Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
Fall 10-6-2023
Abstract
Located at the base of Mount Hopkins, Arizona, at an elevation of approximately 4200 feet, the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) is a ground-based gamma ray observatory containing four Cherenkov telescopes designed to detect very high energy gamma rays with energies ranging from 100GeV to 10TeV using the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique. In April 2007, VERITAS began successful operations with all four telescopes. As of today, over 15 years of data has been taken by the VERITAS array, stored in an archive of data, and used for a wide variety of research, publications, PhD theses, and conventions examining some of the most violent and energetic processes in our universe.
Recommended Citation
Biddle, Alexander; Kuhl, Ian; Zhou, Jingze (Justin); and Archer, Avery, "An Introduction to the VERITAS Observatory" (2023). Annual Student Research Poster Session. 132, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/srfposters/132
Comments
Funding provided by the Science Research Fellows Program, O.H. Smith Endowed Scholarship