Steven McArthur, for the VERITAS Collaboration
CTA 1 (G119.5+10.2) is a composite supernova remnant (SNR) with a shell-type
structure in the radio band and a center filled morphology at X-ray energies.
Fermi has detected a radio-quiet pulsar PSR J0007+7303 within the radio shell
of CTA 1 in a blind search within its first months of operation. Located within
an X-ray synchrotron pulsar wind nebula (PWN), the Fermi source is spatially
coincident with the EGRET source 3EG J0010+7309. We present the the detection
of the system in very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays by VERITAS, with a
preliminary comparison to other TeV-detected PWNe.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2591
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