TY - JOUR
T1 - Site environment characterization for Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory
AU - Jílek, Vlastimil
AU - Bakalová, Alena
AU - Chytka, Ladislav
AU - Mandát, Dušan
AU - Novotný, Vladimír
AU - Staník, Daniel
AU - Vícha, Jakub
AU - Moraes, Arthur
AU - Santander, Marcos
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful for the financial support of MEYS of the Czech Republic - grant LTT20002.
Publisher Copyright:
© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) is a proposed gamma-ray observatory based on the ground-level particle detection technique, with close to 100% duty cycle and an order of steradian field of view. SWGO will be located in South America at a latitude between 10 and 30 degrees South and an altitude of 4.4 km or higher, covering an energy range from hundreds of GeV to PeV. The SWGO Site Working Group is gathering, among other information, relevant environmental data to characterize the proposed sites using the AEROSITE instrument. Also atmospheric transparency is monitored to allow for potential enhancement of SWGO with a Cherenkov telescope. This contribution describes our activities in the study of the atmospheric conditions of selected candidate sites using instruments located onsite or installed at nearby stations.
AB - The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) is a proposed gamma-ray observatory based on the ground-level particle detection technique, with close to 100% duty cycle and an order of steradian field of view. SWGO will be located in South America at a latitude between 10 and 30 degrees South and an altitude of 4.4 km or higher, covering an energy range from hundreds of GeV to PeV. The SWGO Site Working Group is gathering, among other information, relevant environmental data to characterize the proposed sites using the AEROSITE instrument. Also atmospheric transparency is monitored to allow for potential enhancement of SWGO with a Cherenkov telescope. This contribution describes our activities in the study of the atmospheric conditions of selected candidate sites using instruments located onsite or installed at nearby stations.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/2398/1/012014
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/2398/1/012014
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85145192641
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 2398
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - 1
M1 - 012014
T2 - Atmospheric Monitoring for High Energy Astroparticle Detectors 2022, AtmoHEAD 2022
Y2 - 13 July 2022 through 15 July 2022
ER -