Speaker
Dr
Gareth Hughes
(DESY Zeuthen)
Description
We report on recent galactic results and discoveries made by the VERITAS collaboration. The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) is a ground-based gamma-ray observatory, located in southern Arizona, sensitive to energies from 100GeV up to 30TeV. VERITAS has been fully operational since 2007 and its current sensitivity enables the detection of a 1% Crab Nebula flux at 5 sigma in under 30 hours. The observatory is well placed to view large parts of the galactic plane including its center, resulting in a strong galactic program. Objects routinely observed include Pulsars, Pulsar Wing Nebulae, X-ray binaries and sources with unidentified counterparts in other wavelengths.
Primary author
Dr
Gareth Hughes
(DESY Zeuthen)
