VERITAS Telescope 1 Relocation: Details and Improvements

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Feb 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010head...11.3904p&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #39.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.719

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The first VERITAS telescope was installed in 2002-2003 and originally operated as a prototype instrument. The decision to locate the full array at the same site was made subsequently, resulting in an asymmetric array layout. As anticipated, this resulted in less than optimal sensitivity due to the loss in effective area and the increase in background due to local muon initiated triggers. In the summer of 2009, the VERITAS collaboration relocated Telescope 1 to improve the overall array layout. This is expected to provide a 15% improvement in sensitivity, corresponding to a 25% reduction in the time required to detect a source. This contribution will detail the specifics of the relocation and the sensitivity improvements.

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