VTSCat: The VERITAS Catalog of Gamma-Ray Observations

Atreya Acharyya ,E Sabol ,D Ribeiro ,Tarek Hassan ,Philip Kaaret ,J T Bartkoske ,Pedro Ivo Batista ,J Ryan ,J Quinn ,N Park ,R R Prado ,M Errando ,N Korzoun ,O Hervet ,M J Lang ,B Stevenson ,A Pichel ,S O’brien ,D Nieto ,M Lundy ,C Giuri ,P Bangale ,R Shang ,W Hanlon ,Antara Basu-Zych ,Alisha Chromey ,D Hanna ,J Hoang ,G Maier ,J Holder ,G Hughes ,J H Buckley ,D Tak ,E Roache ,V V Vassiliev ,P Moriarty ,W Benbow ,A Weinstein ,S Schlenstedt,E Pueschel ,D Pandel ,S Kumar ,M Pohl ,D Kieda ,T B Humensky ,C Adams ,P T Reynolds ,G H Sembroski ,A Gent ,A Brill ,A Furniss ,A Falcone ,C B Rulten ,M Santander ,M Kertzman ,R Mukherjee ,Sameer Patel ,Robert Brose ,S P Wakely ,M Capasso ,A N Otte ,K Pfrang ,K Ragan ,A C Rovero ,L Fortson ,M K Daniel ,W Jin ,M Splettstoesser ,L Angelini ,R A Ong ,I Sadeh ,O Gueta ,J P Finley ,C E Mcgrath ,D A Williams ,K A Farrell ,Q Feng ,T J Williamson ,C L Mooney ,F Krennrich ,J L Christiansen ,G Gallagher ,M Nievas Rosillo ,G Richards ,A Archer ,Gregory Foote ,T K Kleiner ,Matthew J Millard ,A Smale

doi:10.3847/2515-5172/acb147

Abstract

The ground-based gamma-ray observatory Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS, https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/) is sensitive to photons of astrophysical origin with energies in the range between ≈85 GeV and ≈30 TeV. The instrument consists of four 12 m diameter imaging Cherenkov telescopes operating at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in southern Arizona. VERITAS started four-telescope operations in 2007 and collects about 1100 hr of good-weather data per year. The VERITAS collaboration has published over 100 journal articles since 2008 reporting on gamma-ray observations of a large variety of objects: Galactic sources like supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, and binary systems; extragalactic sources like star-forming galaxies, dwarf-spheroidal galaxies, and highly variable active galactic nuclei. This note presents VTSCat: the catalog of high-level data products from all VERITAS publications.

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