Speaker
Ralph Bird
(UCD Dublin)
Description
The Crab Nebula has long been the standard reference point source for very-high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray observatories such as VERITAS. It has enabled testing and improvement of analysis methods, validation of techniques, and has served as a calibration source. No comparable extended source is known with a high, constant flux and well understood morphology. In order to artificially generate such a source, VERITAS has performed raster scans across the Crab Nebula. By displacing the source within the field-of-view in a known pattern, it is possible to generate an extended calibration source for verification of extended source analysis techniques. The method and results of this novel technique are presented.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 884 |
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| Collaboration | VERITAS |
Primary author
Ralph Bird
(UCD Dublin)
