Speaker
Rene Ong
(LLR-Ecole Polytechnique/UCLA)
Description
VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is an array of
atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes sensitive to very high energy (VHE) gamma rays above
100 GeV. Located in southern Arizona, USA, the full VERITAS array
of four 12m-diameter telescopes is completing its fourth year of observations
and is operating with outstanding source sensitivity. VERITAS has detected numerous
Galactic sources of VHE gamma rays, including pulsar wind nebulae, supernova remnants
(SNRs), binary systems, and unidentified objects. Recent highlights of the VERITAS
Galactic sources program will be covered - in particular, the discovery of VHE gamma
rays from the Crab Pulsar, from the SNR CTA1, and from multiple sources in the Cygnus
OB1 region will be described, along with a new detection of the Galactic Center.
Primary author
Rene Ong
(LLR-Ecole Polytechnique/UCLA)
Co-author
VERITAS Collaboration
(None)
