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Status of VERITAS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2006

M. K. Daniel
M. K. Daniel
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4. Ireland. email: michael.daniel@ucd.ie
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Abstract

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The Very Energy Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) in its first phase of operation will consist of an array of 4 Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) arranged in a ‘Mercedes’ star configuration. To be located at a high, dark site in Southern Arizona the full array is expected to see first light in October 2006. In February of 2005 the first VERITAS telescope achieved first light at a temporary location near to the final site. This poster summarises the status of the VERITAS instruments as of summer 2005.

Keywords

telescopesinstrumentation: detectorsgamma rays: observations
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 1 , Symposium S230: Populations of High Energy Sources in Galaxies , August 2005 , pp. 105 - 106
Copyright
2006 International Astronomical Union