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 at Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Arizona, in operation since 2007.
I believe it is designed to slew sufficiently rapidly to zero
in on some gamma-ray bursts. It has also been used for visible light
observations including occultation observations of stars occulted by
asteroids and as an optical interferometer.
(telescope,gamma rays,array,ground,Arizona)
Further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VERITAS
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ICRC....5..280B/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)
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