13-15 May 2013
Union South
US/Central timezone

A view of the Milagro sky with VERITAS

14 May 2013, 16:00
25m
Northwoods - 3rd Level

Northwoods - 3rd Level

High-Energy Gamma Ray Astrophysics Parallel High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astrophysics II

Speaker

Dr Ester Aliu (Barnard College)

Description

The Milagro water Cherenkov detector surveyed the Northern Galactic plane at a mean energy of 20 TeV, resulting in the detection of the Crab Nebula, along with at least 7 other sources with angular extensions from 1 to 3.5 deg. Prospects for detecting some of these sources with IceCube has been made given that this data is reasonably well-fit with a simple hadronic model. Each of these sources covers several potential counterparts and no definitive association can be made, complicating the task of determining the mechanism(s) that produce the high energy photons. VERITAS has followed some of these sources with higher angular and spectral resolution than Milagro above 500 GeV. We will present here these results and place them in a multiwavelength context

Primary author

Dr Ester Aliu (Barnard College)

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