Discoveries From the First 2 years of VERITAS Observations
| Date/Time: | Monday, 28 Sep 2009 from 4:10 pm to 5:10 pm |
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| Location: | Physics, Room 3 |
| Phone: | 515-294-9901 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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Twenty years after the discovery of the first TeV Gamma Ray source in the sky, namely the detection of the Crab Nebula in 1989, Very High Energy (VHE-) astronomy has become a reality and provides an opportunity to probe the processes that generate relativistic particles in
the Universe.
The key science objectives of VHE-astronomy include astrophysics and particle physics; the understanding of the origin of cosmic rays, the search for supersymmetric dark matter self-annihilation, the
connection between black holes and relativistic jets and constraints to the cosmological diffuse infrared background.
I will provide a summary of the results from the first two years of observations
with the VERITAS 4-telescope array. Finally, I will discuss the motivations and
the concept of next generation large arrays such as AGIS and CTA.