Contents

• Proposal Policy

• Publication Policy

Proposal Policy

• We recommend that observers interested in VERITAS data establish a collaboration with a full or associate VERITAS member (either a member of the blazar working group, or any other full or associate member of the VERITAS collaboration ).
  
• The VERITAS member will be responsible for submitting the observation proposal to the VERITAS Time Allocation Comittee (TAC) which administers the VERITAS observation program. The TAC meets in August and September of each year and decides on the observation program for one year.
  
• Once an observation is approved and the data have been taken, the VERITAS member will have the responsibility to reduce the data.
  
• You can freely negotiate the responsibilities for the analysis and interpretation of the data with the VERITAS member.
  
• In case of an urgent (Target of Opportunity) observation which requires swifter response than granted by the regular TAC meetings, please contact one of the contact persons of the blazar group. We will try to get an observation approval by directly contacting the key-persons of the TAC.

Publication Policy

• Publications including VERITAS data for the first time must include the complete collaboration author list. The content of the paper has to be approved by the full collaboration.
  
• Publications including published VERITAS data should include the first author of that paper (or a subset of people involved in the multiwavelength proposal).