The first VERITAS telescope

By J. Holder, R. Atkins, H. Badran, G. Blaylock, S. Bradbury, J. Buckley, K. Byrum, D. Carter-Lewis, O. Celik, Y. Chow and 66 more. 2006

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Abstract The first atmospheric Cherenkov telescope of VERITAS (the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) has been in operation since February 2005. We present here a technical description of the instrument and a summary of its performance. The calibration methods are described, along with the results of Monte Carlo simulations of the telescope and comparisons between real and simulated data. The analysis of TeV γ-ray observations of the Crab Nebula, including the reconstructed energy spectrum, is shown to give results consistent with earlier measurements. The telescope is operating as expected and has met or exceeded all design specifications.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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The 2HWC HAWC Observatory Gamma-Ray Catalog (2017, methodology): “The spectrum measured in this work (see Table 3) under the extended hypothesis is consistent with the spectra obtained by H.E.S.S., VERITAS, and MILAGRO, and lower than the ARGO-YBJ results.”
Multimessenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A (2018, methodology): “A 1-hour follow-up observation of the neutrino alert under partial cloud coverage was performed using the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) g-ray telescope array (33), located in Arizona, USA, later on the same day, ~12 hours after the IceCube detection.”