The night sky is more dynamic than one can even imagine, from the luminous and energetic deaths of stars, to the violent mergers of  blackholes. 

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The Deeper, Wider, Faster program (DWF) chases the fastest bursts in the sky with multi-facility, multi-wavelength, simultaneous observations and rapid follow up.  DWF probes the milliseconds-to-hours time domain with fast-cadence, deep observations of wide regions of sky.  The most elusive transients that DWF aims to discover and study include counterparts to fast radio bursts and gravitational wave events.

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The DWF program is not a 'reactive' follow up program, like all programs previously, our approach is "proactive".  Target fields are observed simultaneously, and continuously with multiple telescopes, allowing us to gather critical data before, during, and after the fast event.  If a transient such as a fast radio burst is detected during DWF observations, several telescopes are already observing that part of the sky.  We process the data in real-time on the Swinburne supercomputer OzSTAR and are able to identify and confirm detections within minutes of the outburst with software and our team of researchers at Swinburne and around the world.  The fast identifications are important to trigger follow-up deep spectroscopy  and imaging minutes later using the world's largest telescopes on the ground and telescopes in space.