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Neutron star-white dwarf binaries: a plausible pathway for long-duration gamma-ray bursts from compact object mergers? Chrimes, Gaspari et al. (2025), submitted

The infrared counterpart and proper motion of magnetar SGR0501+4516 Chrimes, Levan, Lyman et al. (2025), A&A, 696, 127 - arXiv:2504.08892 Press releases are available from ESA and NASA.

Multi-wavelength observations of the Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient AT2023fhn Chrimes, Coppejans et al. (2024), A&A, 691, 329 - arXiv:2406.13821

AT2023fhn (the Finch): a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient at a large offset from its host galaxy Chrimes et al. (2024), MNRAS, 527, L47 - arXiv:2307.01771 Press releases are available from NASA, ESA, NOIRlab and NOVA/Radboud University. Other articles/videos about the paper can be found here, here, here, here and here.

Searching for ejected supernova companions in the era of precise proper motion and radial velocity measurements Chrimes et al. (2023), MNRAS, 522, 2029 - arXiv:2304.02542

Towards an understanding of long gamma-ray burst environments through circumstellar medium population synthesis predictions Chrimes, Gompertz et al. (2022), MNRAS, 515, 2591 - arXiv:2206.13595

Where are the magnetar binary companions? Candidates from a comparison with binary population synthesis predictions Chrimes et al. (2022), MNRAS, 513, 3550 - arXiv:2204.09701

New candidates for magnetar counterparts from a deep search with the Hubble Space Telescope Chrimes et al. (2022), MNRAS, 512, 6093 - arXiv:2203.14947

The Galactic neutron star population I. An extragalactic view of the Milky Way and the implications for fast radio bursts Chrimes et al. (2021), MNRAS, 508, 1929 - arXiv:2105.04549

Binary population synthesis models for core-collapse gamma-ray burst progenitors Chrimes, Stanway & Eldridge (2020), MNRAS, 491, 3479 - arXiv:1911.08387 A press release can be found here.

The Case for a High-Redshift Origin of GRB100205A Chrimes et al. (2019), MNRAS, 488, 902 - arXiv:1907.00213

Chandra and Hubble Space Telescope observations of dark gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies Chrimes et al. (2019), MNRAS, 486, 3105 - arXiv:1904.10549

Investigating a population of infrared-bright gamma-ray burst host galaxies Chrimes et al. (2018), MNRAS, 478, 2 - arXiv:1804.08971




Contributing Author

GRB 241105A: A test case for GRB classification and rapid r-process nucleosynthesis channels Dimple et al. (2025), submitted - arXiv:2507.15940

The day-long, repeating GRB 250702BDE / EP250702a: A unique extragalactic transient Levan et al. (2025), submitted - arXiv:2507.14286

Binary neutron star merger offsets from their host galaxies II. Short-duration gamma-ray bursts Gaspari et al. (2025), A&A, 699A, 113 - arXiv:2504.04825

Euclid: Quick Data Release (Q1) - Photometric studies of known transients Duffy et al. (2025), submitted as part of the A&A Special Issue `Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1)' - arXiv:2503.15334

EP 250108a/SN 2025kg: Observations of the Most Nearby Broad-line Type Ic Supernova Following an Einstein Probe Fast X-Ray Transient Rastinejad et al. (2025), ApJL, 988, L13 - arXiv:2504.08889

The Kangaroo's First Hop: The Early Fast Cooling Phase of EP250108a/SN 2025kg Eyles-Ferris et al. (2025), ApJL, 988, L14 - arXiv:2504.08886

The Einstein Probe transient EP240414a: Linking Fast X-ray Transients, Gamma-ray Bursts and Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients van Dalen et al. (2025), ApJL, 982, 47 - arXiv:2409.19056

Constraints on optical and near-infrared variability in the localisation of the long-period radio transient GLEAM-X J1627-52 Lyman et al. (2025), MNRAS, 538, 925 - arXiv:2410.19480

Binary neutron star merger offsets from their host galaxies I. GW 170817 as a case study Gaspari et al. (2024), A&A, 692, 21 - arXiv:2410.19480

XMM-Newton-discovered Fast X-ray Transients: Host galaxies and limits on contemporaneous detections of optical counterparts Eappachen et al. (2024), MNRAS, 527, 11823 - arXiv:2312.10786

The Galactic neutron star population II. Systemic velocities and merger locations of binary neutron stars Gaspari et al. (2024), MNRAS, 527, 1101 - arXiv:2310.14773

Late time HST UV and optical observations of AT2018cow: extracting a cow from its background Inkenhaag et al. (2023), MNRAS, 525, 4042 - arXiv:2308.07381

Heavy-element production in a compact object merger observed by JWST Levan et al. (2024), Nature, 626, 723 - arXiv:2307.02098L

A long-duration gamma-ray burst of dynamical origin from the nucleus of an ancient galaxy Levan et al. (2023), NatAst, 7, 976 - arXiv:2303.12912

The first JWST spectrum of a GRB afterglow: No bright supernova in observations of the brightest GRB of all time, GRB 221009A Levan et al. (2023), ApJL, 946, L28 - arXiv:2302.07761

The brightest GRB ever detected: GRB 221009A as a highly luminous event at z = 0.151 Malesani et al. (2025, accepted) - arXiv:2302.07891

Estimating Transient Rates from Cosmological Simulations and BPASS Briel et al. (2022), MNRAS, 514, 1315 - arXiv:2111.08124

The Fast Radio Burst-emitting magnetar SGR 1935+2154 - proper motion and variability from long-term HST monitoring Lyman et al. (2022), ApJ, 926, 121 - arXiv:2112.07023

Evaluating the impact of binary parameter uncertainty on stellar population properties Stanway et al. (2020), MNRAS, 495, 4605 - arXiv:2004.11913

Binary Fraction Indicators in Resolved Stellar Populations and Supernova Type Ratios Stanway et al. (2020), MNRAS, 497, 2201 - arXiv:2007.07263

Searching for Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Merger Events with the Prototype Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO-4) Gompertz et al. (2020), MNRAS, 497, 726 - arXiv:2004.00025

A systematic aging method I: HII regions D118 and D119 in NGC 300 Stevance et al. (2020), MNRAS, 498, 1347 - arXiv:2004.02883