1. Results from the first two years of VERITAS observations
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Krennrich, F., Bautista, M., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Boltuch, D., Bradbury, S.M., Cesarini, A., Ciupik, L., Duke, C., Finley, J.P., Finnegan, G., Fortson, L., Gall, D., Guenette, R., Gyuk, G., Hanna, D., Hui, C.M., Humensky, T.B., Kaaret, P., and Karlsson, N.
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ASTRONOMICAL observations , *GAMMA rays , *TELESCOPES , *ASTROPHYSICS , *PARTICLES (Nuclear physics) , *COSMIC rays , *SUPERMASSIVE black holes - Abstract
Abstract: The VERITAS observatory is an imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope array located in southern Arizona and covers an energy range between 100GeV and 30TeV. The VERITAS collaboration pursues a rigorous observing program that targets a range of key science objectives in astrophysics and particle physics; the understanding of the origin of cosmic rays, the search for supersymmetric dark matter self-annihilation, illuminating the connection between black holes and relativistic jets and constraints to the cosmological diffuse infrared background. We provide a summary of results from the first two years of observations with the full 4-telecope array reported at RICAP09. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2011
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