"Gamma-ray Observations of Blazars with VERITAS and Fermi", Anna Cannon (for the VERITAS Collaboration), proceedings of the 8th INTEGRAL Workshop "The Restless Gamma-Ray Universe", Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland, September 2010.
Abstract:
VERITAS (the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is an array of four 12m Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT) telescopes, located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Southern Arizona. The array has been fully operational since
September 2007 and the study of blazars is one of the VERITAS collaboration’s key science projects. This paper provides a brief description of both the VERITAS and Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT) experiments, an overview of VERITAS’ blazar observations to date, in
conjunction with contemporaneous data from Fermi LAT and other multiwavelength observations where available. Accompanying this is a brief summary of the First Large Area Telescope AGN Catalog and a discussion of recent joint VERITAS-Fermi LAT papers.
