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

VERITAS合作研究工作的主要目标是找到超高能量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米的成像望远镜。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马卡里安421、马卡里安501和1ES_2344的超高能量伽马射线。该观测项目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x射线源、黑洞和活动星系核。与史密森学会和芝加哥阿德勒天文馆合作，该项目正在开发丰富的教育/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.