Abstract
VERITAS is an array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, located in southern Arizona, that operates in the 100 GeV to 50 TeV energy range. With VERITAS we have conducted a survey of the Cygnus region of the Galactic plane in a region defined by 67◦ 100 GeV) gamma-ray sources (including supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, X-Ray binaries and stellar OB associations) as well as several previously discovered VHE sources. There are also several high-energy gamma-ray emitters in this region as detected by the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. The survey has accumulated more than 140 hours of observations and reaches an estimated point-source VHE sensitivity of ∼4% of the Crab Nebula flux above an energy threshold of 200 GeV. We present details of the survey, analysis, initial results and follow-up observations.
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