Speaker
Prof.
Kenneth Ragan
(McGill University)
Description
The VERITAS observatory is composed of four 12-m imaging atmospheric Cherenkov
telescopes located in southern Arizona and dedicated to the study of gamma rays at very high energies (VHE, E > 100 GeV). It has been in full operation since 2007 and has detected more than 30 VHE sources to date. The VERITAS collaboration pursues a broad scientific program including the study of galactic and extragalactic sources, the search for dark matter, and gamma-ray burst follow-up observations. This talk will review some of our recent results and briefly discuss the status of the detector upgrade currently underway.
Primary author
Prof.
Kenneth Ragan
(McGill University)
