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First-Author Publications

Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop 2022

Selected Talks

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 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 Gamma-Ray Burst Kilonovae to Enrich Their Host Galaxies

A. E. Nugent, A. P. Ji, W. Fong, H. Shah, 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

Short GRB Host Galaxies. II. A Legacy Sample of Redshifts, Stellar Population Properties, and Implications for their Neutron Star Merger Origins

A. E. Nugent, W. Fong., Y. Dong, et al.

The Astrophysical Journal, 940, 57 (2022)

 

 

The Distant, Galaxy Cluster Environment of the Short GRB 161104A at z~0.8 and a Comparison to the Short GRB Host Population

A. E. Nugent, W. Fong. Y. Dong, et al.

The Astrophysical Journal, 904, 52 (2020)

 

Rise_Time 2026 (August 2026) *Invited

The Interface of AI and Astronomy 

Shifting Landscapes in Astrophysics: New Frontiers to Explore with Roman (July 2026) *Invited

Transient Host Galaxies

Transients Science at Space Telescope Journal Club (April 2026) *Invited

Transient Host Galaxies in the Big Data Era

RAPID Response: Hot-wiring the Next Generation of Time-Domain Science (March 2026)

Exploring Transient Host Galaxies in the Big Data Era

Carnegie Mellon Astronomy Seminar  (March 2026) *Invited

Decoding Transient Origins through Host Galaxies in the Era of Rubin

Boombox Science Meeting (June 2025) *Invited

Studying Host Galaxies of Rare Transients with Boombox

20 Years of Swift Discoveries (March 2025)

Where has all the r-process gone?

Transients from Space Conference (March 2025)

Host Galaxies of Spectroscopically and Photometrically Classified Transients

Rise_Time (August 2024)

Where has all the r-process gone?

ITC Luncheon Talk (September 2024) *Invited

Where has all the r-process gone?

Rise_Time (August 2024)

Where has all the r-process gone?

Hamilton College Physics Colloquium (April 2024) *Invited

The Host Galaxies of Short GRBs

UChicago Open Group Seminar (Nov 2023) *Invited

Dwarf Galaxies, Neutron Star Mergers, and Heavy Elements

GRB50 (August 2023)

Characterizing the Host Environments of Short GRBs: From the Ultra Faint to the Highest-Redshift

Transient and Variable Universe (June 2023)

The Host Galaxies of Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass Explosions

FRB Follow-Up Workshop (April 2023) *Invited

Lessons Learned from GRBs

Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (Dec 2022)

BRIGHT: A Legacy Sample of Short GRB Hosts with Implications for Neutron Star Merger Evolution and GW Follow-Up

Spoken-WERRD Transient Symposium (Nov 2022)

Short GRB Host Galaxies: Implications for Progenitor Delay Times

 

Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (Dec 2021)

Exploring the Environments of the Short Gamma-ray Burst Population and the Connection to Neutron Star Mergers

Spoken-WERRD Transient Symposium (Mar 2020)

Exploring the Environments of the Short Gamma-ray Burst Population and the Connection to Neutron Star Mergers

APS Prairie Section Fall Conference (Nov 2020)

The rare, galaxy cluster environment of the short GRB 161104A and a comparison to the short GRB host population

 

Midwest Workshop on Supernovae and Transients (Feb 2019)

Analysis of a Short GRB in an Old Galaxy Cluster 

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