Speaker
Description
The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) Collaboration, founded in 2019, is currently engaged in the design and prototyping work towards the realisation of this future high-altitude gamma-ray facility, to be installed above 4.5 km in the Andes, in South America. SWGO will complement CTA and the existing ground-based particle detectors of the Northern Hemisphere (HAWC and LHAASO) with an unprecedented, very wide field and high duty cycle view of the southern sky. SWGO will be an extended array, with a high fill-factor core and and an outer array coverage reaching 1 km2, thus working over a broad energy range, from c. 100 GeV to the PeV scale. In this contribution I will summarise the status of the project and plans for the future, including the current expectations for sensitivity and science targets, as well as the status of the site search and technological developments of the detector. I will emphasise the Brazilian contribution and potential in this project. In this occasion we are presenting the request for recognition of SWGO by RENAFAE.
