Research Interests
My research focuses on studying the host galaxy environments of various astrophysical transients - phenomena that arise from colossal stellar deaths and collisions. Host galaxy properties (like how massive, metal-rich, or star-forming they are) give us insight into how how transients depend on different environmental properties - which is key in understanding transient progenitor formation channels and timescales. My research has explored a variety of transient hosts - including those of short gamma-ray bursts, Type Ia supernovae, and several types of core-collapse supernovae. I pursue observational studies of these host populations to better understand how they connect to our understanding transient progenitors.
Publications
Characterizing Supernovae Host Galaxies with FrankenBlast: A Scalable Tool for Transient Host Galaxy Association, Photometry, and Stellar Population Modeling
A. E. Nugent, V. A. Villar, A. Gagliano, et al.
Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal
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Where has all the r-process gone? Timescales for GRB-Kilonovae to Enrich their Host Galaxies
A. E. Nugent, A. P. Ji, W. Fong, H. Shah., and F. van de Voort
The Astrophysical Journal, 982, 2
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A Population of Short-duration Gamma-ray Bursts with Dwarf Host Galaxies
A. E. Nugent, W. Fong, C. Castrejon et al.
The Astrophysical Journal, 962, 5​
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The Host Galaxies of High Velocity Type Ia Supernovae
A. E. Nugent, A. E. Polin, P. E. Nugent
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A. E. Nugent, W. Fong. Y. Dong, et al.
The Astrophysical Journal, 940, 57 (2022)
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A. E. Nugent, W. Fong. Y. Dong, et al.
The Astrophysical Journal, 904, 52 (2020)
Contact
Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Exploration in Astronomy (CIERA)
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Evanston, IL 60208
anyanugent2023[at]u.northwestern.edu
Contact
Information
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
anya.nugent[at]cfa.harvard.edu
