Speaker
Description
SWGO is the international proposal to build a wide-field gamma-ray observatory to explore the Southern Hemisphere sky in the energy range from a few hundred GeV to the PeV. Its objective is to open a new window of astronomical observation, in a domain where observational coverage is currently limited to the northern hemisphere, through the HAWC and LHAASO observatories. SWGO will be installed in the Atacama Astronomical Park, in the Chilean Andes, at an altitude of 4,770 m above sea level, and will be based on an array of Cherenkov water detectors deployed over an area of 1 km2. In this presentation I will give an overview of the SWGO proposal and future plans for the instrument, as well as its financing and construction prospects, and scientific objectives. Some emphasis will be given to aspects related to the Latin American cooperation and participation in the Observatory.
