W. Cui1,8, M. K. Daniel2, Q. Feng9, J. P. Finley1, L. Fortson10, A. Furniss11, G. Gillanders7, M. Hütten5, D. Hanna9, O. Hervet12, J. Holder13, G. Hughes2, T. B. Humensky14, C. A. Johnson12, P. Kaaret15, P. Kar16, N. Kelley-Hoskins5, M. Kertzman17, D. Kieda16, M. Krause5, F. Krennrich18, S. Kumar13, M. J. Lang7, T. T. Y. Lin9, G. Maier5, S. McArthur1, P. Moriarty7, R. Mukherjee19, S. O’Brien20, R. A. Ong21, A. N. Otte22, A. Petrashyk14, M. Pohl4,5, E. Pueschel5, J. Quinn20, K. Ragan9, P. T. Reynolds23, G. T. Richards22, E. Roache2, C. Rulten10, I. Sadeh5, M. Santander24, G. H. Sembroski1, D. Staszak25,*, I. Sushch5, S. P. Wakely25, R. M. Wells18, P. Wilcox15, A. Wilhelm4,5, D. A. Williams12, T. J. Williamson13, and B. Zitzer9,† (The VERITAS Collaboration)
- 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
- 2Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Amado, Arizona 85645, USA
- 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
- 4Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
- 5DESY, Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
- 6Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
- 7School of Physics, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland
- 8Department of Physics and Center for Astrophysics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- 9Physics Department, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada
- 10School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
- 11Department of Physics, California State University—East Bay, Hayward, California 94542, USA
- 12Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics and Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
- 13Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
- 14Physics Department, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
- 15Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Van Allen Hall, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
- 16Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
- 17Department of Physics and Astronomy, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana 46135-0037, USA
- 18Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
- 19Department of Physics and Astronomy, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York City, New York 10027, USA
- 20School of Physics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
- 21Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
- 22School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 837 State Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430, USA
- 23Department of Physical Sciences, Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland
- 24Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
- 25Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
- *d.staszak@gmail.com
- †bzitzer@physics.mcgill.ca