16-18 December 2021
Cusco. Peru
America/Lima timezone
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The Southern Wide Field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO)

17 Dec 2021, 09:00
30m
Cusco. Peru

Cusco. Peru

Paraninfo Universitario de la UNSAAC, frente a la Plaza de Armas del Cusco.
key notes Astronomy and Cosmology keynotes

Speaker

Ulisses Barres de Almeida (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF))

Description

The Southern Wide Field Gamma Ray Observatory (SWGO) is an international collaboration established in 2019 to plan and design a new wide field-of-view gamma-ray observatory in South America. The SWGO will be a complementary instrument to the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), and to large extensive air shower arrays such as HAWC (Mexico) and LHAASO (China). Once operational, it will be the first observatory of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, working in the range from 0.1 TeV to PeV to scan the entire southern sky, including the Galactic Plane and Center, in search of PeVatron sources. With a continuous observational duty-cycle, SWGO will also monitor the sky for extreme transients such as Gamma-ray Bursts and other astrophysical objects associated with multi-messenger events such as neutrinos and gravitational waves. In this contribution I will present in detail the proposal and plans currently under development for this future observatory, to be installed at an altitude of about 4.5 km in the Andes, and which has strong Latin-American involvement.

Primary author

Ulisses Barres de Almeida (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF))

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