VERITAS Telescope 1 Relocation: Details and Improvements

Details VERITAS Telescope 1 Relocation: Details and Improvements VERITAS Telescope 1 Relocation: Details and Improvements

2009-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/0912.3841v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

2009 Fermi Symposium, eConf Proceedings C091122

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The first VERITAS telescope was installed in 2002-2003 at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory and was originally operated as a prototype instrument. Subsequently the decision was made to locate the full array at the same site, 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 has provided a 30% improvement in sensitivity corresponding to a 60% change in the time needed to detect a source.

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