Development and Acquisition of Electronic Instrumentation for VERITAS Consortium Array of High Energy Gamma-Ray Telescopes

为 VERITAS 联盟高能伽马射线望远镜阵列开发和采购电子仪器

• 批准号: 0079704
• 负责人: David Kieda
• 金额: $ 36.42万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-01 至 2005-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0079704&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Acquisition; Electronic; Instrumentation; VERITAS

The primary objective of the VERITAS collaboration's research effort is to find celestial point sources of ultra high energy gamma rays. Over the past decade the collaboration has pioneered the development of the Atmospheric Cherenkov Imaging Technique. Currently the collaboration operates a 10m imaging telescope situated on Mount Hopkins in South East Arizona. The collaboration has successfully detected ultra high energy gamma rays from the Crab Nebula and the active galactic nuclei Markarian 421, Markarian 501 and 1ES_2344. The observational program is aimed at looking for gamma rays from a variety of celestial objects such as supernova remnants, pulsars, binary x-ray sources, black holes and active galactic nuclei. A rich education/outreach component of this project is under development in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution and the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.

VERITAS合作研究的主要目标是寻找超高能伽马射线的天体点源。在过去的十年里，这一合作开创了大气切伦科夫成像技术的发展。目前，该合作公司在亚利桑那州东南部的霍普金斯山上运行着一台10米成像望远镜。这次合作已经成功地探测到了来自蟹状星云和活动星系核Markarian421、Markarian501和1ES_2344的超高能伽马射线。该观测计划旨在寻找来自各种天体的伽马射线，如超新星遗迹、脉冲星、双星X射线源、黑洞和活动星系核。该项目的丰富教育/宣传部分正在与史密森学会和芝加哥的阿德勒天文馆一起开发。