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   * A gamma-ray observatory based on ground-level particle detection, with close to 100% duty cycle and order steradian field of view.
-  * Located in South America at a latitude between 10 and 30 degrees south.
+  * Located in Atacama Astronomical Park, Chile.
-  * At an altitude of 4.4 km or higher.
+  * At an altitude of 4770 m.
   * Covering an energy range from 100s of GeV up to the PeV scale.
   * Based primarily on water Cherenkov detector units.
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  [[#Outreach Material|Outreach Material ]]
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+====== NEWS ======
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+===== Harm Schoorlemmer receives ERC Consolidator grant =====
+//December 4th, 2024//
+Working-group coordinator for SWGO's analysis and simulations, Harm Schoorlemmer, from Nikhef, the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics, was recently awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant (3 million euros) for his research proposal titled 'Air shower interferometry to advance astroparticle physics’. He developed  a new technique that applies interferometry on the radio emission from air showers, thereby combining two detection techniques -- radio antennas and high-altitude water Cherenkov detectors. This would greatly improve the reconstruction accuracy of air shower properties and allow for better determination of the features of cosmic particles, and has the potential to be implemented into the SWGO array.
+Congratulations, Harm!
+Read more here: https://www.nikhef.nl/en/news/nikhef-researcher-harm-schoorlemmer-receives-erc-consolidator-grant/
-===== News =====
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+===== September 2024: 11th Collaboration Meeting =====
-==== April 2024: 10th Collaboration Meeting ====
+{{::wiki:swgo-cm2024Sep-picture.png |SWGO collaboration meeting}}
-{{wiki:panaroma_congreso_astro_f1.jpg?direct&800 |The SWGO collaboration meeting}}
+After the site selection in Pampa La Bola, Chile, the collaboration has gained a whole new momentum! It will be neighbours with the southern array of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), complementary to and synergetic with its scientific aims in exploring the sky in gamma rays.
-For the R&D phase of SWGO we defined nine milestones. Today, 3rd May 2024, we ticked Milestone 6, having agreed on a design consolidation: greatly reducing the phase space for the final optimisation of the SWGO design. SWGO will be composed of an inner array with a fill-factor of >40% and excellent low energy performance, but also an outer array with lower fill factor but an area of 0.5-2.0 km^2, providing a science reach in to the PeV domain. The inner array will be based on dual-layer water Cherenkov detectors with diameter between 3.8 and 5.5 m. Multiple options are still being explored for the outer array.
+This was clearly demonstrated at the collaboration meeting that was held at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) in Heidelberg, Germany from 10th to 13th September 2024, where scientists and students fro around the world attended both, in person as well online, to discuss
+  * detector and site development,
+  * simulations and science analyses,
+  * collaborations with on-site personnel and international funding agencies, and
+  * making positive impacts in the local communities!
-This is a big step for the collaboration, based on a huge simulation and analysis effort as well as detector design development and evaluation of our benchmark science cases.
+Kudos to everyone for all their efforts! And a special shoutout to our spokespersons as well as the incredible local organising committee at the MPIK for putting together everything. There’s a lot to look forward to -- stay tuned!
-Our next Milestone is the selection of the SWGO Site – stay tuned!
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+===== SWGO SITE SELECTION =====
+//August 12th, 2024//
-(Picture is from our recent collaboration meeting in Mexico City)
+{{:wiki:swgo_atacama.png}}
+**At a meeting at the Brazilian Center for Physics Research (CBPF), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, scientists of the SWGO Project, whose goal is to observe the sources of very-high-energy gamma rays in the Universe, announced that the [[https://astronomicalpark.cl | Atacama Astronomical Park]] in Chile was selected as the site of the observatory.**
+Please find more information at the **SWGO site selection press release** [[https://www.swgo.org/SWGOWiki/doku.php?id=site_press_release | here]].
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-==== October 2023: 9th Collaboration Meeting ====
-{{wiki:swgo-cm2023Oct-picture.png?direct&800 |The SWGO collaboration meeting}}
+===== May 2024: Major Milestone Completed =====
+{{wiki:panorama_congreso_astro_f1.jpg |The SWGO collaboration meeting in Mexico City}} \\
+For the R&D phase of SWGO we defined nine milestones. Today, 3rd May 2024, we ticked Milestone 6, having agreed on a design consolidation: greatly reducing the phase space for the final optimisation of the SWGO design. SWGO will be composed of an inner array with a fill-factor of >40% and excellent low energy performance, but also an outer array with lower fill factor but an area of 0.5-2.0 square kilometres, providing a science reach in to the PeV domain. The inner array will be based on dual-layer water Cherenkov detectors with diameter between 3.8 and 5.5 metres. Multiple options are still being explored for the outer array.
+This is a big step for the collaboration, based on a huge simulation and analysis effort as well as detector design development and evaluation of our benchmark science cases.
+Our next Milestone is the selection of the SWGO Site – stay tuned!
+(The picture is from our recent collaboration meeting in Mexico City, where our discussions paved the way for this new Milestone.)
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+===== October 2023: 9th Collaboration Meeting =====
+{{wiki:swgo-cm2023Oct-picture.png |The SWGO collaboration meeting}}
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-==== April 2023: 8th Collaboration Meeting ====
+===== April 2023: 8th Collaboration Meeting =====
-{{wiki:swgo-cm2023April-picture.png?direct&800 |The SWGO collaboration meeting}}
+{{wiki:swgo-cm2023April-picture.png |The SWGO collaboration meeting}}
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-==== April 2023: CLAF/MCTI High-Level Seminar ====
+===== April 2023: CLAF/MCTI High-Level Seminar =====
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-==== Oct 2022: New partner countries ====
+===== Oct 2022: New partner countries =====
 We are delighted and happy to welcome China and Croatia to our team as two of the now fourteen partners. We look forward to joining efforts to carry out this great project and generate new and exciting outcomes, welcome!
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-==== Sep 2022: 7th Collaboration Meeting ====
+===== Sep 2022: 7th Collaboration Meeting =====
 From Sep. 19 to Sep. 23, 2022, the SWGO Collaboration met online to share and discuss the progress in several ongoing tasks for the observatory to be built. We welcome all the new Collaborators, and thank you all for such a fruitful Meeting!
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-==== May 2022: Collaboration Meeting ====
+===== May 2022: Collaboration Meeting =====
 From May 23rd to May 27th, 2022, the SWGO Collaboration met to discuss the progress in several ongoing exciting tasks. The science benchmarks, the detector options, the potential sites for the observatory to be built, and the improvement in analysis and simulations. We will be looking forward to meeting again!
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-==== In Memory of Prof. Ronald Cintra Shellard  (1948 – 2021) ====
+===== In Memory of Prof. Ronald Cintra Shellard  (1948 – 2021) =====
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-==== March 2021: New Vice-Spokespersons for SWGO ====
+===== March 2021: New Vice-Spokespersons for SWGO =====
 The SWGO Collaboration is delighted to announce that the Spokesperson team is now complete! Petra Huentemeyer, from the Michigan Technological University, US, and Ulisses Barres de Almeida, from the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Brazil, have been appointed as Vice-Spokespersons of the collaboration. They will work together with the spokesperson, Jim Hinton, MPIK, Germany, over the next 1-2 years to guide the R&D phase of SWGO.
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-==== November 2020: 3rd Collaboration Meeting ====
+===== November 2020: 3rd Collaboration Meeting =====
 The SWGO members met online for the third collaboration meeting, held on November 4-10, 2020.
 {{ wiki:swgo_collmeeting_nov2020.png?direct&800 |}}
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-==== May 2020: Remote Collaboration Meeting ====
+===== May 2020: Remote Collaboration Meeting =====
 Last week, from May 11th to May 15th, 2020, the SWGO Collaboration met virtually to discuss the advancements in the several ongoing activities. Our science benchmarks, the progress in simulations, the different detector options, and the possible sites for the observatory were the highlights of this meeting. We look forward to meeting face to face soon!
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-==== First Collaboration Meeting ====
+===== First Collaboration Meeting =====
 The SWGO Collaboration members met all together for the first time at the Padova Astronomical Observatory, Italy, on October 30th–31st 2019. During the meeting, there were wide-ranging discussions on different detector concepts, analysis techniques, simulations, and science with SWGO and connections with future observatories, sites in South America that could host the observatory, and future outreach and communication activities. The next collaboration meeting is planned to take place in Mexico City in May 2020.
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-==== Founding of a New Collaboration ====
+===== Founding of a New Collaboration =====
 On July 1st 2019, 39 research institutions from nine countries signed the agreement for the creation of a new international R&D collaboration for a future wide field-of-view gamma-ray observatory in the southern hemisphere. The aim of the collaboration is to develop, over the next three years, a detailed proposal for the implementation of such an observatory, including site selection and technology choices. The founding countries of the newly created Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) are Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, creating a worldwide community around the project. SWGO unifies different communities that were already involved in R&D in this field. The signature of the agreement comes after a successful meeting of the scientists from the different countries, held in Lisbon in May. [[:press_release_en|Press Release (English)]] {{:wiki:swgo_pressimages_sky_light_small.jpg?nolink&  |Gamma-ray sky image as seen by the (current) HAWC and (future) SWGO observatories (Credit: Richard White, MPIK)}} //Gamma-ray sky image as seen with the (current) HAWC and (future) SWGO observatories (Credit: Richard White, MPIK)//
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-==== Science Case Published! ====
+===== Science Case Published! =====
 We recently published the first version of the science case for a southern wide field-of-view gamma-ray observatory on the [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08429|arXiv]]. The idea is that this is a living document, if you would like to contribute to the next version or want to endorse the effort let us know.
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-===== Related Publications =====
+====== Related Publications ======
 Publication related to SWGO can be found under [[:swgo_rel_pub|Publications]].
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 ===== Related Experiments =====
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   * [[https://magic.mpp.mpg.de|MAGIC]]
   * [[https://www.fact-project.org|FACT]]

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