VERITAS
(Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System)
(ground gamma ray telescope array in Arizona)
VERITAS
(for Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System)
is a gamma-ray telescope array, a
Cherenkov telescope consisting of four 12-meter optical
telescopes, located at Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO), Arizona, in operation since 2007.
I believe it is designed to slew sufficiently rapidly to zero
in on some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). It has also been used for visible light
observations including occultation observations of stars occulted by
asteroids and as an optical intensity interferometer.
Note that VERITAS is also the name of a planned
NASA mission to Venus.
(telescope,gamma rays,array,ground,Arizona)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VERITAS
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ICRC....5..280B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ICRC...34..771P/abstract
https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/
WaveL | Freq | Photon Energy | | |
25×10-21m | 12×1027Hz | 50TeV | begin | VERITAS |
25×10-18m | 12YHz | 50GeV | end | VERITAS |
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Referenced by pages:
Cherenkov detector
Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO)
gamma rays (GR)
intensity interferometer
Telescope Array Project (TA)
VERITAS
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