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The entirety of the dynamic infrared sky has only just begun to be explored. The field of multi-messenger time-domain astronomy has grown significantly over the past years with astronomical transient and variable events such as supernovae and gravitational waves. Whilst there are a significant number of all-sky optical surveys that are observing these events, there are a substantially less number in the near-infrared even though it is known that extinction due to dust and dust formation events means that a proportion of these events cannot be seen in the optical regime. Here, two wide-field fully robotic near-infrared surveys are discussed, Palomar Gattini-IR and the Dynamic REd All-sky Monitoring Survey (DREAMS). Palomar Gattini-IR is a 0.3m telescope located at Palomar Observatory in California, United States of America and DREAMS is a 0.5m telescope that will be located at Siding Spring Observatory. |
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