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1. Very-High-Energy $\gamma$-Ray Observations of the Blazar 1ES 2344+514 with VERITAS

Author: Allen, C., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Bourbeau, E., Brose, R., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Christiansen, J. L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Daniel, M. K., Eisch, J. D., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Fernandez-Alonso, M., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Hütten, M., Håkansson, N., Hanna, D., Hervet, O., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nguyen, T., Nieto, D., O'Brien, S., de Bhróithe, A. O'Faoláin, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Petrashyk, A., Pichel, A., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rovero, A. C., Rulten, C., Sadeh, I., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Wilhelm, A., and Williams, D. A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present very-high-energy $\gamma$-ray observations of the BL Lac object 1ES 2344+514 taken by the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) between 2007 and 2015. 1ES 2344+514 is detected with a statistical significance above background of $20.8\sigma$ in $47.2$ hours (livetime) of observations, making this the most comprehensive very-high-energy study of 1ES 2344+514 to date. Using these observations the temporal properties of 1ES 2344+514 are studied on short and long times scales. We fit a constant flux model to nightly- and seasonally-binned light curves and apply a fractional variability test, to determine the stability of the source on different timescales. We reject the constant-flux model for the 2007-2008 and 2014-2015 nightly-binned light curves and for the long-term seasonally-binned light curve at the $> 3\sigma$ level. The spectra of the time-averaged emission before and after correction for attenuation by the extragalactic background light are obtained. The observed time-averaged spectrum above 200 GeV is satisfactorily fitted (${\chi^2/NDF = 7.89/6}$) by a power-law function with index $\Gamma = 2.46 \pm 0.06_{stat} \pm 0.20_{sys} $ and extends to at least 8 TeV. The extragalactic-background-light-deabsorbed spectrum is adequately fit (${\chi^2/NDF = 6.73/6}$) by a power-law function with index $\Gamma = 2.15 \pm 0.06_{stat} \pm 0.20_{sys} $ while an F-test indicates that the power-law with exponential cutoff function provides a marginally-better fit ($\chi^2/NDF $ = $2.56 / 5 $) at the 2.1$\sigma$ level. The source location is found to be consistent with the published radio location and its spatial extent is consistent with a point source., Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures. Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Published: 2017
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2. Gamma-ray Observations Under Bright Moonlight with VERITAS

Author: Archambault, S., Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Bourbeau, E., Bouvier, A., Buchovecky, M., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Daniel, M. K., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Hanna, D., Hervet, O., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Hütten, M., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McArthur, S., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., O'Brien, S., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rulten, C., Sadeh, I., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Trepanier, S., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Wilcox, P., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) are equipped with sensitive photomultiplier tube (PMT) cameras. Exposure to high levels of background illumination degrades the efficiency of and potentially destroys these photo-detectors over time, so IACTs cannot be operated in the same configuration in the presence of bright moonlight as under dark skies. Since September 2012, observations have been carried out with the VERITAS IACTs under bright moonlight (defined as about three times the night-sky-background (NSB) of a dark extragalactic field, typically occurring when Moon illumination > 35%) in two observing modes, firstly by reducing the voltage applied to the PMTs and, secondly, with the addition of ultra-violet (UV) bandpass filters to the cameras. This has allowed observations at up to about 30 times previous NSB levels (around 80% Moon illumination), resulting in 30% more observing time between the two modes over the course of a year. These additional observations have already allowed for the detection of a flare from the 1ES 1727+502 and for an observing program targeting a measurement of the cosmic-ray positron fraction. We provide details of these new observing modes and their performance relative to the standard VERITAS observations.
Published: 2017
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3. Multiwavelength follow-up of a rare IceCube neutrino multiplet

Author: Aartsen, M. G., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Samarai, I. Al, Altmann, D., Andeen, K., Anderson, T., Ansseau, I., Anton, G., Archinger, M., Argüelles, C., Auffenberg, J., Axani, S., Bai, X., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Tjus, J. Becker, Becker, K. -H., BenZvi, S., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Blaufuss, E., Blot, S., Bohm, C., Börner, M., Bos, F., Bose, D., Böser, S., Botner, O., Braun, J., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P., Bron, S., Burgman, A., Carver, T., Casier, M., Cheung, E., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Clark, K., Classen, L., Coenders, S., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Cowen, D. F., Cross, R., Day, M., de, J. P. A. M., ré, De Clercq, C., Rosendo, E. del Pino, Dembinski, H., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de Wasseige, G., de With, M., DeYoung, T., di Lorenzo, V., Dujmovic, H., Dumm, J. P., Dunkman, M., Eberhardt, B., Ehrhardt, T., Eichmann, B., Eller, P., Euler, S., Evenson, P. A., Fahey, S., Fazely, A. R., Feintzeig, J., Felde, J., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Flis, S., Fösig, C. -C., Franckowiak, A., Friedman, E., Fuchs, T., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Gerhardt, L., Ghorbani, K., Giang, W., Gladstone, L., Glauch, T., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Gonzalez, J. G., Grant, D., Griffith, Z., Haack, C., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hansen, E., Hansmann, T., Hanson, K., Hebecker, D., Heereman, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hickford, S., Hignight, J., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Hoshina, K., Huang, F., Huber, M., Hultqvist, K., In, S., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Japaridze, G. S., Jeong, M., Jero, K., Jones, B. J. P., Kang, W., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Katz, U., Kauer, M., Keivani, A., Kelley, J. L., Kheirandish, A., Kim, J., Kim, M., Kintscher, T., Kiryluk, J., Kittler, T., Klein, S. R., Kohnen, G., Koirala, R., Kolanoski, H., Konietz, R., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krings, K., Kroll, M., Krückl, G., Krüger, C., Kunnen, J., Kunwar, S., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Kyriacou, A., Labare, M., Lanfranchi, J. L., Larson, M. J., Lauber, F., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leuermann, M., Lu, L., Lünemann, J., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Mahn, K. B. M., Mancina, S., Mandelartz, M., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Maunu, R., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Medici, M., Meier, M., Menne, T., Merino, G., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Micallef, J., Momenté, G., Montaruli, T., Moulai, M., Nahnhauer, R., Naumann, U., Neer, G., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Pollmann, A. Obertacke, Olivas, A., O'Murchadha, A., Palczewski, T., Pandya, H., Pankova, D. V., Peiffer, P., Penek, Ö., Pepper, J. A., Heros, C. Pérez de los, Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Quinnan, M., Raab, C., Rädel, L., Rameez, M., Rawlins, K., Reimann, R., Relethford, B., Relich, M., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Richman, M., Riedel, B., Robertson, S., Rongen, M., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ryckbosch, D., Rysewyk, D., Sabbatini, L., Herrera, S. E. Sanchez, Sandrock, A., Sandroos, J., Sarkar, S., Satalecka, K., Schlunder, P., Schmidt, T., Schoenen, S., Schöneberg, S., Schumacher, L., Seckel, D., Seunarine, S., Soldin, D., Song, M., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stachurska, J., Stanev, T., Stasik, A., Stettner, J., Steuer, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stößl, A., Ström, R., Strotjohann, N. L., Sullivan, G. W., Sutherland, M., Taavola, H., Taboada, I., Tatar, J., Tenholt, F., Ter-Antonyan, S., Terliuk, A., Tešić, G., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Tobin, M. N., Toscano, S., Tosi, D., Tselengidou, M., Tung, C. F., Turcati, A., Unger, E., Usner, M., Vandenbroucke, J., van Eijndhoven, N., Vanheule, S., van Rossem, M., van Santen, J., Vehring, M., Voge, M., Vogel, E., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Wallace, A., Wallraff, M., Wandkowsky, N., Waza, A., Weaver, Ch., Weiss, M. J., Wendt, C., Westerhoff, S., Whelan, B. J., Wickmann, S., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Wille, L., Williams, D. R., Wills, L., Wolf, M., Wood, T. R., Woolsey, E., Woschnagg, K., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Xu, Y., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Zoll, M., Stanek, K. Z., Shappee, B. J., Kochanek, C. S., Holoien, T. W. -S., Prieto, J. L., Fox, D. B., DeLaunay, J. J., Turley, C. F., Barthelmy, S. D., Lien, A. Y., Mészáros, P., Murase, K., Kocevski, D., Buehler, R., Giomi, M., Racusin, J. L., Albert, A., Alfaro, R., Alvarez, C., Álvarez, J. D., Arceo, R., Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C., Solares, H. A. Ayala, Barber, A. S., Becerril, N. Baustista-Elivar A., Belmont-Moreno, E., Bernal, A., Brisbois, C., Caballero-Mora, K. S., Capistrán, T., Carramiñana, A., Casanova, S., Castillo, M., Cotti, U., de León, S. Coutiño, de la Fuente, E., De León, C., Hernandez, R. Diaz, Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dingus, B. L., DuVernois, M. A., Ellsworth, R. W., Engel, K., Fiorino, D. W., Fraija, N., García-González, J. A., Gerhardt, M., Muñoz, A. González, González, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Hampel-Arias, Z., Harding, J. P., Hernandez, S., Hui, C. M., Hüntemeyer, P., Iriarte, A., Jardin-Blicq, A., Joshi, V., Kaufmann, S., Lara, A., Lauer, R. J., Lee, W. H., Lennarz, D., Vargas, H. León, Linnemann, J. T., Raya, G. Luis, Luna-García, R., López-Coto, R., Malone, K., Marinelli, S. S., Martinez, O., Martinez-Castellanos, I., Martínez-Castro, J., Martínez-Huerta, H., Matthews, J. A., Miranda-Romagnoli, P., Moreno, E., Mostafá, M., Nellen, L., Newbold, M., Nisa, M. U., Noriega-Papaqui, R., Pelayo, R., Pretz, J., Pérez-Pérez, E. G., Ren, Z., Rho, C. D., Rivière, C., Rosa-González, D., Rosenberg, M., Greus, F. Salesa, Sandoval, A., Schneider, M., Schoorlemmer, H., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Springer, R. W., Surajbali, P., Tibolla, O., Tollefson, K., Torres, I., Ukwatta, T. N., Villaseñor, L., Weisgarber, T., Wisher, I. G., Wood, J., Yapici, T., Zepeda, A., Zhou, H., Arcavi, I., Hosseinzadeh, G., Howell, D. A., Valenti, S., McCully, C., Lipunov, V. M., Gorbovskoy, E. S., Tiurina, N. V., Balanutsa, P. V., Kuznetsov, A. S., Kornilov, V. G., Chazov, V., Budnev, N. M., Gress, O. A., Ivanov, K. I., Tlatov, A. G., Lopez, R. Rebolo, Serra-Ricart, M., Evans, P. A., Kennea, J. A., Gehrels, N., Osborne, J. P., Page, K. L., Abeysekara, A. U., Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Brantseg, T., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V, Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Hütten, M., Hervet, O., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Krause, M., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Lin, T. T. Y., McArthur, S., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rulten, C., Sadeh, I., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Staszak, D., Trépanier, S., Tyler, J., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Wilcox, P., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., Bellm, E., Cano, Z., Gal-Yam, A., Kann, D. A., Ofek, E. O., Rigault, M., and Soumagnac, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: On February 17 2016, the IceCube real-time neutrino search identified, for the first time, three muon neutrino candidates arriving within 100 s of one another, consistent with coming from the same point in the sky. Such a triplet is expected once every 13.7 years as a random coincidence of background events. However, considering the lifetime of the follow-up program the probability of detecting at least one triplet from atmospheric background is 32%. Follow-up observatories were notified in order to search for an electromagnetic counterpart. Observations were obtained by Swift's X-ray telescope, by ASAS-SN, LCO and MASTER at optical wavelengths, and by VERITAS in the very-high-energy gamma-ray regime. Moreover, the Swift BAT serendipitously observed the location 100 s after the first neutrino was detected, and data from the Fermi LAT and HAWC observatory were analyzed. We present details of the neutrino triplet and the follow-up observations. No likely electromagnetic counterpart was detected, and we discuss the implications of these constraints on candidate neutrino sources such as gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae and active galactic nucleus flares. This study illustrates the potential of and challenges for future follow-up campaigns., Comment: 23 pages, 13 figures, accepted by A&A on July 30 2017
Published: 2017
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4. A search for spectral hysteresis and energy-dependent time lags from X-ray and TeV gamma-ray observations of Mrk 421

Author: Abeysekara, A. U., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Eisch, J. D., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Griffin, S., Hütten, M., Håkansson, N., Hanna, D., Hervet, O., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., O'Brien, S., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Pelassa, V., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Sadeh, I., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Arcaro, C., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., de Almeida, U. Barres, Barrio, J. A., González, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Wilhelmi, E. de Oña, Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Domínguez, A., Prester, D. Dominis, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Glawion, D. Eisenacher, Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fernández-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., López, R. J. García, Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., López-Coto, R., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Rosillo, M. Nievas, Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Nöthe, M., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes-Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Torres, D. F., Torres-Albà, N., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Acosta, M. Vazquez, Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., Hovatta, T., Perez, I. de la Calle, Smith, P. S., Racero, E., and Baloković, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Blazars are variable emitters across all wavelengths over a wide range of timescales, from months down to minutes. It is therefore essential to observe blazars simultaneously at different wavelengths, especially in the X-ray and gamma-ray bands, where the broadband spectral energy distributions usually peak. In this work, we report on three "target-of-opportunity" (ToO) observations of Mrk 421, one of the brightest TeV blazars, triggered by a strong flaring event at TeV energies in 2014. These observations feature long, continuous, and simultaneous exposures with XMM-Newton (covering X-ray and optical/ultraviolet bands) and VERITAS (covering TeV gamma-ray band), along with contemporaneous observations from other gamma-ray facilities (MAGIC and Fermi-LAT) and a number of radio and optical facilities. Although neither rapid flares nor significant X-ray/TeV correlation are detected, these observations reveal subtle changes in the X-ray spectrum of the source over the course of a few days. We search the simultaneous X-ray and TeV data for spectral hysteresis patterns and time delays, which could provide insight into the emission mechanisms and the source properties (e.g. the radius of the emitting region, the strength of the magnetic field, and related timescales). The observed broadband spectra are consistent with a one-zone synchrotron self-Compton model. We find that the power spectral density distribution at $\gtrsim 4\times 10^{-4}$ Hz from the X-ray data can be described by a power-law model with an index value between 1.2 and 1.8, and do not find evidence for a steepening of the power spectral index (often associated with a characteristic length scale) compared to the previously reported values at lower frequencies., Comment: 45 pages, 15 figures
Published: 2016
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5. Very High-Energy Gamma-Ray Follow-Up Program Using Neutrino Triggers from IceCube

Author: IceCube Collaboration, Aartsen, M. G., Abraham, K., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Altmann, D., Andeen, K., Anderson, T., Ansseau, I., Anton, G., Archinger, M., Arguelles, C., Auffenberg, J., Axani, S., Bai, X., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Becker-Tjus, J., Becker, K. -H., BenZvi, S., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blot, S., Bohm, C., Borner, M., Bos, F., Bose, D., Boser, S., Botner, O., Braun, J., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P., Bron, S., Burgman, A., Carver, T., Casier, M., Cheung, E., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Clark, K., Classen, L., Coenders, S., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Cross, D. F. Cowen R., Day, M., de Andre, J. P. A. M., De Clercq, C., Rosendo, E. del Pino, Dembinski, H., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de Wasseige, G., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Diaz-Velez, J. C., di Lorenzo, V., Dujmovic, H., Dumm, J. P., Dunkman, M., Eberhardt, B., Ehrhardt, T., Eichmann, B., Eller, P., Euler, S., Evenson, P. A., Fahey, S., Fazely, A. R., Feintzeig, J., Felde, J., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Flis, S., Fosig, C. -C., Franckowiak, A., Franke, R., Friedman, E., Fuchs, T., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Gerhardt, L., Ghorbani, K., Giang, W., Gladstone, L., Glauch, T., Glusenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Golup, G., Gonzalez, J. G., Grant, D., Griffith, Z., Haack, C., Ismail, A. Haj, Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hansen, E., Hansmann, T., Hanson, K., Hebecker, D., Heereman, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hickford, S., Hignight, J., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Holzapfel, K., Hoshina, K., Huang, F., Huber, M., Hultqvist, K., In, S., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Japaridze, G. S., Jeong, M., Jero, K., Jones, B. J. P., Jurkovic, M., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Katz, U., Kauer, M., Keivani, A., Kelley, J. L., Kheirandish, A., Kim, M., Kintscher, T., Kiryluk, J., Kittler, T., Klein, S. R., Kohnen, G., Koirala, R., Kolanoski, H., Konietz, R., Kopke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krings, K., Kroll, M., Kruckl, G., Kruger, C., Kunnen, J., Kunwar, S., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Labare, M., Lanfranchi, J. L., Larson, M. J., Lauber, F., Lennarz, D., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leuermann, M., Lu, L., Lunemann, J., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Mahn, K. B. M., Mancina, S., Mandelartz, M., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Maunu, R., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Medici, M., Meier, M., Meli, A., Menne, T., Merino, G., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Mohrmann, L., Montaruli, T., Moulai, M., Nahnhauer, R., Naumann, U., Neer, G., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Pollmann, A. Obertacke, Olivas, A., O'Murchadha, A., Palczewski, T., Pandya, H., Pankova, D. V., Peiffer, P., Penek, O., Pepper, J. A., Heros, C. Perez de los, Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Quinnan, M., Raab, C., Radel, L., Rameez, M., Rawlins, K., Reimann, R., Relethford, B., Relich, M., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Richman, M., Riedel, B., Robertson, S., Rongen, M., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ryckbosch, D., Rysewyk, D., Sabbatini, L., Sanchez-Herrera, S. E., Sandrock, A., Sandroos, J., Sarkar, S., Satalecka, K., Schlunder, P., Schmidt, T., Schoenen, S., Schoneberg, S., Schumacher, L., Seckel, D., Seunarine, S., Soldin, D., Song, M., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stanev, T., Stasik, A., Stettner, J., Steuer, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stossl, A., Strom, R., Strotjohann, N. L., Sullivan, G. W., Sutherland, M., Taavola, H., Taboada, I., Tatar, J., Tenholt, F., Ter-Antonyan, S., Terliuk, A., Tevsic, G., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Tobin, M. N., Toscano, S., Tosi, D., Tselengidou, M., Turcati, A., Unger, E., Usner, M., Vandenbroucke, J., van Eijndhoven, N., Vanheule, S., van Rossem, M., van Santen, J., Veenkamp, J., Vehring, M., Voge, M., Vogel, E., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Wallace, A., Wallraff, M., Wandkowsky, N., Weaver, Ch., Weiss, M. J., Wendt, C., Westerhoff, S., Whelan, B. J., Wickmann, S., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Wille, L., Williams, D. R., Wills, L., Wolf, M., Wood, T. R., Woolsey, E., Woschnagg, K., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Xu, Y., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Collaboration, M. Zoll MAGIC, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., de Almeida, U. Barres, Barrio, J. A., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Berti, A., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Buson, S., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Wilhelmi, E. de Ona, Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Dominguez, A., Prester, D. Dominis, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Glawion, D. Eisenacher, Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fernandez-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Lopez, R. J. Garcia, Garczarczyk, M., Terrats, D. Garrido, Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinovic, N., Munoz, A. Gonzalez, Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Lopez-Coto, R., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Rosillo, M. Nievas, Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogues, L., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes-Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Reichardt, I., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Garcia, J. Rodriguez, Saito, T., Schroeder, S., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Sillanpaa, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Suric, T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Collaboration, R. Zanin VERITAS, Abeysekara, A. U., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Bourbeau, E., Buchovecky, M., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Dumm, J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Hutten, M., Haakansson, N., Hervet, O., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nguyen, T., Nieto, D., O'Brien, S., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rulten, C., Sadeh, I., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Wilcox, P., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We describe and report the status of a neutrino-triggered program in IceCube that generates real-time alerts for gamma-ray follow-up observations by atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes (MAGIC and VERITAS). While IceCube is capable of monitoring the whole sky continuously, high-energy gamma-ray telescopes have restricted fields of view and in general are unlikely to be observing a potential neutrino-flaring source at the time such neutrinos are recorded. The use of neutrino-triggered alerts thus aims at increasing the availability of simultaneous multi-messenger data during potential neutrino flaring activity, which can increase the discovery potential and constrain the phenomenological interpretation of the high-energy emission of selected source classes (e.g. blazars). The requirements of a fast and stable online analysis of potential neutrino signals and its operation are presented, along with first results of the program operating between 14 March 2012 and 31 December 2015., Comment: accepted for publication in JINST
Published: 2016
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6. A Search for Very High-Energy Gamma Rays from the Missing Link Binary Pulsar J1023+0038 with VERITAS

Author: Aliu, E., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Biteau, J., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Eisch, J. D., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hütten, M., Håkansson, N., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Lang, M. J., Loo, A., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nguyen, T., Nieto, D., de Bhróithe, A. O'Faoláin, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pandel, D., Park, N., Pelassa, V., Petrashyk, A., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rulten, C., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., Chernyakova, M., and Roberts, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The binary millisecond radio pulsar PSR J1023+0038 exhibits many characteristics similar to the gamma-ray binary system PSR B1259--63/LS 2883, making it an ideal candidate for the study of high-energy non-thermal emission. It has been the subject of multi-wavelength campaigns following the disappearance of the pulsed radio emission in 2013 June, which revealed the appearance of an accretion disk around the neutron star. We present the results of very high-energy gamma-ray observations carried out by VERITAS before and after this change of state. Searches for steady and pulsed emission of both data sets yield no significant gamma-ray signal above 100 GeV, and upper limits are given for both a steady and pulsed gamma-ray flux. These upper limits are used to constrain the magnetic field strength in the shock region of the PSR J1023+0038 system. Assuming that very high-energy gamma rays are produced via an inverse-Compton mechanism in the shock region, we constrain the shock magnetic field to be greater than $\sim$2 G before the disappearance of the radio pulsar and greater than $\sim$10 G afterwards., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2016
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7. Discovery of Very High Energy Gamma Rays from 1ES 1440+122

Author: VERITAS Collaboration, Archambault, S., Archer, A., Barnacka, A., Behera, B., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Boettcher, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Christiansen, J. L., Ciupik, L., Collins-Hughes, E., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Dumm, J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Federici, S., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Godambe, S., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Haakansson, N., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krawczynski, H., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Madhavan, A. S, Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Nelson, T., Nieto, D., de Bhroithe, A. O'Faolain, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Perkins, J. S., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Rajotte, J., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Sweeney, K, Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Wakely, S. P., Welsing, R., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The BL Lacertae object 1ES 1440+122 was observed in the energy range from 85 GeV to 30 TeV by the VERITAS array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The observations, taken between 2008 May and 2010 June and totalling 53 hours, resulted in the discovery of $\gamma$-ray emission from the blazar, which has a redshift $z$=0.163. 1ES 1440+122 is detected at a statistical significance of 5.5 standard deviations above the background with an integral flux of (2.8$\pm0.7_{\mathrm{stat}}\pm0.8_{\mathrm{sys}}$) $\times$ 10$^{-12}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ (1.2\% of the Crab Nebula's flux) above 200 GeV. The measured spectrum is described well by a power law from 0.2 TeV to 1.3 TeV with a photon index of 3.1 $\pm$ 0.4$_{\mathrm{stat}}$ $\pm$ 0.2$_{\mathrm{sys}}$. Quasi-simultaneous multi-wavelength data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (0.3--300 GeV) and the Swift X-ray Telescope (0.2--10 keV) are additionally used to model the properties of the emission region. A synchrotron self-Compton model produces a good representation of the multi-wavelength data. Adding an external-Compton or a hadronic component also adequately describes the data., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2016
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8. Very High Energy outburst of Markarian 501 in May 2009

Author: Aliu, E., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Arlen, T., Aune, T., Barnacka, A., Behera, B., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Bouvier, A., Böttcher, M., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Cesarini, A., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Collins-Hughes, E., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dumm, J., Eisch, J. D., Falcone, A., Federici, S., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Galante, N., Gall, D., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hütten, M., Håkansson, N., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krawczynski, H., Krennrich, F., Lang, M. J., Madhavan, A. S, Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., de Bhróithe, A. O'Faoláin, Ong, R. A., Orr, M., Otte, A. N., Pandel, D., Park, N., Pelassa, V., Perkins, J. S., Pichel, A., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Rovero, A. C., Saxon, D. B., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Sheidaei, F., Skole, C., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Theiling, M., Todd, N. W., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., Baring, M. G., Gónzalez, J. Becerra, Cillis, A. N., Horan, D., and Paneque, D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The very high energy (VHE; E $>$ 100 GeV) blazar Markarian 501 was observed between April 17 and May 5 (MJD 54938--54956), 2009, as part of an extensive multi-wavelength campaign from radio to VHE. Strong VHE $\gamma$-ray activity was detected on May 1st with Whipple and VERITAS, when the flux (E $>$ 400 GeV) increased to 10 times the pre-flare baseline flux ($3.9{\times 10^{-11}}~{\rm ph~cm^{-2}~s^{-1}}$), reaching five times the flux of the Crab Nebula. This coincided with a decrease in the optical polarization and a rotation of the polarization angle by 15$^{\circ}$. This VHE flare showed a fast flux variation with an increase of a factor $\sim$4 in 25 minutes, and a falling time of $\sim$50 minutes. We present the observations of the quiescent state previous to the flare and of the high state after the flare, focusing on the flux and spectral variability from Whipple, VERITAS, Fermi-LAT, RXTE, and Swift combined with optical and radio data., Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2016
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9. VERITAS and Multiwavelength Observations of the BL Lacertae Object 1ES 1741+196

Author: VERITAS Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Biteau, J., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Christiansen, J. L., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Dumm, J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hütten, M., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., O'Brien, S., de Bhróithe, A. O'Faoláin, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Pelassa, V., Petrashyk, A., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Ratliff, G., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rulten, C., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present results from multiwavelength observations of the BL Lacertae object 1ES 1741+196, including results in the very-high-energy $\gamma$-ray regime using the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS). The VERITAS time-averaged spectrum, measured above 180 GeV, is well-modelled by a power law with a spectral index of $2.7\pm0.7_{\mathrm{stat}}\pm0.2_{\mathrm{syst}}$. The integral flux above 180 GeV is $(3.9\pm0.8_{\mathrm{stat}}\pm1.0_{\mathrm{syst}})\times 10^{-8}$ m$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, corresponding to 1.6% of the Crab Nebula flux on average. The multiwavelength spectral energy distribution of the source suggests that 1ES 1741+196 is an extreme-high-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae object. The observations analysed in this paper extend over a period of six years, during which time no strong flares were observed in any band. This analysis is therefore one of the few characterizations of a blazar in a non-flaring state., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2016
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10. TeV Gamma-ray Observations of The Galactic Center Ridge By VERITAS

Author: Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Collins-Hughes, E., Connolly, M. P., Eisch, J. D., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hakansson, N., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Hutten, M., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., Ong, R. A., Park, N., Pelassa, V., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Ratliff, G., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Vassiliev, V. V., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., and Yusef-Zadeh, F.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The Galactic Center Ridge has been observed extensively in the past by both GeV and TeV gamma-ray instruments revealing a wealth of structure, including a diffuse component as well as the point sources G0.9+0.1 (a composite supernova remnant) and Sgr A* (believed to be associated with the supermassive black hole located at the center of our Galaxy). Previous very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations with the H.E.S.S. experiment have also detected an extended TeV gamma-ray component along the Galactic plane in the >300 GeV gamma-ray regime. Here we report on observations of the Galactic Center Ridge from 2010-2014 by the VERITAS telescope array in the >2 TeV energy range. From these observations we 1.) provide improved measurements of the differential energy spectrum for Sgr A* in the >2 TeV gamma-ray regime, 2.) provide a detection in the >2 TeV gamma-ray emission from the composite SNR G0.9+0.1 and an improved determination of its multi-TeV gamma-ray energy spectrum, 3.) report on the detection of VER J1746-289, a localized enhancement of >2 TeV gamma-ray emission along the Galactic plane., Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for Publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2016
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11. A Search for Brief Optical Flashes Associated with the SETI Target KIC 8462852

Author: Abeysekara, A. U., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Christiansen, J. L., Ciupik, L., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Fegan, D. J., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Huetten, M., Hakansson, N., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Lin, T. T. Y., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., O'Brien, S., de Bhroithe, A. O'Faolain, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Perkins, J. S., Petrashyk, A., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Ratliff, G., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract: The F-type star KIC 8462852 has recently been identified as an exceptional target for SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) observations. We describe an analysis methodology for optical SETI, which we have used to analyse nine hours of serendipitous archival observations of KIC 8462852 made with the VERITAS gamma-ray observatory between 2009 and 2015. No evidence of pulsed optical beacons, above a pulse intensity at the Earth of approximately 1 photon per m^2, is found. We also discuss the potential use of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays in searching for extremely short duration optical transients in general., Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. Fixed a minor error in the title
Published: 2016
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12. Exceptionally bright TeV flares from the binary LS I +61$^\circ$ 303

Author: VERITAS Collaboration, Archambault, S., Archer, A., Aune, T., Barnacka, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Collins-Hughes, E., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Dumm, J., Eisch, J. D., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Huetten, M., Hakansson, N., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., O'Brien, S., de Bhroithe, A. O'Faolain, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pandel, D., Park, N., Pelassa, V., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Rulten, C., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The TeV binary system LS I +61$^\circ$ 303 is known for its regular, non-thermal emission pattern which traces the orbital period of the compact object in its 26.5 day orbit around its B0 Ve star companion. The system typically presents elevated TeV emission around apastron passage with flux levels between 5% and 15% of the steady flux from the Crab Nebula (> 300 GeV). In this article, VERITAS observations of LS I +61$^\circ$ 303 taken in late 2014 are presented, during which bright TeV flares around apastron at flux levels peaking above 30% of the Crab Nebula flux were detected. This is the brightest such activity from this source ever seen in the TeV regime. The strong outbursts have rise and fall times of less than a day. The short timescale of the flares, in conjunction with the observation of 10 TeV photons from LS I +61$^\circ$ 303 during the flares, provides constraints on the properties of the accelerator in the source., Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication by ApJL
Published: 2016
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13. Gamma rays from the quasar PKS 1441+25: story of an escape

Author: Abeysekara, A. U., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Aune, T., Barnacka, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Biteau, J., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Christiansen, J. L., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Coppi, P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Dumm, J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hütten, M., Håkansson, N., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., de Bhróithe, A. O'Faoláin, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Perkins, J. S., Petrashyk, A., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Ratliff, G., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Todd, N. W., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Vassiliev, V. V., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., Smith, P. S., Holoien, T. W. -S., Prieto, J. L., Kochanek, C. S., Stanek, K. Z., Shappee, B., Hovatta, T., Max-Moerbeck, W., Pearson, T. J., Reeves, R. A., Richards, J. L., Readhead, A. C. S., Madejski, G. M., Djorgovski, S. G., Drake, A. J., Graham, M. J., and Mahabal, A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Outbursts from gamma-ray quasars provide insights on the relativistic jets of active galactic nuclei and constraints on the diffuse radiation fields that fill the Universe. The detection of significant emission above 100 GeV from a distant quasar would show that some of the radiated gamma rays escape pair-production interactions with low-energy photons, be it the extragalactic background light (EBL), or the radiation near the supermassive black hole lying at the jet's base. VERITAS detected gamma-ray emission up to 200 GeV from PKS 1441+25 (z=0.939) during April 2015, a period of high activity across all wavelengths. This observation of PKS 1441+25 suggests that the emission region is located thousands of Schwarzschild radii away from the black hole. The gamma-ray detection also sets a stringent upper limit on the near-ultraviolet to near-infrared EBL intensity, suggesting that galaxy surveys have resolved most, if not all, of the sources of the EBL at these wavelengths., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, published in ApJ Letters 815, L22 (2015)
Published: 2015
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14. VERITAS Collaboration Contributions to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference

Author: The VERITAS Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Barnacka, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Biteau, J., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Christiansen, J. L., Ciupik, L., Collins-Hughes, E., Connolly, M. P., Coppi, P., Cui, W., Dwarkadas, V. V., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Alonso, M. Fernandez, Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Gyuk, G., Hütten, M., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nguyen, T., Nieto, D., de Bhróithe, A. O'Faoláin, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pandel, D., Park, N., Pelassa, V., Perkins, J. S., Petrashyk, A., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rovero, A. C., Santander, M., Schlenstedt, S., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Vassiliev, V. V., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Compilation of papers presented by the VERITAS Collaboration at the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), held July 30 through August 6, 2015 in The Hague, The Netherlands., Comment: 1 html page. 2015 ICRC, The Hague, The Netherlands. A full list of author affiliations can be found at this link: http://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/conferences/authors?icrc2015
Published: 2015

15. Science Highlights from VERITAS

Author: Staszak, D., Abeysekara, A. U., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Barnacka, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Biteau, J., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Christiansen, J. L., Ciupik, L., Collins-Hughes, E., Connolly, M. P., Coppi, P., Cui, W., Dwarkadas, V. V., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Alonso, M. Fernandez, Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Gyuk, G., Hütten, M., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nguyen, T., Nieto, D., de Bhróithe, A. O'Faoláin, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pandel, D., Park, N., Pelassa, V., Perkins, J. S., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rovero, A. C., Santander, M., Schlenstedt, S., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Smith, A. W., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Vassiliev, V. V., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) is a ground-based array located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in southern Arizona and is one of the world's most sensitive gamma-ray instruments at energies of 85 GeV to $>$30 TeV. VERITAS has a wide scientific reach that includes the study of extragalactic and Galactic objects as well as the search for astrophysical signatures of dark matter and the measurement of cosmic rays. In this paper, we will summarize the current status of the VERITAS observatory and present some of the scientific highlights from the last two years, focusing in particular on those results shown at the 2015 ICRC in The Hague, Netherlands., Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), The Hague, The Netherlands
Published: 2015

16. First NuSTAR Observations of Mrk 501 within a Radio to TeV Multi-Instrument Campaign

Author: Furniss, A., Noda, K., Boggs, S., Chiang, J., Christensen, F., Craig, W., Giommi, P ., Hailey, C., Harisson, F., Madejski, G., Nalewajko, K., Perri, M., Stern, D., Urry, M., Verrecchia, F., Zhang, W., Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., de Almeida, U. Barres, Barrio, J. A., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carmona, E., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Caneva, G., De Lotto, B., Wilhelmi, E. de Ona, Mendez, C. Delgado, Di Pierro, F., Prester, D. Dominis, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Glawion, D. Eisenacher, Elsaesser, D., Fernandez-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Lopez, R. J. Garcia, Garczarczyk, M., Terrats, D. Garrido, Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinovic, N., Munoz, A. Gonzalez, Guberman, D., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kellermann, H., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lewandowska, N., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Lopez-Coto, R., Lopez-Oramas, A., Lorenz, E., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Rosillo, M. Nievas, Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Orito, R., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes-Fortuny, X., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Reinthal, R., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Garcia, J. Rodriguez, Saito, T., Saito, K., Satalecka, K., Scapin, V., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpaa, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Will, M., Zanin, R., Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Biteau, J., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Dumm, J., Eisch, J. D., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Gerard, L., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Haakansson, N., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Lang, M. J., Lin, T. T. Y., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., de Bhroithe, A. O'Faolain, Ong, R. A., Park, N., Petry, D., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Ragan, K., Ratliff, G., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Vassiliev, V. V., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., Fuhrmann, O. Vince L., Angelakis, E., Karamanavis, V., Myserlis, I., Krichbaum, T. P., Zensus, J. A., Ungerechts, H., Sievers, A., Bachev, R., Bottcher, M., Chen, W. P., Damljanovic, G., Eswaraiah, C., Guver, T., Hovatta, T., Hughes, Z., Ibryamov, S. . I., Joner, M. D., Jordan, B., Jorstad, S. G., Joshi, M., Kataoka, J., Kurtanidze, O. M., Kurtanidze, S. O., Lahteenmaki, A., Latev, G., Lin, H. C., Larionov, V. M., Mokrushina, A. A., Morozova, D. A., Nikolashvili, M. G., Raiteri, C. M., Ramakrishnan, V., Readhead, A. C. R., Sadun, A. C., Sigua, L. A., Semkov, E. H., Strigachev, A., Tammi, J., Tornikoski, M., Troitsky, Y. V. Troitskaya I. S., and Villata, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We report on simultaneous broadband observations of the TeV-emitting blazar Markarian 501 between 1 April and 10 August 2013, including the first detailed characterization of the synchrotron peak with Swift and NuSTAR. During the campaign, the nearby BL Lac object was observed in both a quiescent and an elevated state. The broadband campaign includes observations with NuSTAR, MAGIC, VERITAS, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), Swift X-ray Telescope and UV Optical Telescope, various ground-based optical instruments, including the GASP-WEBT program, as well as radio observations by OVRO, Mets\"ahovi and the F-Gamma consortium. Some of the MAGIC observations were affected by a sand layer from the Saharan desert, and had to be corrected using event-by-event corrections derived with a LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) facility. This is the first time that LIDAR information is used to produce a physics result with Cherenkov Telescope data taken during adverse atmospheric conditions, and hence sets a precedent for the current and future ground-based gamma-ray instruments. The NuSTAR instrument provides unprecedented sensitivity in hard X-rays, showing the source to display a spectral energy distribution between 3 and 79 keV consistent with a log-parabolic spectrum and hard X-ray variability on hour timescales. None (of the four extended NuSTAR observations) shows evidence of the onset of inverse-Compton emission at hard X-ray energies. We apply a single-zone equilibrium synchrotron self-Compton model to five simultaneous broadband spectral energy distributions. We find that the synchrotron self-Compton model can reproduce the observed broadband states through a decrease in the magnetic field strength coinciding with an increase in the luminosity and hardness of the relativistic leptons responsible for the high-energy emission., Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2015
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17. VERITAS detection of $\gamma$-ray flaring activity from the BL Lac object 1ES 1727+502 during bright moonlight observations

Author: Archambault, S., Archer, A., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Biteau, J., Bouvier, A., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Dumm, J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Håkansson, N., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., de Bhróithe, A. O'Faoláin, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., and Hughes, Z. D.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: During moonlit nights, observations with ground-based Cherenkov telescopes at very high energies (VHE, $E>100$ GeV) are constrained since the photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) in the telescope camera are extremely sensitive to the background moonlight. Observations with the VERITAS telescopes in the standard configuration are performed only with a moon illumination less than 35$\%$ of full moon. Since 2012, the VERITAS collaboration has implemented a new observing mode under bright moonlight, by either reducing the voltage applied to the PMTs (reduced-high-voltage configuration, RHV), or by utilizing UV-transparent filters. While these operating modes result in lower sensitivity and increased energy thresholds, the extension of the available observing time is useful for monitoring variable sources such as blazars and sources requiring spectral measurements at the highest energies. In this paper we report the detection of $\gamma$-ray flaring activity from the BL Lac object 1ES 1727+502 during RHV observations. This detection represents the first evidence of VHE variability from this blazar. The integral flux is $(1.1\pm0.2)\times10^{-11}\mathrm{cm^{-2}s^{-1}}$ above 250 GeV, which is about five times higher than the low-flux state. The detection triggered additional \veritas\ observations during standard dark-time. Multiwavelength observations with the FLWO 48" telescope, and the Swift and Fermi satellites are presented and used to produce the first spectral energy distribution (SED) of this object during $\gamma$-ray flaring activity. The SED is then fitted with a standard synchrotron-self-Compton model, placing constraints on the properties of the emitting region and of the acceleration mechanism at the origin of the relativistic particle population in the jet., Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2015
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18. A Search for Pulsations from Geminga Above 100 GeV with VERITAS

Author: Aliu, E., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Aune, T., Barnacka, A., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Dumm, J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hakansson, N., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Lyutikov, M., Madhavan, A. S, Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., de Bhroithe, A. O'Faolain, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Williams, D. A., Zajczyk, A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present the results of 71.6 hours of observations of the Geminga pulsar (PSR J0633+1746) with the VERITAS very-high-energy gamma-ray telescope array. Data taken with VERITAS between November 2007 and February 2013 were phase-folded using a Geminga pulsar timing solution derived from data recorded by the XMM-\emph{Newton} and \emph{Fermi}-LAT space telescopes. No significant pulsed emission above 100 GeV is observed, and we report upper limits at the 95% confidence level on the integral flux above 135 GeV (spectral analysis threshold) of 4.0$\times10^{-13}$ s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ and 1.7$\times10^{-13}$ s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ for the two principal peaks in the emission profile. These upper limits, placed in context with phase-resolved spectral energy distributions determined from five years of data from the \emph{Fermi}-LAT, constrain possible hardening of the Geminga pulsar emission spectra above $\sim$50 GeV., Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2014
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19. VERITAS Observations of the BL Lac Object PG 1553+113

Author: Aliu, E., Archer, A., Aune, T., Barnacka, A., Behera, B., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Dumm, J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Federici, S., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Galante, N., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Håkansson, N., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kertzman, P. Kar M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krawczynski, H., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Madhavan, A., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Nieto, D., de Bhróithe, A. O'Faoláin, Ong, R. A., Orr, M., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Perkins, J. S., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Rajotte, J., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present results from VERITAS observations of the BL Lac object PG 1553+113 spanning the years 2010, 2011, and 2012. The time-averaged spectrum, measured between 160 and 560\,GeV, is well described by a power law with a spectral index of $4.33 \pm 0.09$. The time-averaged integral flux above $200\,$GeV measured for this period was $(1.69 \pm 0.06) \times 10^{-11} \, \mathrm{ph} \, \mathrm{cm}^{-2} \, \mathrm{s}^{-1}$, corresponding to 6.9\% of the Crab Nebula flux. We also present the combined $\gamma$-ray spectrum from the Fermi Large Area Telescope and VERITAS covering an energy range from 100~MeV to 560~GeV. The data are well fit by a power law with an exponential cutoff at $\rm {101.9 \pm 3.2 \, \mathrm{GeV}} $. The origin of the cutoff could be intrinsic to PG~1553+113 or be due to the $\gamma$-ray opacity of our universe through pair production off the extragalactic background light (EBL). Given lower limits to the redshift of $\rm z \negthinspace > \negthinspace 0.395$ based on optical/UV observations of PG~1553+113, the cutoff would be dominated by EBL absorption. Conversely, the small statistical uncertainties of the VERITAS energy spectrum have allowed us to provide a robust upper limit on the redshift of PG 1553+113 of $z \negthinspace \leq \negthinspace 0.62$. A strongly-elevated mean flux of $(2.50 \pm 0.14) \times 10^{-11} \, \mathrm{ph} \, \mathrm{cm}^{-2} \, \mathrm{s}^{-1}$ (10.3\% of the Crab Nebula flux) was observed during 2012, with the daily flux reaching as high as $(4.44 \pm 0.71) \times 10^{-11} \, \mathrm{ph} \, \mathrm{cm}^{-2} \, \mathrm{s}^{-1}$ (18.3\% of the Crab Nebula flux) on MJD 56048. The light curve measured during the 2012 observing season is marginally inconsistent with a steady flux, giving a $\chi^2$ probability for a steady flux of 0.03\%., Comment: in press in ApJ, 2014
Published: 2014
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20. The most powerful flaring activity from the NLSy1 PMN J0948+0022

Author: D'Ammando, F., Orienti, M., Finke, J., Raiteri, C. M., Hovatta, T., Larsson, J., Max-Moerbeck, W., Perkins, J., Readhead, A. C. S., Richards, J. L., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Dickinson, H. J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gerard, L., Gillanders, G. H., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hakansson, N., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., de Bhroithe, A. O' Faolain, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We report on multifrequency observations performed during 2012 December-2013 August of the first narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy detected in gamma rays, PMN J0948+0022 ($z$ = 0.5846). A gamma-ray flare was observed by the Large Area Telescope on board Fermi during 2012 December-2013 January, reaching a daily peak flux in the 0.1-100 GeV energy range of (155 $\pm$ 31) $\times$10$^{-8}$ ph cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ on 2013 January 1, corresponding to an apparent isotropic luminosity of about 1.5$\times$10$^{48}$ erg s$^{-1}$. The gamma-ray flaring period triggered Swift and VERITAS observations in addition to radio and optical monitoring by OVRO, MOJAVE, and CRTS. A strong flare was observed in optical, UV, and X-rays on 2012 December 30, quasi-simultaneously to the gamma-ray flare, reaching a record flux for this source from optical to gamma rays. VERITAS observations at very high energy (E > 100 GeV) during 2013 January 6-17 resulted in an upper limit of F (> 0.2 TeV) < 4.0$\times$10$^{-12}$ ph cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$. We compared the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the flaring state in 2013 January with that of an intermediate state observed in 2011. The two SEDs, modelled as synchrotron emission and an external Compton scattering of seed photons from a dust torus, can be modelled by changing both the electron distribution parameters and the magnetic field., Comment: 13 pages, 5 Figures, 5 Tables. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Published: 2014
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21. Constraints on Very High Energy Emission from GRB 130427A

Author: Aliu, E., Aune, T., Barnacka, A., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Biteau, J., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Connaughton, V., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Federici, S., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Galante, N., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Håkansson, N., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krawczynski, H., Krennrich, F., Lang, M. J., Madhavan, A. S., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., de Bhróithe, A. O'Faoláin, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Rajotte, J., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., McEnery, J. E., Perkins, J. S., Veres, P., and Zhu, S.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Prompt emission from the very fluent and nearby (z=0.34) gamma-ray burst GRB 130427A was detected by several orbiting telescopes and by ground-based, wide-field-of-view optical transient monitors. Apart from the intensity and proximity of this GRB, it is exceptional due to the extremely long-lived high-energy (100 MeV to 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission, which was detected by the Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope for ~70 ks after the initial burst. The persistent, hard-spectrum, high-energy emission suggests that the highest-energy gamma rays may have been produced via synchrotron self-Compton processes though there is also evidence that the high-energy emission may instead be an extension of the synchrotron spectrum. VERITAS, a ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope array, began follow-up observations of GRB 130427A ~71 ks (~20 hr) after the onset of the burst. The GRB was not detected with VERITAS; however, the high elevation of the observations, coupled with the low redshift of the GRB, make VERITAS a very sensitive probe of the emission from GRB 130427A for E > 100 GeV. The non-detection and consequent upper limit derived place constraints on the synchrotron self-Compton model of high-energy gamma-ray emission from this burst., Comment: 22 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Published: 2014
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22. Investigating the TeV Morphology of MGRO J1908+06 with VERITAS

Author: Aliu, E., Archambault, S., Aune, T., Behera, B., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Collins-Hughes, E., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dumm, J., Dwarkadas, V. V., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Federici, S., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Galante, N., Gall, D., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Kaaret, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Madhavan, A. S, Maier, G., McCann, A. J., Meagher, K., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., de Bhroithe, A. O'Faolain, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pandel, D., Park, N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Rajotte, J., Ratliff, G., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Sheidaei, F., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tsurusaki, K., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Ward, J. E., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., and Wilhelm, A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We report on deep observations of the extended TeV gamma-ray source MGRO J1908+06 made with the VERITAS very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray observatory. Previously, the TeV emission has been attributed to the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) of the Fermi-LAT pulsar PSR J1907+0602. We detect MGRO J1908+06 at a significance level of 14 standard deviations (14 sigma) and measure a photon index of 2.20 +/- 0.10_stat +/- 0.20_sys. The TeV emission is extended, covering the region near PSR J1907+0602 and also extending towards SNR G40.5--0.5. When fitted with a 2-dimensional Gaussian, the intrinsic extension has a standard deviation of sigma_src = 0.44 +/- 0.02 degrees. In contrast to other TeV PWNe of similar age in which the TeV spectrum softens with distance from the pulsar, the TeV spectrum measured near the pulsar location is consistent with that measured at a position near the rim of G40.5--0.5, 0.33 degrees away., Comment: To appear in ApJ, 8 pages
Published: 2014
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23. Deep Broadband Observations of the Distant Gamma-ray Blazar PKS 1424+240

Author: Archambault, S., Aune, T., Behera, B., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Biteau, J., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dumm, J., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Federici, S., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Galante, N., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krawczynski, H., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Madhavan, A. S, Maier, G., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., de Bhroithe, A. O'Faolain, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Rajotte, J., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Albert, A., Baldini, L., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Bregeon, J., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Charles, E., Chiang, J., Ciprini, S., Claus, R., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., de Angelis, A., de Palma, F., Dermer, C. D., Digel, S. W., Di Venere, L., Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Franckowiak, A., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Jogler, T., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lubrano, P., Madejski, G. M., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Murgia, S., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Ormes, J. F., Perkins, J. S., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Raino, S., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Ritz, S., Schaal, M., Sgro, C., Siskind, E. J., Spinelli, P., Takahashi, H., Tibaldo, L., Tinivella, M., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Werner, M., and Wood, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present deep VERITAS observations of the blazar PKS 1424+240, along with contemporaneous Fermi Large Area Telescope, Swift X-ray Telescope and Swift UV Optical Telescope data between 2009 February 19 and 2013 June 8. This blazar resides at a redshift of $z\ge0.6035$, displaying a significantly attenuated gamma-ray flux above 100 GeV due to photon absorption via pair-production with the extragalactic background light. We present more than 100 hours of VERITAS observations from three years, a multiwavelength light curve and the contemporaneous spectral energy distributions. The source shows a higher flux of (2.1$\pm0.3$)$\times10^{-7}$ ph m$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ above 120 GeV in 2009 and 2011 as compared to the flux measured in 2013, corresponding to (1.02$\pm0.08$)$\times10^{-7}$ ph m$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ above 120 GeV. The measured differential very high energy (VHE; $E\ge100$ GeV) spectral indices are $\Gamma=$3.8$\pm$0.3, 4.3$\pm$0.6 and 4.5$\pm$0.2 in 2009, 2011 and 2013, respectively. No significant spectral change across the observation epochs is detected. We find no evidence for variability at gamma-ray opacities of greater than $\tau=2$, where it is postulated that any variability would be small and occur on longer than year timescales if hadronic cosmic-ray interactions with extragalactic photon fields provide a secondary VHE photon flux. The data cannot rule out such variability due to low statistics., Comment: ApJL accepted March 17, 2014
Published: 2014
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24. Observations of the unidentified gamma-ray source TeV J2032+4130 by VERITAS

Author: VERITAS Collaboration, Aliu, E., Aune, T., Behera, B., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Duke, C., Dumm, J., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Federici, S., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Galante, N., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Kargaltsev, O., Kaaret, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krawczynski, H., Lang, M. J., Madhavan, A. S, Maier, G., Majumdar, P., McCann, A., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., de Bhroithe, A. O'Faolain, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pandel, D., Perkins, J. S., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Rajotte, J., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Sembroski, G. H., Skole, C., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Theiling, M., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weekes, T. C., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: TeV J2032+4130 was the first unidentified source discovered at very high energies (VHE; E $>$ 100 GeV), with no obvious counterpart in any other wavelength. It is also the first extended source to be observed in VHE gamma rays. Following its discovery, intensive observational campaigns have been carried out in all wavelengths in order to understand the nature of the object, which have met with limited success. We report here on a deep observation of TeV J2032+4130, based on 48.2 hours of data taken from 2009 to 2012 by the VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) experiment. The source is detected at 8.7 standard deviations ($\sigma$) and is found to be extended and asymmetric with a width of 9.5$^{\prime}$$\pm$1.2$^{\prime}$ along the major axis and 4.0$^{\prime}$$\pm$0.5$^{\prime}$ along the minor axis. The spectrum is well described by a differential power law with an index of 2.10 $\pm$ 0.14$_{stat}$ $\pm$ 0.21$_{sys}$ and a normalization of (9.5 $\pm$ 1.6$_{stat}$ $\pm$ 2.2$_{sys}$) $\times$ 10$^{-13}$TeV$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ at 1 TeV. We interpret these results in the context of multiwavelength scenarios which particularly favor the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) interpretation.
Published: 2014
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25. VERITAS contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference

Author: VERITAS Collaboration, Aliu, E., Archambault, S., Aune, T., Behera, B., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Bouvier, A., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dumm, J., Dwarkadas, V. V., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Federici, S., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Galante, N., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Kaaret, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krawczynski, H., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Madhavan, A. S, Maier, G., Majumdar, P., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nelson, T., Nieto, D., O'Faolain, A. de Bhroithe, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Perkins, J. S., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Rajotte, J., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Sembroski, G. H., Sheidaei, F., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Theiling, M., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vincent, S., Wagner, R. G., Wakely, S. P., Weekes, T. C., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Compilation of papers contributed by the VERITAS Collaboration to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, held 2-9 July, 2013, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Published: 2013

26. Very high-energy gamma-ray follow-up program using neutrino triggers from IceCube

Author: IceCube Collaboration, Aartsen, M. G., Abraham, K., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Altmann, D., Andeen, K., Anderson, T., Ansseau, I., Anton, G., Archinger, M., Arguelles, C., Auffenberg, J., Axani, S., Bai, X., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Becker-Tjus, J., Becker, K. -H, Benzvi, S., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blot, S., Bohm, C., Borner, M., Bos, F., Bose, D., Boser, S., Botner, O., Braun, J., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P, Bron, S., Burgman, A., Carver, T., Casier, M., Cheung, E., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Clark, K., Classen, L., Coenders, S., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Cowen, D. F., Cross, R., Day, M., Andre, J. P. A. M., Clercq, C., Del Pino Rosendo, E., Dembinski, H., Ridder, S., Desiati, P., Vries, K. D., Wasseige, G., With, M., Deyoung, T., Diaz-Velez, J. C., Di Lorenzo, V., Dujmovic, H., Dumm, J. P., Dunkman, M., Eberhardt, B., Ehrhardt, T., Eichmann, B., Eller, P., Euler, S., Evenson, P. A., Fahey, S., Fazely, A. R., Feintzeig, J., Felde, J., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Flis, S., Fosig, C. -C, Franckowiak, A., Franke, R., Friedman, E., Fuchs, T., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Gerhardt, L., Ghorbani, K., Giang, W., Gladstone, L., Glauch, T., Glusenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Golup, G., Gonzalez, J. G., Grant, D., Griffith, Z., Haack, C., Haj Ismail, A., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hansen, E., Hansmann, T., Hanson, K., Hebecker, D., Heereman, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hickford, S., Hignight, J., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Holzapfel, K., Hoshina, K., Huang, F., Huber, M., Hultqvist, K., In, S., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Japaridze, G. S., Jeong, M., Jero, K., Jones, B. J. P., Jurkovic, M., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Katz, U., Kauer, M., Keivani, A., Kelley, J. L., Kheirandish, A., Kim, M., Kintscher, T., Kiryluk, J., Kittler, T., Klein, S. 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Department of Physics, Arguelles Delgado, Carlos A, Axani, Spencer Nicholas, Collin G. H., Conrad, Janet Marie, Jones, Benjamin James Poyner, and Moulai, Marjon H.
Subjects: High energy, Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Gamma telescope, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma telescopes, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Neutrino detectors, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Online analysis, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Raigs gamma, 0103 physical sciences, MAGIC (telescope), ddc:610, Neutrins, Neutrinos, Blazar, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, media_common, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma rays, Gamma ray, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Sky, Física nuclear, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, neutrino detectors, gamma telescopes
Abstract: Journal of Instrumentation 11(11), P11009(2016). doi:10.1088/1748-0221/11/11/P11009, We describe and report the status of a neutrino-triggered program in IceCube that generates real-time alerts for gamma-ray follow-up observations by atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes (MAGIC and VERITAS). While IceCube is capable of monitoring the whole sky continuously, high-energy gamma-ray telescopes have restricted fields of view and in general are unlikely to be observing a potential neutrino-flaring source at the time such neutrinos are recorded. The use of neutrino-triggered alerts thus aims at increasing the availability of simultaneous multi-messenger data during potential neutrino flaring activity, which can increase the discovery potential and constrain the phenomenological interpretation of the high-energy emission of selected source classes (e.g. blazars). The requirements of a fast and stable online analysis of potential neutrino signals and its operation are presented, along with first results of the program operating between 14 March 2012 and 31 December 2015., Published by Inst. of Physics, London
Published: 2017
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27. EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT TEV FLARES FROM THE BINARY LS I+61 degrees 303

Author: Archambault, S., Archer, A., Aune, T., Barnacka, Anna, Benbow, W., Bird, R., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Chen, Xuhui, Ciupik, L., Collins-Hughes, E., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Dumm, J., Eisch, J. D., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Huetten, M., Hakansson, Nils, Hanna, D., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pandel, D., Park, N., Pelassa, V., Pohl, Martin Karl Wilhelm (Prof. Dr.), Popkow, A., Pueschel, Elisa, Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Rulten, C., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, Igor O., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Wilhelm, Alina, Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Institut für Physik und Astronomie
Abstract: The TeV binary system LS I +61 degrees 303 is known for its regular, non-thermal emission pattern that traces the orbital period of the compact object in its 26.5 day orbit around its B0 Ve star companion. The system typically presents elevated TeV emission around apastron passage with flux levels between 5% and 15% of the steady flux from the Crab Nebula (> 300 GeV). In this article, VERITAS observations of LS I + 61 degrees. 303 taken in late 2014 are presented, during which bright TeV flares around apastron at flux levels peaking above 30% of the Crab Nebula flux were detected. This is the brightest such activity from this source ever seen in the TeV regime. The strong outbursts have rise and fall times of less than a day. The short timescale of the flares, in conjunction with the observation of 10 TeV photons from LS I + 61 degrees 303 during the flares, provides constraints on the properties of the accelerator in the source.
Published: 2016

28. Very-High-Energy γ-Ray Observations of the Blazar 1ES 2344+514 with VERITAS

Author: Allen, C., primary, Archambault, S., additional, Archer, A., additional, Benbow, W., additional, Bird, R., additional, Bourbeau, E., additional, Brose, R., additional, Buchovecky, M., additional, Buckley, J. H., additional, Bugaev, V., additional, Cardenzana, J. V, additional, Cerruti, M., additional, Chen, X., additional, Christiansen, J. L., additional, Connolly, M. P., additional, Cui, W., additional, Daniel, M. K., additional, Eisch, J. D., additional, Falcone, A., additional, Feng, Q., additional, Fernandez-Alonso, M., additional, Finley, J. P., additional, Fleischhack, H., additional, Flinders, A., additional, Fortson, L., additional, Furniss, A., additional, Gillanders, G. H., additional, Griffin, S., additional, Grube, J., additional, Hütten, M., additional, Håkansson, N., additional, Hanna, D., additional, Hervet, O., additional, Holder, J., additional, Hughes, G., additional, Humensky, T. B., additional, Johnson, C. A., additional, Kaaret, P., additional, Kar, P., additional, Kelley-Hoskins, N., additional, Kertzman, M., additional, Kieda, D., additional, Krause, M., additional, Krennrich, F., additional, Kumar, S., additional, Lang, M. J., additional, Maier, G., additional, McArthur, S., additional, McCann, A., additional, Meagher, K., additional, Moriarty, P., additional, Mukherjee, R., additional, Nguyen, T., additional, Nieto, D., additional, O'Brien, S., additional, de Bhróithe, A. O'Faoláin, additional, Ong, R. A., additional, Otte, A. N., additional, Park, N., additional, Petrashyk, A., additional, Pichel, A., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Popkow, A., additional, Pueschel, E., additional, Quinn, J., additional, Ragan, K., additional, Reynolds, P. T., additional, Richards, G. T., additional, Roache, E., additional, Rovero, A. C., additional, Rulten, C., additional, Sadeh, I., additional, Santander, M., additional, Sembroski, G. H., additional, Shahinyan, K., additional, Telezhinsky, I., additional, Tucci, J. V., additional, Tyler, J., additional, Wakely, S. P., additional, Weinstein, A., additional, Wilhelm, A., additional, and Williams, D. A., additional
Published: 2017
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29. The most powerful flaring activity from the NLSyl PMN J0948+0022

Author: Orienti, M., Finke, J., Raiteri, C. M., Hovatta, T., Larsson, J., Max-Moerbeck, W., Perkins, J., Readhead, A. C. S., Richards, J. L., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Chen, Xuhui, Ciupik, L., Dickinson, H. J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gerard, L., Gillanders, G. H., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hakansson, Nils, Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pohl, Manuela, Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Pueschel, Elisa, Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, Igor O., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We report on multifrequency observations performed during 2012 December-2013 August of the first narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy detected in gamma-rays, PMN J0948+0022 (z = 0.5846). A y -ray flare was observed by the Large Area Telescope on board Fermi during 2012 December-2013 January, reaching a daily peak flux in the 0.1-100 GeV energy range of (155 31) x 10 8 ph cm(-2) S-1 on 2013 January 1, corresponding to an apparent isotropic luminosity of similar to 1.5 x 1048 erg s(-1). The y -ray flaring period triggered Swift and Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) observations in addition to radio and optical monitoring by Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Monitoring Of Jets in Active galactic nuclei with VLBA Experiments, and Catalina Real-time Transient Survey. A strong flare was observed in optical, UV, and X-rays on 2012 December 30, quasi-simultaneously to the y -ray flare, reaching a record flux for this source from optical to y gamma-rays. VERITAS observations at very high energy (E > 100 GeV) during 2013 January 6-17 resulted in an upper limit of F>0.2 Trev < 4.0 x 10(-12) ph cm(-2) s(-1). We compared the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the flaring state in 2013 January with that of an intermediate state observed in 2011. The two SEDs, modelled as synchrotron emission and an external Compton scattering of seed photons from a dust torus, can be modelled by changing both the electron distribution parameters and the magnetic field.
Published: 2015

30. VERITAS Collaboration Contributions to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference

Author: Veritas, The Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Barnacka, A., Benbow, W., Ralph Bird, Biteau, J., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Christiansen, J. L., Ciupik, L., Collins-Hughes, E., Connolly, M. P., Coppi, P., Cui, W., Dwarkadas, V. V., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Fernandez Alonso, M., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Gyuk, G., Hütten, M., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., Mcarthur, S., Mccann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nguyen, T., Nieto, D., O Faoláin Bhróithe, A., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pandel, D., Park, N., Pelassa, V., Perkins, J. S., Petrashyk, A., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rovero, A. C., Santander, M., Schlenstedt, S., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Vassiliev, V. V., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Compilation of papers presented by the VERITAS Collaboration at the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), held July 30 through August 6, 2015 in The Hague, The Netherlands., Comment: 1 html page. 2015 ICRC, The Hague, The Netherlands. A full list of author affiliations can be found at this link: http://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/conferences/authors?icrc2015
Published: 2015
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31. Very high-energy gamma-ray follow-up program using neutrino triggers from IceCube

Author: Aartsen, M. G., Abraham, K., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Altmann, D., Andeen, K., Anderson, T., Ansseau, I., Anton, G., Archinger, M., Arguelles, C., Auffenberg, J., Axani, S., Bai, X., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Tjus, J. Becker, Becker, K. -H, BenZvi, S., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blot, S., Bohm, C., Borner, M., Bos, F., Bose, D., Boser, S., Botner, Olga, Braun, J., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P, Bron, S., Burgman, Alexander, Carver, T., Casier, M., Cheung, E., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Clark, K., Classen, L., Coenders, S., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Cowen, D. F., Cross, R., Day, M., de Andre, J. P. A. M., De Clercq, C., Rosendo, E. del Pino, Dembinski, H., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de Wasseige, G., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Diaz-Velez, J. C., di Lorenzo, V., Dujmovic, H., Dumm, J. P., Dunkman, M., Eberhardt, B., Ehrhardt, T., Eichmann, B., Eller, P., Euler, Sebastian, Evenson, P. A., Fahey, S., Fazely, A. R., Feintzeig, J., Felde, J., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Flis, S., Fosig, C. -C, Franckowiak, A., Franke, R., Friedman, E., Fuchs, T., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Gerhardt, L., Ghorbani, K., Giang, W., Gladstone, L., Glauch, T., Glusenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Golup, G., Gonzalez, J. G., Grant, D., Griffith, Z., Haack, C., Ismail, A. Haj, Hallgren, Allan, Halzen, F., Hansen, E., Hansmann, T., Hanson, K., Hebecker, D., Heereman, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hickford, S., Hignight, J., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Holzapfel, K., Hoshina, K., Huang, F., Huber, M., Hultqvist, K., In, S., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Japaridze, G. S., Jeong, M., Jero, K., Jones, B. J. P., Jurkovic, M., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Katz, U., Kauer, M., Keivani, A., Kelley, J. L., Kheirandish, A., Kim, M., Kintscher, T., Kiryluk, J., Kittler, T., Klein, S. R., Kohnen, G., Koirala, R., Kolanoski, H., Konietz, R., Kopke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krings, K., Kroll, M., Kruckl, G., Kruger, C., Kunnen, J., Kunwar, S., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Labare, M., Lanfranchi, J. L., Larson, M. J., Lauber, F., Lennarz, D., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leuermann, M., Lu, L., Lunemann, J., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Mahn, K. B. M., Mancina, S., Mandelartz, M., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Maunu, R., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Medici, M., Meier, M., Meli, A., Menne, T., Merino, G., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Mohrmann, L., Montaruli, T., Moulai, M., Nahnhauer, R., Naumann, U., Neer, G., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Pollmann, A. Obertacke, Olivas, A., O'Murchadha, A., Palczewski, T., Pandya, H., Pankova, D. V., Peiffer, P., Penek, O., Pepper, J. A., de los Heros, Carlos Perez, Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Quinnan, M., Raab, C., Radel, L., Rameez, M., Rawlins, K., Reimann, R., Relethford, B., Relich, M., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Richman, M., Riedel, B., Robertson, S., Rongen, M., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ryckbosch, D., Rysewyk, D., Sabbatini, L., Herrera, S. E. Sanchez, Sandrock, A., Sandroos, J., Sarkar, S., Satalecka, K., Schlunder, P., Schmidt, T., Schoenen, S., Schoneberg, S., Schumacher, L., Seckel, D., Seunarine, S., Soldin, D., Song, M., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stanev, T., Stasik, A., Stettner, J., Steuer, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stossl, A., Ström, Rickard, Strotjohann, N. L., Sullivan, G. W., Sutherland, M., Taavola, Henric, Taboada, I., Tatar, J., Tenholt, F., Ter-Antonyan, S., Terliuk, A., Tesic, G., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Tobin, M. N., Toscano, S., Tosi, D., Tselengidou, M., Turcati, A., Unger, Elisabeth, Usner, M., Vandenbroucke, J., van Eijndhoven, N., Vanheule, S., van Rossem, M., van Santen, J., Veenkamp, J., Vehring, M., Voge, M., Vogel, E., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Wallace, A., Wallraff, M., Wandkowsky, N., Weaver, Ch., Weiss, M. J., Wendt, C., Westerhoff, S., Whelan, B. J., Wickmann, S., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Wille, L., Williams, D. R., Wills, L., Wolf, M., Wood, T. R., Woolsey, E., Woschnagg, K., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Xu, Y., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Zoll, M., Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., de Almeida, U. Barres, Barrio, J. A., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Berti, A., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Buson, S., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Wilhelmi, E. de Ona, Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Dominguez, A., Prester, D. Dominis, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Glawion, D. Eisenacher, Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fernandez-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Lopez, R. J. Garcia, Garczarczyk, M., Terrats, D. Garrido, Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinovic, N., Munoz, A. Gonzalez, Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Lopez-Coto, R., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Rosillo, M. Nievas, Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogues, L., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes-Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Reichardt, I., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Garcia, J. Rodriguez, Saito, T., Schroeder, S., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Sillanpaa, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Suric, T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., Abeysekara, A. U., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Bourbeau, E., Buchovecky, M., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Dumm, J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Hutten, M., Hakansson, N., Hervet, O., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nguyen, T., Nieto, D., O'Brien, S., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rulten, C., Sadeh, I., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Wilcox, P., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., Aartsen, M. G., Abraham, K., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Altmann, D., Andeen, K., Anderson, T., Ansseau, I., Anton, G., Archinger, M., Arguelles, C., Auffenberg, J., Axani, S., Bai, X., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Bay, R., Beatty, J. J., Tjus, J. Becker, Becker, K. -H, BenZvi, S., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blot, S., Bohm, C., Borner, M., Bos, F., Bose, D., Boser, S., Botner, Olga, Braun, J., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P, Bron, S., Burgman, Alexander, Carver, T., Casier, M., Cheung, E., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Clark, K., Classen, L., Coenders, S., Collin, G. H., Conrad, J. M., Cowen, D. F., Cross, R., Day, M., de Andre, J. P. A. M., De Clercq, C., Rosendo, E. del Pino, Dembinski, H., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de Wasseige, G., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Diaz-Velez, J. C., di Lorenzo, V., Dujmovic, H., Dumm, J. P., Dunkman, M., Eberhardt, B., Ehrhardt, T., Eichmann, B., Eller, P., Euler, Sebastian, Evenson, P. A., Fahey, S., Fazely, A. R., Feintzeig, J., Felde, J., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Flis, S., Fosig, C. -C, Franckowiak, A., Franke, R., Friedman, E., Fuchs, T., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Gerhardt, L., Ghorbani, K., Giang, W., Gladstone, L., Glauch, T., Glusenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Golup, G., Gonzalez, J. G., Grant, D., Griffith, Z., Haack, C., Ismail, A. Haj, Hallgren, Allan, Halzen, F., Hansen, E., Hansmann, T., Hanson, K., Hebecker, D., Heereman, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hickford, S., Hignight, J., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Holzapfel, K., Hoshina, K., Huang, F., Huber, M., Hultqvist, K., In, S., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Japaridze, G. S., Jeong, M., Jero, K., Jones, B. J. P., Jurkovic, M., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Katz, U., Kauer, M., Keivani, A., Kelley, J. L., Kheirandish, A., Kim, M., Kintscher, T., Kiryluk, J., Kittler, T., Klein, S. R., Kohnen, G., Koirala, R., Kolanoski, H., Konietz, R., Kopke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Krings, K., Kroll, M., Kruckl, G., Kruger, C., Kunnen, J., Kunwar, S., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Labare, M., Lanfranchi, J. L., Larson, M. J., Lauber, F., Lennarz, D., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leuermann, M., Lu, L., Lunemann, J., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Mahn, K. B. M., Mancina, S., Mandelartz, M., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Maunu, R., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Medici, M., Meier, M., Meli, A., Menne, T., Merino, G., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Mohrmann, L., Montaruli, T., Moulai, M., Nahnhauer, R., Naumann, U., Neer, G., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Pollmann, A. Obertacke, Olivas, A., O'Murchadha, A., Palczewski, T., Pandya, H., Pankova, D. V., Peiffer, P., Penek, O., Pepper, J. A., de los Heros, Carlos Perez, Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Quinnan, M., Raab, C., Radel, L., Rameez, M., Rawlins, K., Reimann, R., Relethford, B., Relich, M., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Richman, M., Riedel, B., Robertson, S., Rongen, M., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ryckbosch, D., Rysewyk, D., Sabbatini, L., Herrera, S. E. Sanchez, Sandrock, A., Sandroos, J., Sarkar, S., Satalecka, K., Schlunder, P., Schmidt, T., Schoenen, S., Schoneberg, S., Schumacher, L., Seckel, D., Seunarine, S., Soldin, D., Song, M., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stanev, T., Stasik, A., Stettner, J., Steuer, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stossl, A., Ström, Rickard, Strotjohann, N. L., Sullivan, G. W., Sutherland, M., Taavola, Henric, Taboada, I., Tatar, J., Tenholt, F., Ter-Antonyan, S., Terliuk, A., Tesic, G., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Tobin, M. N., Toscano, S., Tosi, D., Tselengidou, M., Turcati, A., Unger, Elisabeth, Usner, M., Vandenbroucke, J., van Eijndhoven, N., Vanheule, S., van Rossem, M., van Santen, J., Veenkamp, J., Vehring, M., Voge, M., Vogel, E., Vraeghe, M., Walck, C., Wallace, A., Wallraff, M., Wandkowsky, N., Weaver, Ch., Weiss, M. J., Wendt, C., Westerhoff, S., Whelan, B. J., Wickmann, S., Wiebe, K., Wiebusch, C. H., Wille, L., Williams, D. R., Wills, L., Wolf, M., Wood, T. R., Woolsey, E., Woschnagg, K., Xu, D. L., Xu, X. W., Xu, Y., Yanez, J. P., Yodh, G., Yoshida, S., Zoll, M., Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., de Almeida, U. Barres, Barrio, J. A., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Berti, A., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Buson, S., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Wilhelmi, E. de Ona, Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Dominguez, A., Prester, D. Dominis, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Glawion, D. Eisenacher, Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fernandez-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Lopez, R. J. Garcia, Garczarczyk, M., Terrats, D. Garrido, Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinovic, N., Munoz, A. Gonzalez, Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Lopez-Coto, R., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Rosillo, M. Nievas, Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogues, L., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes-Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Reichardt, I., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Garcia, J. Rodriguez, Saito, T., Schroeder, S., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Sillanpaa, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Suric, T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., Abeysekara, A. U., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Bourbeau, E., Buchovecky, M., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Dumm, J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Hutten, M., Hakansson, N., Hervet, O., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nguyen, T., Nieto, D., O'Brien, S., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rulten, C., Sadeh, I., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Wilcox, P., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Abstract: We describe and report the status of a neutrino-triggered program in IceCube that generates real-time alerts for gamma-ray follow-up observations by atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes (MAGIC and VERITAS). While IceCube is capable of monitoring the whole sky continuously, high-energy gamma-ray telescopes have restricted fields of view and in general are unlikely to be observing a potential neutrino-flaring source at the time such neutrinos are recorded. The use of neutrino-triggered alerts thus aims at increasing the availability of simultaneous multi-messenger data during potential neutrino flaring activity, which can increase the discovery potential and constrain the phenomenological interpretation of the high-energy emission of selected source classes (e. g. blazars). The requirements of a fast and stable online analysis of potential neutrino signals and its operation are presented, along with first results of the program operating between 14 March 2012 and 31 December 2015.
Published: 2016
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32. A SEARCH FOR VERY HIGH ENERGY GAMMA RAYS FROM THE MISSING LINK BINARY PULSAR J1023+0038 WITH VERITAS

Author: Aliu, E., primary, Archambault, S., additional, Archer, A., additional, Benbow, W., additional, Bird, R., additional, Biteau, J., additional, Buchovecky, M., additional, Buckley, J. H., additional, Bugaev, V., additional, Byrum, K., additional, Cardenzana, J. V, additional, Cerruti, M., additional, Chen, X., additional, Ciupik, L., additional, Connolly, M. P., additional, Cui, W., additional, Dickinson, H. J., additional, Eisch, J. D., additional, Falcone, A., additional, Feng, Q., additional, Finley, J. P., additional, Fleischhack, H., additional, Flinders, A., additional, Fortin, P., additional, Fortson, L., additional, Furniss, A., additional, Gillanders, G. H., additional, Griffin, S., additional, Grube, J., additional, Gyuk, G., additional, Hütten, M., additional, Håkansson, N., additional, Holder, J., additional, Humensky, T. B., additional, Johnson, C. A., additional, Kaaret, P., additional, Kar, P., additional, Kelley-Hoskins, N., additional, Kertzman, M., additional, Kieda, D., additional, Krause, M., additional, Lang, M. J., additional, Loo, A., additional, Maier, G., additional, McArthur, S., additional, McCann, A., additional, Meagher, K., additional, Moriarty, P., additional, Mukherjee, R., additional, Nguyen, T., additional, Nieto, D., additional, Bhróithe, A. O’Faoláin de, additional, Ong, R. A., additional, Otte, A. N., additional, Pandel, D., additional, Park, N., additional, Pelassa, V., additional, Petrashyk, A., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Popkow, A., additional, Pueschel, E., additional, Quinn, J., additional, Ragan, K., additional, Reynolds, P. T., additional, Richards, G. T., additional, Roache, E., additional, Rulten, C., additional, Santander, M., additional, Sembroski, G. H., additional, Shahinyan, K., additional, Smith, A. W., additional, Staszak, D., additional, Telezhinsky, I., additional, Tucci, J. V., additional, Tyler, J., additional, Varlotta, A., additional, Vincent, S., additional, Wakely, S. P., additional, Weiner, O. M., additional, Weinstein, A., additional, Wilhelm, A., additional, Williams, D. A., additional, Zitzer, B., additional, Chernyakova, M., additional, and Roberts, M. S. E., additional
Published: 2016
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33. Discovery of very high energy gamma rays from 1ES 1440+122

Author: Archambault, S., primary, Archer, A., additional, Barnacka, A., additional, Behera, B., additional, Beilicke, M., additional, Benbow, W., additional, Berger, K., additional, Bird, R., additional, Böttcher, M., additional, Buckley, J. H., additional, Bugaev, V., additional, Cardenzana, J. V, additional, Cerruti, M., additional, Chen, X., additional, Christiansen, J. L., additional, Ciupik, L., additional, Collins-Hughes, E., additional, Connolly, M. P., additional, Cui, W., additional, Dickinson, H. J., additional, Dumm, J., additional, Eisch, J. D., additional, Errando, M., additional, Falcone, A., additional, Federici, S., additional, Feng, Q., additional, Finley, J. P., additional, Fleischhack, H., additional, Fortson, L., additional, Furniss, A., additional, Gillanders, G. H., additional, Godambe, S., additional, Griffin, S., additional, Griffiths, S. T., additional, Grube, J., additional, Gyuk, G., additional, Håkansson, N., additional, Hanna, D., additional, Holder, J., additional, Hughes, G., additional, Johnson, C. A., additional, Kaaret, P., additional, Kar, P., additional, Kertzman, M., additional, Khassen, Y., additional, Kieda, D., additional, Krawczynski, H., additional, Kumar, S., additional, Lang, M. J., additional, Madhavan, A. S, additional, Maier, G., additional, McArthur, S., additional, McCann, A., additional, Meagher, K., additional, Millis, J., additional, Moriarty, P., additional, Nelson, T., additional, Nieto, D., additional, de Bhróithe, A. O'Faoláin, additional, Ong, R. A., additional, Otte, A. N., additional, Park, N., additional, Perkins, J. S., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Popkow, A., additional, Prokoph, H., additional, Pueschel, E., additional, Quinn, J., additional, Ragan, K., additional, Rajotte, J., additional, Reyes, L. C., additional, Reynolds, P. T., additional, Richards, G. T., additional, Roache, E., additional, Sembroski, G. H., additional, Shahinyan, K., additional, Smith, A. W., additional, Staszak, D., additional, Sweeney, K, additional, Telezhinsky, I., additional, Tucci, J. V., additional, Tyler, J., additional, Varlotta, A., additional, Vassiliev, V. V., additional, Wakely, S. P., additional, Welsing, R., additional, Wilhelm, A., additional, Williams, D. A., additional, and Zitzer, B., additional
Published: 2016
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34. TEV GAMMA-RAY OBSERVATIONS OF THE GALACTIC CENTER RIDGE BY VERITAS

Author: Archer, A., primary, Benbow, W., additional, Bird, R., additional, Buchovecky, M., additional, Buckley, J. H., additional, Bugaev, V., additional, Byrum, K., additional, Cardenzana, J. V, additional, Cerruti, M., additional, Chen, X., additional, Ciupik, L., additional, Collins-Hughes, E., additional, Connolly, M. P., additional, Eisch, J. D., additional, Falcone, A., additional, Feng, Q., additional, Finley, J. P., additional, Fleischhack, H., additional, Flinders, A., additional, Fortson, L., additional, Furniss, A., additional, Gillanders, G. H., additional, Griffin, S., additional, Grube, J., additional, Gyuk, G., additional, Håkansson, N., additional, Hanna, D., additional, Holder, J., additional, Humensky, T. B., additional, Hütten, M., additional, Johnson, C. A., additional, Kaaret, P., additional, Kar, P., additional, Kelley-Hoskins, N., additional, Kertzman, M., additional, Kieda, D., additional, Krause, M., additional, Krennrich, F., additional, Kumar, S., additional, Lang, M. J., additional, McArthur, S., additional, McCann, A., additional, Meagher, K., additional, Millis, J., additional, Moriarty, P., additional, Mukherjee, R., additional, Nieto, D., additional, Ong, R. A., additional, Park, N., additional, Pelassa, V., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Popkow, A., additional, Pueschel, E., additional, Quinn, J., additional, Ragan, K., additional, Ratliff, G., additional, Reynolds, P. T., additional, Richards, G. T., additional, Roache, E., additional, Rousselle, J., additional, Santander, M., additional, Sembroski, G. H., additional, Shahinyan, K., additional, Smith, A. W., additional, Staszak, D., additional, Telezhinsky, I., additional, Tucci, J. V., additional, Tyler, J., additional, Vassiliev, V. V., additional, Wakely, S. P., additional, Weiner, O. M., additional, Weinstein, A., additional, Wilhelm, A., additional, Williams, D. A., additional, Zitzer, B., additional, and Yusef-Zadeh, F., additional
Published: 2016
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35. VERITAS and multiwavelength observations of the BL Lacertae object 1ES 1741+196

Author: Abeysekara, A. U., primary, Archambault, S., additional, Archer, A., additional, Benbow, W., additional, Bird, R., additional, Biteau, J., additional, Buchovecky, M., additional, Buckley, J. H., additional, Bugaev, V., additional, Byrum, K., additional, Cardenzana, J. V, additional, Cerruti, M., additional, Chen, X., additional, Christiansen, J. L., additional, Ciupik, L., additional, Connolly, M. P., additional, Cui, W., additional, Dickinson, H. J., additional, Dumm, J., additional, Eisch, J. D., additional, Errando, M., additional, Falcone, A., additional, Feng, Q., additional, Finley, J. P., additional, Fleischhack, H., additional, Flinders, A., additional, Fortin, P., additional, Fortson, L., additional, Furniss, A., additional, Gillanders, G. H., additional, Griffin, S., additional, Grube, J., additional, Gyuk, G., additional, Huetten, M., additional, Hanna, D., additional, Holder, J., additional, Humensky, T. B., additional, Johnson, C. A., additional, Kaaret, P., additional, Kar, P., additional, Kelley-Hoskins, N., additional, Kertzman, M., additional, Kieda, D., additional, Krause, M., additional, Krennrich, F., additional, Lang, M. J., additional, Maier, G., additional, McArthur, S., additional, McCann, A., additional, Meagher, K., additional, Moriarty, P., additional, Mukherjee, R., additional, Nieto, D., additional, O'Brien, S., additional, O'Faoláin de Bhróithe, A., additional, Ong, R. A., additional, Otte, A. N., additional, Park, N., additional, Pelassa, V., additional, Petrashyk, A., additional, Petry, D., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Popkow, A., additional, Pueschel, E., additional, Quinn, J., additional, Ragan, K., additional, Ratliff, G., additional, Reyes, L. C., additional, Reynolds, P. T., additional, Reynolds, K., additional, Richards, G. T., additional, Roache, E., additional, Rulten, C., additional, Santander, M., additional, Sembroski, G. H., additional, Shahinyan, K., additional, Smith, A. W., additional, Staszak, D., additional, Telezhinsky, I., additional, Tucci, J. V., additional, Tyler, J., additional, Vincent, S., additional, Wakely, S. P., additional, Weiner, O. M., additional, Weinstein, A., additional, Wilhelm, A., additional, Williams, D. A., additional, and Zitzer, B., additional
Published: 2016
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36. A SEARCH FOR BRIEF OPTICAL FLASHES ASSOCIATED WITH THE SETI TARGET KIC 8462852

Author: Abeysekara, A. U., primary, Archambault, S., additional, Archer, A., additional, Benbow, W., additional, Bird, R., additional, Buchovecky, M., additional, Buckley, J. H., additional, Byrum, K., additional, Cardenzana, J. V, additional, Cerruti, M., additional, Chen, X., additional, Christiansen, J. L., additional, Ciupik, L., additional, Cui, W., additional, Dickinson, H. J., additional, Eisch, J. D., additional, Errando, M., additional, Falcone, A., additional, Fegan, D. J., additional, Feng, Q., additional, Finley, J. P., additional, Fleischhack, H., additional, Fortin, P., additional, Fortson, L., additional, Furniss, A., additional, Gillanders, G. H., additional, Griffin, S., additional, Grube, J., additional, Gyuk, G., additional, Hütten, M., additional, Håkansson, N., additional, Hanna, D., additional, Holder, J., additional, Humensky, T. B., additional, Johnson, C. A., additional, Kaaret, P., additional, Kar, P., additional, Kelley-Hoskins, N., additional, Kertzman, M., additional, Kieda, D., additional, Krause, M., additional, Krennrich, F., additional, Kumar, S., additional, Lang, M. J., additional, Lin, T. T. Y., additional, Maier, G., additional, McArthur, S., additional, McCann, A., additional, Meagher, K., additional, Moriarty, P., additional, Mukherjee, R., additional, Nieto, D., additional, O’Brien, S., additional, Bhróithe, A. O’Faoláin de, additional, Ong, R. A., additional, Otte, A. N., additional, Park, N., additional, Perkins, J. S., additional, Petrashyk, A., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Popkow, A., additional, Pueschel, E., additional, Quinn, J., additional, Ragan, K., additional, Ratliff, G., additional, Reynolds, P. T., additional, Richards, G. T., additional, Roache, E., additional, Santander, M., additional, Sembroski, G. H., additional, Shahinyan, K., additional, Staszak, D., additional, Telezhinsky, I., additional, Tucci, J. V., additional, Tyler, J., additional, Vincent, S., additional, Wakely, S. P., additional, Weiner, O. M., additional, Weinstein, A., additional, Williams, D. A., additional, and Zitzer, B., additional
Published: 2016
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37. EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT TEV FLARES FROM THE BINARY LS I +61° 303

Author: Archambault, S., primary, Archer, A., additional, Aune, T., additional, Barnacka, A., additional, Benbow, W., additional, Bird, R., additional, Buchovecky, M., additional, Buckley, J. H., additional, Bugaev, V., additional, Byrum, K., additional, Cardenzana, J. V, additional, Cerruti, M., additional, Chen, X., additional, Ciupik, L., additional, Collins-Hughes, E., additional, Connolly, M. P., additional, Cui, W., additional, Dickinson, H. J., additional, Dumm, J., additional, Eisch, J. D., additional, Falcone, A., additional, Feng, Q., additional, Finley, J. P., additional, Fleischhack, H., additional, Flinders, A., additional, Fortin, P., additional, Fortson, L., additional, Furniss, A., additional, Gillanders, G. H., additional, Griffin, S., additional, Grube, J., additional, Gyuk, G., additional, Hütten, M., additional, Håkansson, N., additional, Hanna, D., additional, Holder, J., additional, Humensky, T. B., additional, Johnson, C. A., additional, Kaaret, P., additional, Kar, P., additional, Kelley-Hoskins, N., additional, Kertzman, M., additional, Khassen, Y., additional, Kieda, D., additional, Krause, M., additional, Krennrich, F., additional, Kumar, S., additional, Lang, M. J., additional, Maier, G., additional, McArthur, S., additional, McCann, A., additional, Meagher, K., additional, Millis, J., additional, Moriarty, P., additional, Mukherjee, R., additional, Nieto, D., additional, O’Brien, S., additional, Bhróithe, A. O’Faoláin de, additional, Ong, R. A., additional, Otte, A. N., additional, Pandel, D., additional, Park, N., additional, Pelassa, V., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Popkow, A., additional, Pueschel, E., additional, Quinn, J., additional, Ragan, K., additional, Reynolds, P. T., additional, Richards, G. T., additional, Roache, E., additional, Rousselle, J., additional, Rulten, C., additional, Santander, M., additional, Sembroski, G. H., additional, Shahinyan, K., additional, Smith, A. W., additional, Staszak, D., additional, Telezhinsky, I., additional, Tucci, J. V., additional, Tyler, J., additional, Vincent, S., additional, Wakely, S. P., additional, Weiner, O. M., additional, Weinstein, A., additional, Wilhelm, A., additional, Williams, D. A., additional, and Zitzer, B., additional
Published: 2016
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38. The most powerful flaring activity from the NLSyl PMN J0948+0022

Author: D'Ammando, F., Orienti, M., Finke, J., Raiteri, C. M., Hovatta, T., Larsson, Josefin, Max-Moerbeck, W., Perkins, J., Readhead, A. C. S., Richards, J. L., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Dickinson, H. J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gerard, L., Gillanders, G. H., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Håkansson, N., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., de Bhroithe, A. O'Faolain, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., D'Ammando, F., Orienti, M., Finke, J., Raiteri, C. M., Hovatta, T., Larsson, Josefin, Max-Moerbeck, W., Perkins, J., Readhead, A. C. S., Richards, J. L., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Dickinson, H. J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gerard, L., Gillanders, G. H., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Håkansson, N., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., de Bhroithe, A. O'Faolain, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Abstract: We report on multifrequency observations performed during 2012 December-2013 August of the first narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy detected in gamma-rays, PMN J0948+0022 (z = 0.5846). A y -ray flare was observed by the Large Area Telescope on board Fermi during 2012 December-2013 January, reaching a daily peak flux in the 0.1-100 GeV energy range of (155 31) x 10 8 ph cm(-2) S-1 on 2013 January 1, corresponding to an apparent isotropic luminosity of similar to 1.5 x 1048 erg s(-1). The y -ray flaring period triggered Swift and Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) observations in addition to radio and optical monitoring by Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Monitoring Of Jets in Active galactic nuclei with VLBA Experiments, and Catalina Real-time Transient Survey. A strong flare was observed in optical, UV, and X-rays on 2012 December 30, quasi-simultaneously to the y -ray flare, reaching a record flux for this source from optical to y gamma-rays. VERITAS observations at very high energy (E > 100 GeV) during 2013 January 6-17 resulted in an upper limit of F>0.2 Trev < 4.0 x 10(-12) ph cm(-2) s(-1). We compared the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the flaring state in 2013 January with that of an intermediate state observed in 2011. The two SEDs, modelled as synchrotron emission and an external Compton scattering of seed photons from a dust torus, can be modelled by changing both the electron distribution parameters and the magnetic field., QC 20150407
Published: 2015
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39. The most powerful flaring activity from the NLSy1 PMN J0948+0022

Author: D’Ammando, F., Orienti, M., Finke, J., Raiteri, C. M., Hovatta, T., Larsson, J., Max-Moerbeck, W., Perkins, J., Readhead, A. C. S., Richards, J. L., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Dickinson, H. J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gerard, L., Gillanders, G. H., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Håkansson, N., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., de Bhróithe, A. O., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, Heike, Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., D’Ammando, F., Orienti, M., Finke, J., Raiteri, C. M., Hovatta, T., Larsson, J., Max-Moerbeck, W., Perkins, J., Readhead, A. C. S., Richards, J. L., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Dickinson, H. J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gerard, L., Gillanders, G. H., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Håkansson, N., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., de Bhróithe, A. O., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, Heike, Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Abstract: We report on multifrequency observations performed during 2012 December–2013 August of the first narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy detected in γ-rays, PMN J0948+0022 (z = 0.5846). A γ-ray flare was observed by the Large Area Telescope on board Fermi during 2012 December–2013 January, reaching a daily peak flux in the 0.1–100 GeV energy range of (155 ± 31) × 10−8 ph cm−2 s−1 on 2013 January 1, corresponding to an apparent isotropic luminosity of ∼1.5 × 1048 erg s−1. The γ-ray flaring period triggered Swift and Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) observations in addition to radio and optical monitoring by Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Monitoring Of Jets in Active galactic nuclei with VLBA Experiments, and Catalina Real-time Transient Survey. A strong flare was observed in optical, UV, and X-rays on 2012 December 30, quasi-simultaneously to the γ-ray flare, reaching a record flux for this source from optical to γ-rays. VERITAS observations at very high energy (E > 100 GeV) during 2013 January 6–17 resulted in an upper limit of F>0.2 TeV < 4.0 × 10−12 ph cm−2 s−1. We compared the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the flaring state in 2013 January with that of an intermediate state observed in 2011. The two SEDs, modelled as synchrotron emission and an external Compton scattering of seed photons from a dust torus, can be modelled by changing both the electron distribution parameters and the magnetic field.
Published: 2015
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40. VERITAS contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference

Author: Veritas, Collaboration, Aliu, E., Archambault, S., Aune, T., Behera, B., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Ralph Bird, Bouvier, A., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dumm, J., Dwarkadas, V. V., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Federici, S., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Galante, N., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Kaaret, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krawczynski, H., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Madhavan, A. S., Maier, G., Majumdar, P., Mcarthur, S., Mccann, A., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nelson, T., Nieto, D., Bhroithe O Faolain, A., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Perkins, J. S., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Rajotte, J., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Sembroski, G. H., Sheidaei, F., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Theiling, M., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vincent, S., Wagner, R. G., Wakely, S. P., Weekes, T. C., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Compilation of papers contributed by the VERITAS Collaboration to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, held 2-9 July, 2013, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Published: 2013

41. A SEARCH FOR PULSATIONS FROM GEMINGA ABOVE 100 GeV WITH VERITAS

Author: Aliu, E., primary, Archambault, S., additional, Archer, A., additional, Aune, T., additional, Barnacka, A., additional, Beilicke, M., additional, Benbow, W., additional, Bird, R., additional, Buckley, J. H., additional, Bugaev, V., additional, Byrum, K., additional, Cardenzana, J. V., additional, Cerruti, M., additional, Chen, X., additional, Ciupik, L., additional, Connolly, M. P., additional, Cui, W., additional, Dickinson, H. J., additional, Dumm, J., additional, Eisch, J. D., additional, Errando, M., additional, Falcone, A., additional, Feng, Q., additional, Finley, J. P., additional, Fleischhack, H., additional, Fortin, P., additional, Fortson, L., additional, Furniss, A., additional, Gillanders, G. H., additional, Griffin, S., additional, Griffiths, S. T., additional, Grube, J., additional, Gyuk, G., additional, Håkansson, N., additional, Hanna, D., additional, Holder, J., additional, Humensky, T. B., additional, Johnson, C. A., additional, Kaaret, P., additional, Kar, P., additional, Kertzman, M., additional, Kieda, D., additional, Krennrich, F., additional, Kumar, S., additional, Lang, M. J., additional, Lyutikov, M., additional, Madhavan, A. S, additional, Maier, G., additional, McArthur, S., additional, McCann, A., additional, Meagher, K., additional, Millis, J., additional, Moriarty, P., additional, Mukherjee, R., additional, Nieto, D., additional, O'Faoláin de Bhróithe, A., additional, Ong, R. A., additional, Otte, A. N., additional, Park, N., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Popkow, A., additional, Prokoph, H., additional, Pueschel, E., additional, Quinn, J., additional, Ragan, K., additional, Reyes, L. C., additional, Reynolds, P. T., additional, Richards, G. T., additional, Roache, E., additional, Santander, M., additional, Sembroski, G. H., additional, Shahinyan, K., additional, Smith, A. W., additional, Staszak, D., additional, Telezhinsky, I., additional, Tucci, J. V., additional, Tyler, J., additional, Varlotta, A., additional, Vincent, S., additional, Wakely, S. P., additional, Weinstein, A., additional, Williams, D. A., additional, Zajczyk, A., additional, and Zitzer, B., additional
Published: 2015
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42. VERITAS OBSERVATIONS OF THE BL LAC OBJECT PG 1553+113

Author: Aliu, E., primary, Archer, A., additional, Aune, T., additional, Barnacka, A., additional, Behera, B., additional, Beilicke, M., additional, Benbow, W., additional, Berger, K., additional, Bird, R., additional, Buckley, J. H., additional, Bugaev, V., additional, Byrum, K., additional, Cardenzana, J. V, additional, Cerruti, M., additional, Chen, X., additional, Ciupik, L., additional, Connolly, M. P., additional, Cui, W., additional, Dickinson, H. J., additional, Dumm, J., additional, Eisch, J. D., additional, Errando, M., additional, Falcone, A., additional, Federici, S., additional, Feng, Q., additional, Finley, J. P., additional, Fortin, P., additional, Fortson, L., additional, Furniss, A., additional, Galante, N., additional, Gillanders, G. H., additional, Griffin, S., additional, Griffiths, S. T., additional, Grube, J., additional, Gyuk, G., additional, Håkansson, N., additional, Hanna, D., additional, Holder, J., additional, Hughes, G., additional, Humensky, T. B., additional, Johnson, C. A., additional, Kaaret, P., additional, Kar, P., additional, Kertzman, M., additional, Khassen, Y., additional, Kieda, D., additional, Krawczynski, H., additional, Krennrich, F., additional, Kumar, S., additional, Lang, M. J., additional, Madhavan, A., additional, McArthur, S., additional, McCann, A., additional, Meagher, K., additional, Millis, J., additional, Moriarty, P., additional, Nieto, D., additional, O'Faoláin de Bhróithe, A., additional, Ong, R. A., additional, Orr, M., additional, Otte, A. N., additional, Park, N., additional, Perkins, J. S., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Popkow, A., additional, Prokoph, H., additional, Pueschel, E., additional, Quinn, J., additional, Ragan, K., additional, Rajotte, J., additional, Reyes, L. C., additional, Reynolds, P. T., additional, Richards, G. T., additional, Roache, E., additional, Sembroski, G. H., additional, Shahinyan, K., additional, Staszak, D., additional, Telezhinsky, I., additional, Tucci, J. V., additional, Tyler, J., additional, Varlotta, A., additional, Vassiliev, V. V., additional, Wakely, S. P., additional, Weinstein, A., additional, Welsing, R., additional, Wilhelm, A., additional, Williams, D. A., additional, and Zitzer, B., additional
Published: 2015
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43. Observations of the Unidentified Gamma-Ray Source TeV J2032+4130 by VERITAS

Author: Aliu, E., Aune, T., Behera, B., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Duke, C., Dumm, J., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Federici, S., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Galante, N., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Kaaret, P., Kargaltsev, O., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krawczynski, H., Lang, M. J., Madhavan, A. S., Maier, G., Majumdar, P., McCann, A., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., O’Faoláin de Bhróithe, A., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pandel, D., Perkins, J. S., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, Heike, Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Rajotte, J., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Sembroski, G. H., Skole, C., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Theiling, M., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weekes, T. C., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., Aliu, E., Aune, T., Behera, B., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Duke, C., Dumm, J., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Federici, S., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Galante, N., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Kaaret, P., Kargaltsev, O., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krawczynski, H., Lang, M. J., Madhavan, A. S., Maier, G., Majumdar, P., McCann, A., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., O’Faoláin de Bhróithe, A., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pandel, D., Perkins, J. S., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, Heike, Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Rajotte, J., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Sembroski, G. H., Skole, C., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Theiling, M., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weekes, T. C., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Abstract: TeV J2032+4130 was the first unidentified source discovered at very high energies (VHEs; E > 100 GeV), with no obvious counterpart in any other wavelength. It is also the first extended source to be observed in VHE gamma rays. Following its discovery, intensive observational campaigns have been carried out in all wavelengths in order to understand the nature of the object, which have met with limited success. We report here on a deep observation of TeV J2032+4130 based on 48.2 hr of data taken from 2009 to 2012 by the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System experiment. The source is detected at 8.7 standard deviations (σ) and is found to be extended and asymmetric with a width of 9.'5 ± 1.'2 along the major axis and 4.'0 ± 0.'5 along the minor axis. The spectrum is well described by a differential power law with an index of 2.10 ± 0.14stat ± 0.21sys and a normalization of (9.5 ± 1.6stat ± 2.2sys) × 10–13 TeV–1 cm–2 s–1 at 1 TeV. We interpret these results in the context of multiwavelength scenarios which particularly favor the pulsar wind nebula interpretation.
Published: 2014
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44. CONSTRAINTS ON VERY HIGH ENERGY EMISSION FROM GRB 130427A

Author: Aliu, E., primary, Aune, T., additional, Barnacka, A., additional, Beilicke, M., additional, Benbow, W., additional, Berger, K., additional, Biteau, J., additional, Buckley, J. H., additional, Bugaev, V., additional, Byrum, K., additional, Cardenzana, J. V, additional, Cerruti, M., additional, Chen, X., additional, Ciupik, L., additional, Connaughton, V., additional, Cui, W., additional, Dickinson, H. J., additional, Eisch, J. D., additional, Errando, M., additional, Falcone, A., additional, Federici, S., additional, Feng, Q., additional, Finley, J. P., additional, Fleischhack, H., additional, Fortin, P., additional, Fortson, L., additional, Furniss, A., additional, Galante, N., additional, Gillanders, G. H., additional, Griffin, S., additional, Griffiths, S. T., additional, Grube, J., additional, Gyuk, G., additional, Håkansson, N., additional, Hanna, D., additional, Holder, J., additional, Hughes, G., additional, Humensky, T. B., additional, Johnson, C. A., additional, Kaaret, P., additional, Kar, P., additional, Kertzman, M., additional, Khassen, Y., additional, Kieda, D., additional, Krawczynski, H., additional, Krennrich, F., additional, Lang, M. J., additional, Madhavan, A. S, additional, Maier, G., additional, McArthur, S., additional, McCann, A., additional, Meagher, K., additional, Millis, J., additional, Moriarty, P., additional, Mukherjee, R., additional, Nieto, D., additional, O'Faoláin de Bhróithe, A., additional, Ong, R. A., additional, Otte, A. N., additional, Park, N., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Popkow, A., additional, Prokoph, H., additional, Pueschel, E., additional, Quinn, J., additional, Ragan, K., additional, Rajotte, J., additional, Reyes, L. C., additional, Reynolds, P. T., additional, Richards, G. T., additional, Roache, E., additional, Sembroski, G. H., additional, Shahinyan, K., additional, Smith, A. W., additional, Staszak, D., additional, Telezhinsky, I., additional, Tucci, J. V., additional, Tyler, J., additional, Varlotta, A., additional, Vassiliev, V. V., additional, Vincent, S., additional, Wakely, S. P., additional, Weiner, O. M., additional, Weinstein, A., additional, Welsing, R., additional, Wilhelm, A., additional, Williams, D. A., additional, Zitzer, B., additional, McEnery, J. E., additional, Perkins, J. S., additional, Veres, P., additional, and Zhu, S., additional
Published: 2014
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45. VERY-HIGH ENERGY OBSERVATIONS OF THE GALACTIC CENTER REGION BY VERITAS IN 2010-2012

Author: Archer, A., primary, Barnacka, A., additional, Beilicke, M., additional, Benbow, W., additional, Berger, K., additional, Bird, R., additional, Biteau, J., additional, Buckley, J. H., additional, Bugaev, V., additional, Byrum, K., additional, Cardenzana, J. V, additional, Cerruti, M., additional, Chen, W., additional, Chen, X., additional, Ciupik, L., additional, Connolly, M. P., additional, Cui, W., additional, Dickinson, H. J., additional, Dumm, J., additional, Eisch, J. D., additional, Falcone, A., additional, Federici, S., additional, Feng, Q., additional, Finley, J. P., additional, Fleischhack, H., additional, Fortson, L., additional, Furniss, A., additional, Galante, N., additional, Griffin, S., additional, Griffiths, S. T., additional, Grube, J., additional, Gyuk, G., additional, Håkansson, N., additional, Hanna, D., additional, Holder, J., additional, Hughes, G., additional, Johnson, C. A., additional, Kaaret, P., additional, Kar, P., additional, Kertzman, M., additional, Khassen, Y., additional, Kieda, D., additional, Krawczynski, H., additional, Kumar, S., additional, Lang, M. J., additional, Maier, G., additional, McArthur, S., additional, McCann, A., additional, Meagher, K., additional, Moriarty, P., additional, Mukherjee, R., additional, Nieto, D., additional, O'Faoláin de Bhróithe, A., additional, Ong, R. A., additional, Otte, A. N., additional, Park, N., additional, Perkins, J. S., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Popkow, A., additional, Prokoph, H., additional, Pueschel, E., additional, Quinn, J., additional, Ragan, K., additional, Rajotte, J., additional, Reyes, L. C., additional, Reynolds, P. T., additional, Richards, G. T., additional, Roache, E., additional, Sembroski, G. H., additional, Shahinyan, K., additional, Smith, A. W., additional, Staszak, D., additional, Telezhinsky, I., additional, Tucci, J. V., additional, Tyler, J., additional, Varlotta, A., additional, Vincent, S., additional, Wakely, S. P., additional, Weinstein, A., additional, Welsing, R., additional, Wilhelm, A., additional, Williams, D. A., additional, Zajczyk, A., additional, and Zitzer, B., additional
Published: 2014
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46. INVESTIGATING THE TeV MORPHOLOGY OF MGRO J1908+06 WITH VERITAS

Author: Aliu, E., primary, Archambault, S., additional, Aune, T., additional, Behera, B., additional, Beilicke, M., additional, Benbow, W., additional, Berger, K., additional, Bird, R., additional, Buckley, J. H., additional, Bugaev, V., additional, Cardenzana, J. V, additional, Cerruti, M., additional, Chen, X., additional, Ciupik, L., additional, Collins-Hughes, E., additional, Connolly, M. P., additional, Cui, W., additional, Dumm, J., additional, Dwarkadas, V. V., additional, Errando, M., additional, Falcone, A., additional, Federici, S., additional, Feng, Q., additional, Finley, J. P., additional, Fleischhack, H., additional, Fortin, P., additional, Fortson, L., additional, Furniss, A., additional, Galante, N., additional, Gall, D., additional, Gillanders, G. H., additional, Griffin, S., additional, Griffiths, S. T., additional, Grube, J., additional, Gyuk, G., additional, Hanna, D., additional, Holder, J., additional, Hughes, G., additional, Humensky, T. B., additional, Kaaret, P., additional, Kertzman, M., additional, Khassen, Y., additional, Kieda, D., additional, Krennrich, F., additional, Kumar, S., additional, Lang, M. J., additional, Madhavan, A. S, additional, Maier, G., additional, McCann, A. J., additional, Meagher, K., additional, Millis, J., additional, Moriarty, P., additional, Mukherjee, R., additional, Nieto, D., additional, de Bhróithe, A. O'Faoláin, additional, Ong, R. A., additional, Otte, A. N., additional, Pandel, D., additional, Park, N., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Popkow, A., additional, Prokoph, H., additional, Quinn, J., additional, Ragan, K., additional, Rajotte, J., additional, Ratliff, G., additional, Reyes, L. C., additional, Reynolds, P. T., additional, Richards, G. T., additional, Roache, E., additional, Rousselle, J., additional, Sembroski, G. H., additional, Shahinyan, K., additional, Sheidaei, F., additional, Smith, A. W., additional, Staszak, D., additional, Telezhinsky, I., additional, Tsurusaki, K., additional, Tucci, J. V., additional, Tyler, J., additional, Varlotta, A., additional, Vassiliev, V. V., additional, Vincent, S., additional, Wakely, S. P., additional, Ward, J. E., additional, Weinstein, A., additional, Welsing, R., additional, and Wilhelm, A., additional
Published: 2014
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47. OBSERVATIONS OF THE UNIDENTIFIED GAMMA-RAY SOURCE TeV J2032+4130 BY VERITAS

Author: Aliu, E., primary, Aune, T., additional, Behera, B., additional, Beilicke, M., additional, Benbow, W., additional, Berger, K., additional, Bird, R., additional, Buckley, J. H., additional, Bugaev, V., additional, Cardenzana, J. V., additional, Cerruti, M., additional, Chen, X., additional, Ciupik, L., additional, Connolly, M. P., additional, Cui, W., additional, Duke, C., additional, Dumm, J., additional, Errando, M., additional, Falcone, A., additional, Federici, S., additional, Feng, Q., additional, Finley, J. P., additional, Fortin, P., additional, Fortson, L., additional, Furniss, A., additional, Galante, N., additional, Gillanders, G. H., additional, Griffin, S., additional, Griffiths, S. T., additional, Grube, J., additional, Gyuk, G., additional, Hanna, D., additional, Holder, J., additional, Hughes, G., additional, Humensky, T. B., additional, Kaaret, P., additional, Kargaltsev, Oleg, additional, Kertzman, M., additional, Khassen, Y., additional, Kieda, D., additional, Krawczynski, H., additional, Lang, M. J., additional, Madhavan, A. S., additional, Maier, G., additional, Majumdar, P., additional, McCann, A., additional, Moriarty, P., additional, Mukherjee, R., additional, Nieto, D., additional, O'Faoláin de Bhróithe, A., additional, Ong, R. A., additional, Otte, A. N., additional, Pandel, D., additional, Perkins, J. S., additional, Pohl, M., additional, Popkow, A., additional, Prokoph, H., additional, Quinn, J., additional, Ragan, K., additional, Rajotte, J., additional, Reyes, L. C., additional, Reynolds, P. T., additional, Richards, G. T., additional, Roache, E., additional, Sembroski, G. H., additional, Skole, C., additional, Staszak, D., additional, Telezhinsky, I., additional, Theiling, M., additional, Tucci, J. V., additional, Tyler, J., additional, Varlotta, A., additional, Vincent, S., additional, Wakely, S. P., additional, Weekes, T. C., additional, Weinstein, A., additional, Welsing, R., additional, Williams, D. A., additional, and Zitzer, B., additional
Published: 2014
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48. VERITAS Collaboration Contributions to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference

Author: Abeysekara, A. U., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Barnacka, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Biteau, J., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Christiansen, J. L., Ciupik, L., Collins-Hughes, E., Connolly, M. P., Coppi, P., Cui, W., Dwarkadas, V. V., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Alonso, M. Fernandez, Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Gyuk, G., Hütten, M., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Maria Krause, Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., Mcarthur, S., Mccann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nguyen, T., Nieto, D., Bhróithe, A. O. Faoláin, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pandel, D., Park, N., Pelassa, V., Perkins, J. S., Petrashyk, A., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rovero, A. C., Santander, M., Schlenstedt, S., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Vassiliev, V. V., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.

49. Very high energy outburst of Markarian 501 in May 2009

Author: Aliu, E., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Arlen, T., Aune, T., Barnacka, A., Behera, B., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Böttcher, M., Bouvier, A., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Cesarini, A., Chen, Xuhui, Ciupik, L., Collins-Hughes, E., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dumm, J., Eisch, J. D., Falcone, A., Federici, S., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Galante, N., Gall, D., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Hütten, M., Håkansson, N., Holder, J., Hughes, Greg, Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley-Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krawczynski, H., Krennrich, F., Lang, M. J., Madhavan, A. S., Maier, G., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., O’Faoláin De Bhróithe, A., Ong, R. A., Orr, M., Otte, A. N., Pandel, D., Park, N., Pelassa, V., Perkins, J. S., Pichel, A., Pohl, Martin, Popkow, A., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Rovero, A. C., Saxon, D. B., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Sheidaei, F., Skole, C., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Theiling, M., Todd, N. W., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Vincent, S., Wakely, S. P., Weiner, O. M., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Wilhelm, Alina, Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., Baring, M. G., Becerra Gónzalez, J., Cillis, A. N., Horan, D., and Paneque, D.
Subjects: 13. Climate action
Abstract: Astronomy and astrophysics 594, A76(2016). doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201628744, The very high energy (VHE; E> 100 GeV) blazar Markarian 501 was observed between April 17 and May 5 (MJD 54 938–54 956), 2009, as part of an extensive multi-wavelength campaign from radio to VHE. Strong VHE γ-ray activity was detected on May 1st with Whipple and VERITAS, when the flux (E> 400 GeV) increased to 10 times the pre-flare baseline flux (3.9 × 10$^{-11}$ ph cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$), reaching five times the flux of the Crab Nebula. This coincided with a decrease in the optical polarization and a rotation of the polarization angle by 15°. This VHE flare showed a fast flux variation with an increase of a factor ~4 in 25 min, and a falling time of ~50 min. We present the observations of the quiescent state previous to the flare and of the high state after the flare, focusing on the flux and spectral variability from Whipple, VERITAS, Fermi-LAT, RXTE, and Swift combined with optical and radio data., Published by EDP Sciences, Les Ulis

50. Veritas Observations of the BL LAC Object PG 1553+113

Author: Aliu, E., Archer, A., Aune, T., Barnacka, A., Behera, B., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cardenzana, J. V, Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Dumm, J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Federici, S., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Galante, N., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Håkansson, N., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Hughes, Gareth, Humensky, T. B., Johnson, C. A., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krawczynski, H., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Madhavan, A., McArthur, S., McCann, A., Meagher, K., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Nieto, D., O'Faoláin De Bhróithe, A., Ong, R. A., Orr, M., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Perkins, J. S., Pohl, Martin, Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Rajotte, J., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Wilhelm, Alina, Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: 10. No inequality
Abstract: The astrophysical journal 799(1), 7 - (2015). doi:10.1088/0004-637X/799/1/7, We present results from VERITAS observations of the BL Lac object PG 1553+113 spanning the years 2010, 2011, and 2012. The time-averaged spectrum, measured between 160 and 560 GeV, is well described by a power law with a spectral index of 4.33 $\pm$ 0.09. The time-averaged integral flux above 200 GeV measured for this period was (1.69 $\pm$ 0.06) × $10^{–11}$ photons $cm^{–2} s^{–1}$, corresponding to 6.9% of the Crab Nebula flux. We also present the combined $\gamma$-ray spectrum from the Fermi Large Area Telescope and VERITAS covering an energy range from 100 MeV to 560 GeV. The data are well fit by a power law with an exponential cutoff at 101.9 $\pm$ 3.2 GeV. The origin of the cutoff could be intrinsic to PG 1553+113 or be due to the $\gamma$-ray opacity of our universe through pair production off the extragalactic background light (EBL). Given lower limits to the redshift of $\mathit{z} >$ 0.395 based on optical/UV observations of PG 1553+113, the cutoff would be dominated by EBL absorption. Conversely, the small statistical uncertainties of the VERITAS energy spectrum have allowed us to provide a robust upper limit on the redshift of PG 1553+113 of $\mathit{z} \le$ 0.62. A strongly elevated mean flux of (2.50 $\pm$ 0.14) × $10^{–11}$ photons $cm^{–2} s^{–1}$ (10.3% of the Crab Nebula flux) was observed during 2012, with the daily flux reaching as high as (4.44 $\pm$ 0.71) $10^{-11}$ photons $cm^{-2} s^{-1}$ (18.3% of the Crab Nebula flux) on MJD 56048. The light curve measured during the 2012 observing season is marginally inconsistent with a steady flux, giving a $\mathit{χ}$2 probability for a steady flux of 0.03%., Published by Univ.11032, Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]

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