Astronomy at photon energies beyond 100 GeV ? Recent results from VERITAS
Gernot Maier
Univeristé McGill
VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is a
major observatory for gamma-ray astronomy in the 100 GeV-50 TeV energy
band. The observatory, located on Mt. Hopkins, AZ, consists of four 12
m-diameter telescopes that detect very high-energy gamma rays via the
imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique. VERITAS became fully operational
in Spring 2007 and has embarked on a broad program of observations of
galactic and extragalactic sources. I will summarize the major results
from the observatory, concentrating on observations of X-ray binaries
and extragalactic blazars.
Date: | Tuesday, 20 January 2009 |
Time: | 16:00 |
Where: | McGill University |
| Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103) |
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