Veritas Collaboration
| Professors: Cui, Finley, Lister VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is a ground-based gamma-ray instrument operating at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO) in southern Arizona, USA. It is an array of four 12m optical reflectors for gamma-ray astronomy in the GeV - TeV energy range. These imaging Cherenkov telescopes are deployed such that they have the highest sensitivity in the VHE energy band (50 GeV - 50 TeV), with maximum sensitivity from 100 GeV to 10 TeV. This VHE observatory effectively complements the NASA Fermi mission. VERITAS is based on the Whipple Telescope. Its dishes have 39 ft apertures with 350 mirrors on each. Each telescope also boasts a 499 pixel camera with 3.5 degree field of view, which can detect energy levels ranging from 50 GeV to 50 TeV. VERITAS collaborators and in constant research in fields and subjects: black holes in active galaxies, pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernova remnants, globular clusters, and galaxies. VERITAS institutions include Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Purdue University, Iowa State University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Chicago, University of Utah, University of California - Los Angeles, McGill University, University College Dublin, and University of Leeds. |
 Telescope 2 at sunset |