Astronomy Seminar
| Date/Time: | Friday, 24 Oct 2014 at 4:10 pm |
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| Location: | 3 Physics |
| Phone: | 515-294-5440 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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The gamma-ray sky consists of photons and charged cosmic-ray particles billions to trillions of times more energetic than visible light. VERITAS, an array of four 12 meter atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes in southern Arizona, is designed to study this gamma-ray sky at energies between 100 GeV - 30 TeV. Unfortunately, current methods of analysis are unsuited for detecting sources similar in size to the instrument's 3.5 degree field of view. I will present on a technique in development at ISU that shows promise to reveal and help study the emission from such very extended sources.