurements of established sources.

44 pages, 16 figures

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• Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
• Can cosmic strangelets reach the earth?
• Extragalactic background light absorption signal in the TeV gamma-ray spectra of blazars
• Gamma-ray Observations of the Galactic Plane at Energies E > 500 GeV
• A High Resolution Method for Measuring Cosmic Ray Composition beyond 10 TeV
• Flux Sensitivity of VERITAS
• Status of VHE Astronomy c.2000
• Detection Techniques of Microsecond Gamma-Ray Bursts using Ground-Based Telescopes

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