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

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。在过去的十年中，该合作开创了大气切伦科夫成像技术的发展。目前，该合作项目在亚利桑那州东南部的霍普金斯山上运行着一台10米长的成像望远镜。该合作已成功探测到来自蟹状星云和活动星系核Markarian 421，Markarian 501和1ES_2344的超高能伽马射线。观测计划的目的是寻找来自各种天体的伽马射线，如超新星遗迹、双星、X射线源、黑洞和活动星系核。目前正在与史密森学会和芝加哥的阿德勒天文馆合作，制定该项目内容丰富的教育/推广部分。

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.