J. W. T. Hessels

Research interests

Publications

• A repeating fast radio burst source localized to a nearby spiral galaxy

  Nature · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1866-z

• Periodic activity from a fast radio burst source

  Nature · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2398-2

• Fast radio bursts

  The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00159-019-0116-6

• An extreme magneto-ionic environment associated with the fast radio burst source FRB 121102

  Nature · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25149

• Highest Frequency Detection of FRB 121102 at 4–8 GHz Using the Breakthrough Listen Digital Backend at the Green Bank Telescope

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad005

• The Host Galaxy and Redshift of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/834/2/l7

• A direct localization of a fast radio burst and its host

  Nature · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20797

• The Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102 as Seen on Milliarcsecond Angular Scales

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/834/2/l8

• High-precision timing of 42 millisecond pulsars with the European Pulsar Timing Array

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw483

• The International Pulsar Timing Array: First data release

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw347

• THE REPEATING FAST RADIO BURST FRB 121102: MULTI-WAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS AND ADDITIONAL BURSTS

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/177

• A repeating fast radio burst

  Nature · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17168

• European Pulsar Timing Array limits on an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1538

• A millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system

  Nature · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12917

• FAST RADIO BURST DISCOVERED IN THE ARECIBO PULSAR ALFA SURVEY

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/790/2/101

• Swings between rotation and accretion power in a binary millisecond pulsar

  Nature · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12470

• THE SECOND FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE CATALOG OF GAMMA-RAY PULSARS

  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2013 · 10.1088/0067-0049/208/2/17

• A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary

  Science · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1233232

• LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray

  Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220873

• On the nature and evolution of the unique binary pulsar J1903+0327

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.18109.x

• The International Pulsar Timing Array project: using pulsars as a gravitational wave detector

  Classical and Quantum Gravity · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/27/8/084013

• A two-solar-mass neutron star measured using Shapiro delay

  Nature · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09466

• A Radio Pulsar/X-ray Binary Link

  Science · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1172740

• A Radio Pulsar Spinning at 716 Hz

  Science · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1123430

• Twenty-One Millisecond Pulsars in Terzan 5 Using the Green Bank Telescope

  Science · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1108632

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