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, several types of core-collapse supernovae, and anomalous transient events! I pursue observational studies of these host populations to better understand how they connect to our understanding transient progenitors.
Publications
The Environments of Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients: Evidence for a Compact Object and Wolf-Rayet Star Merger Origin
A. E. Nugent, V. A. Villar, B. D. Metzger, et al.
Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal
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.
The Astrophysical Journal, 997, 38 (2026)
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 (2025)
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 (2024)
The Host Galaxies of High Velocity Type Ia Supernovae
A. E. Nugent, A. E. Polin, P. E. Nugent
A. E. Nugent, W. Fong. Y. Dong, et al.
The Astrophysical Journal, 940, 57 (2022)
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)
1800 Sherman Avenue
Evanston, IL 60208
anyanugent2023[at]u.northwestern.edu
Contact
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Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
anya.nugent[at]cfa.harvard.edu
