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VERITAS Telescope 1 Relocation: Details and Improvements

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arxiv 0912.3841 v1 pith:6TUBBAVU submitted 2009-12-18 astro-ph.IM

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The first VERITAS telescope was installed in 2002-2003 at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory and was originally operated as a prototype instrument. Subsequently the decision was made to locate the full array at the same site, resulting in an asymmetric array layout. As anticipated, this resulted in less than optimal sensitivity due to the loss in effective area and the increase in background due to local muon initiated triggers. In the summer of 2009, the VERITAS collaboration relocated Telescope 1 to improve the overall array layout. This has provided a 30% improvement in sensitivity corresponding to a 60% change in the time needed to detect a source.

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    New VERITAS observations from 2016-2019 show seasonal TeV detections of LS I +61 303 that the authors interpret as consistent with the source's previously reported superorbital modulation.

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