"The VERITAS Survey of the Cygnus Region of the Galactic Plane", John E. Ward (for the VERITAS Collaboration), proceedings of the 8th INTEGRAL Workshop "The Restless Gamma-Ray Universe", Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland, September 2010.
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 between 67 < l < 82 and -1 < b < 4 . The Cygnus region was chosen for a blind search due to its high content of potential Very High-Energy (VHE, >100 GeV) gamma-ray sources (including Supernova Remnants, PulsarWind Nebulae, XRay 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.
