VERITAS observations of galactic compact objects

VERITAS consists of an array of four 12 m imaging atmospheric telescopes, designed to observe very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission between 100 GeV and 30 TeV. In this thesis, galactic compact objects, observed with the VERITAS telescopes, will be presented. Magnetars are highly magnetized neu...

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Main Author: Guenette, Roxanne
Other Authors: Kenneth J Ragan (Internal/Supervisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2010
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95147