Published January 3, 2022
| Version pre-release-v0.5.0
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VTSCat: The VERITAS Catalog of Gamma-Ray Observations
Authors/Creators
- Benbow, W.1
- Brill, A.2
- Capasso, M.3
- Christiansen, J.L.4
- Errando, M.5
- Falcone, A.6
- Farrell, K.A.7
- Feng, Q.3
- Foote, G.M.8
- Fortson, L.9
- Furniss, A.10
- Gent, A.11
- Giuri, C.12
- Hassan, T.12
- Hervet, O.13
- Holder, J.8
- Humensky, T.B.2
- Jin, W.14
- Kaaret, P.15
- Kieda, D.16
- Lang, M.J.17
- Lundy, M.18
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Maier, G.12
- McGrath, C.E.7
- Mukherjee, R.3
- Nievas-Rosillo, M.12
- O'Brien, S.18
- Ong, R.A.19
- Patel, S.15
- Pohl, M.20
- Pueschel, E.12
- Quinn, J.7
- Ragan, K.18
- Ribeiro, D.2
- Richards, G.T.8
- Roache, E.1
- Ryan, J.L.19
- Williams, D.A.13
- 1. Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- 2. Physics Department, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
- 3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Barnard College, Columbia University, NY 10027, USA
- 4. Physics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 94307, USA
- 5. Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
- 6. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 525 Davey Lab, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- 7. School of Physics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
- 8. Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
- 9. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
- 10. Department of Physics, California State University - East Bay, Hayward, CA 94542, USA
- 11. School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 837 State Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30332-0430
- 12. DESY, Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
- 13. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics and Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
- 14. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA
- 15. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Van Allen Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
- 16. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
- 17. School of Physics, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland
- 18. Physics Department, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada
- 19. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- 20. Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany and DESY, Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
Description
VTSCat is the catalog of high-level data products from all publications of the VERITAS collaboration.
The VTSCat data collection contains:
- high-level data like spectral flux points, light curves, spectral fits in human- and machine-readable yaml and ecsv file format
- tabled data like upper limits tables from dark matter searches or results on the extragalactic background in ecsv file format
- sky maps (wherever available) in FITS file format
The data collection contains results from gamma-ray measurements only. This is a pre-release for testing and early publications.
A forthcoming research note will provide more details on the catalog. Please check the README file and all documentation linked to the README.
VTSCat supplements the HEASARC catalogue of VERITAS results (to be published). VTSCat is inspired and derived from gamma-cat.
Access:
References:
- VERITAS: https://veritas.sao.arizona.edu/
- VER Dictionary of Nomenclature: https://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?/17350620
Files
VERITAS-VTSCat-0.5.0.zip
Additional details
Related works
- Is cited by
- Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06424 (URL)
References
- https://github.com/VERITAS-Observatory/VERITAS-VTSCat/tree/pre-release-v01a
- Patel, S., Maier, G, Kaaret, P. (the VERITAS Collaboration), VTSCat - The VERITAS Catalog of Gamma Ray Observations, arXiv:2108.06424