Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session J08: Advances in Gamma-ray Observatories
1:30 PM–2:54 PM,
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Governor's Square 10
Sponsoring
Unit:
DAP
Chair: Daniel Grin, Haverford College
Abstract: J08.00002 : Augmentation of VERITAS Telescopes for Stellar Intensity Interferometry*
1:42 PM–1:54 PM
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Presenter:
David B Kieda
(University of Utah)
Authors:
David B Kieda
(University of Utah)
Nolan K Matthews
(University of Utah)
Andrew E Flinders
(Snow College - Richfield)
Rylee A Cardon
(University of Utah)
Collaboration:
The VERITAS Collaboration
The VERITAS gamma-ray Observatory, consisting of four 12-m diameter Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes, is being augmented with high-speed (250 MS/s) streaming and continuous photon counting capabilities to create a modern implementation of a Hanbury-Brown and Twiss optical interferometer. The VERITAS-Stellar Intensity Interferometer (SII) samples the Fourier image plane at 420 nm with greater than 100 m baselines, potentially enabling sub-milliarcsecond resolution imaging of nearby stars at visible wavelengths. This talk describes the instrumentation of VERITAS-SII, its potential imaging capabilities, and its commissioning and observation plan for 2018-2019.
*This research is supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution, and by NSERC in Canada.
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