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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).

VERITAS's optical telescopes have also been used for some observations unrelated to gamma rays: visible-light 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://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017AIPC.1792b0013H/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023RNAAS...7....6A/abstract
https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/
https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~rene/talks/Argentina-Ong-Sep2011.pdf
https://www.nevis.columbia.edu/reu/2021/talks/Miles_Garcia_REU_Talk.pdf
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VERVER J2016+371M87 GR sourceshttps://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ...679..397A/abstract

Referenced by pages:
Cherenkov detector
Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO)
gamma rays (GR)
HEGRA
High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS)
imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (IACT)
intensity interferometer
MAGIC
Telescope Array Project (TA)
VERITAS
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