Deeper, Wider, Faster (DWF)
The Deeper, Wider, Faster programme is a novel survey which searches for fast transients, on timescales of minutes to days, in real-time. This search is conducted by coordinating multiple facilities to observe the same fields in the sky simultaneously in multiwavelength and multimessenger regimes (including radio, mm/sub-mm, optical, UV, X-ray, gamma-ray, and ultra-high energy particles). These data enables deep, wide-field, fast cadence observations of rare and exotic transient bursts before they fade away. Rapid real-time data processing is performed during observational runs, with data transferred from the telescope to by-eye transient candidate vetting occurring in ~10 minutes. Additional facilities are available for quick response triggering, to acquire further deep imaging and spectroscopic data. To date, DWF has worked with over 100 facilities all over the world, and in space.
Kilonova and Transients Programme (KNTraP)
The KiloNova and Transients Programme is an optical search specifically designed for the discovery of kilonovae, without the reliance on gravitational wave or gamma-ray burst triggers. This search is non-disruptive, multi-filter, nightly cadence, and probes a large cosmological volume per night. Advantages of an untriggered search includes not being not limited by gravitational wave detector horizon, localisation areas, or when the gravitational wave detectors are online. We perform rapid data processing, and vet candidates next day to be able to trigger follow-up observations before the kilonova/ fast transient fades away. A single KNTraP run is designed to take ~10 observational nights, it is a highly efficient search, and we estimate 3 KNTraP runs are required on average, to discover one kilonova.