Speaker
Description
The Deeper, Wider, Faster (DWF) program has grown to coordinate over 100 telescopes located on every continent and in space operating at all wavelengths (radio, mm, IRm optical, UV, X-ray and gamma-ray) and includes particle detectors (and gravitational waves, when operating) to search for and study fast transients (those with millisecond-to-day durations). DWF was developed in 2014 and was the first all-wavelength, multimessenger program - even before the first gravitational waves were detected. The program is large and complex, but has 4 main components (1) coordinated all-wavelength wide-field, fast cadenced observations of the same fields at the same time, (2) real-time (seconds-to-minutes) data processing and transient identification, (3) rapid (minutes later) and conventional 8m-class optical, radio, and high-energy ToO triggers, and (4) later time field and target monitoring for fast transients associated with slower evolving events and early detections of slower evolving events. I will highlight the history, growth, and some science outcomes, along with lessons learned from a decade of DWF.
