A. J. Levan

Research interests

Publications

• Heavy-element production in a compact object merger observed by JWST

  Nature · 2023 · 10.1038/s41586-023-06759-1

• A kilonova following a long-duration gamma-ray burst at 350 Mpc

  Nature · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05390-w

• Identification of strontium in the merger of two neutron stars

  Nature · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1676-3

• The optical afterglow of the short gamma-ray burst associated with GW170817

  Nature Astronomy · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-018-0511-3

• The Emergence of a Lanthanide-rich Kilonova Following the Merger of Two Neutron Stars

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa90b6

• Swift and NuSTAR observations of GW170817: Detection of a blue kilonova

  Science · 2017 · 10.1126/science.aap9580

• Spectroscopic identification of r-process nucleosynthesis in a double neutron-star merger

  Nature · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24298

• GRB hosts through cosmic time

  Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425561

• THE AFTERGLOW OF GRB 130427A FROM 1 TO 1016GHz

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2014 · 10.1088/0004-637x/781/1/37

• A NEW POPULATION OF ULTRA-LONG DURATION GAMMA-RAY BURSTS

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/781/1/13

• Signatures of magnetar central engines in short GRB light curves

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts683

• A ‘kilonova’ associated with the short-duration γ-ray burst GRB 130603B

  Nature · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12505

• SWIFT J2058.4+0516: DISCOVERY OF A POSSIBLE SECOND RELATIVISTIC TIDAL DISRUPTION FLARE?

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/753/1/77

• A Possible Relativistic Jetted Outburst from a Massive Black Hole Fed by a Tidally Disrupted Star

  Science · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1207150

• A PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFT OFz∼ 9.4 FOR GRB 090429B

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/736/1/7

• An Extremely Luminous Panchromatic Outburst from the Nucleus of a Distant Galaxy

  Science · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1207143

• THE AFTERGLOWS OFSWIFT-ERA GAMMA-RAY BURSTS. I. COMPARING PRE-SWIFTANDSWIFT-ERA LONG/SOFT (TYPE II) GRB OPTICAL AFTERGLOWS

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/720/2/1513

• The unusual X-ray emission of the short Swift GRB 090515: evidence for the formation of a magnetar?

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17354.x

• Discovery of the nearby long, soft GRB 100316D with an associated supernova

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17879.x

• A γ-ray burst at a redshift of z ≈ 8.2

  Nature · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08459

• LOW-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY OF GAMMA-RAY BURST OPTICAL AFTERGLOWS: BIASES IN THE SWIFT SAMPLE AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ABSORBERS

  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/185/2/526

• Broadband observations of the naked-eye γ-ray burst GRB 080319B

  Nature · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07270

• Long γ-ray bursts and core-collapse supernovae have different environments

  Nature · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04787

• A mean redshift of 2.8 forSwiftgamma-ray bursts

  Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2006 · 10.1051/0004-6361:20054287

• An optical supernova associated with the X-ray flash XRF 060218

  Nature · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05082

• A short γ-ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z = 0.225

  Nature · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04142

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