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The VERITAS Program on Indirect Dark Matter Searches

D. Nieto
for the VERITAS Collaboration

Abstract:

The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System is a ground-based gamma-ray telescope sensitive to photons with energies from 85 GeV to greater than 30 TeV. VERITAS is potentially sensitive to dark matter (DM) signatures in the gamma-ray sky originated by the self-annihilation of weakly interacting massive particles with masses larger than the instrument's energy threshold. We report on the current status of the VERITAS DM program, an extensive set of observations of well motivated targets for indirect DM searches: dwarf spheroidal galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, the Galactic Center and Halo, galaxy clusters, and galactic DM subhalo candidates among the unassociated Fermi-LAT sources.