Highlight Talk: Recent Results from VERITAS

Understand

VERITAS is a state-of-the-art ground-based gamma-ray observatory that operates in the very high-energy (VHE) region of 100 GeV to 50 TeV.

• The observatory consists of an array of four 12m-diameter imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes located in southern Arizona, USA.
• The four-telescope array has been fully operational since September 2007, and over the last two years, VERITAS has been operating with high efficiency and with excellent performance.
• This talk summarizes the recent results from VERITAS, including the discovery of eight new VHE gamma-ray sources.