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A Deep Search with the Hubble Space Telescope for Late‐Time Supernova Signatures in the Hosts of XRF 011030 and XRF 020427

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A LOFAR census of millisecond pulsars

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A chirp, a roar and a whisper.

scientific article published in February 2018

A gamma-ray burst at a redshift of z approximately 8.2.

scientific article

A large light-mass component of cosmic rays at 10(17)-10(17.5) electronvolts from radio observations

scientific article published in March 2016

A multi-colour study of the dark GRB 000210 host galaxy and its environment

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A new population of ultra-long duration gamma-ray bursts

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A photometric redshift of z = 6.39 +/- 0.12 for GRB 050904.

scientific article

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

scientific article

A tale of two GRB-SNe at a common redshift of z=0.54

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A very brief description of LOFAR – the Low Frequency Array

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A very energetic supernova associated with the gamma-ray burst of 29 March 2003.

scientific article

An extremely luminous panchromatic outburst from the nucleus of a distant galaxy.

scientific article

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

scientific article published in Nature

An origin for short γ-ray bursts unassociated with current star formation

scientific article published in Nature

An unusual supernova in the error box of the γ-ray burst of 25 April 1998

scientific article published in Nature

Author Correction: The unpolarized macronova associated with the gravitational wave event GW 170817

scholarly article published in Nature Astronomy

Broadband observations of the naked-eye gamma-ray burst GRB 080319B.

scientific article

Calibrating high-precision Faraday rotation measurements for LOFAR and the next generation of low-frequency radio telescopes

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Calibrating high-precision Faraday rotation measurements for LOFAR and the next generation of low-frequency radio telescopes (Corrigendum)

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Calibrating the absolute amplitude scale for air showers measured at LOFAR

Circular polarization in the optical afterglow of GRB 121024A.

scientific article published on 30 April 2014

Constraints on an Optical Afterglow and on Supernova Light Following the Short Burst GRB 050813

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Corrigendum: A large light-mass component of cosmic rays at 1017-1017.5 electronvolts from radio observations.

scientific article

Detailed optical and near-infrared polarimetry, spectroscopy and broad-band photometry of the afterglow of GRB 091018: polarization evolution

scientific article

Detecting cosmic rays with the LOFAR radio telescope

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Detection of Polarization in the Afterglow of GRB 990510 with the ESO Very Large Telescope

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Discovery of an Afterglow Extension of the Prompt Phase of Two Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed bySwift

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Discovery of carbon radio recombination lines in absorption towards Cygnus A

scholarly article

Discovery of the near-IR afterglow and of the host of GRB 030528

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

EDGE: Explorer of diffuse emission and gamma-ray burst explosions

EDGE: explorer of diffuse emission and gamma-ray burst explosions

Early radio and X-ray observations of the youngest nearby type Ia supernova PTF 11kly (SN 2011fe)

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Evolution of the polarization of the optical afterglow of the gamma-ray burst GRB030329.

scientific article published in November 2003

GRB 011121: a collimated outflow into wind-blown surroundings

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

GRB 020410: a gamma-ray burst afterglow discovered by its supernova light

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

GRB 020813: Polarization in the case of a smooth optical decay

scientific article

GRB 021004: Tomography of a gamma-ray burst progenitor and its host galaxy

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

GRB 030227: The first multiwavelength afterglow of an INTEGRAL GRB

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

GRB 030329: 3 years of radio afterglow monitoring

scientific article published in May 2007

GRB 091127/SN 2009nz and the VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy of its host galaxy: probing the faint end of the mass-metallicity relation

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

GRB 100219A with X-shooter – abundances in a galaxy at z =4.7

scientific article

GRB 990712: First Indication of Polarization Variability in a Gamma‐Ray Burst Afterglow

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

GRB 090313: X-shooter's first shot at a gamma-ray burst

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Gamma-ray burst afterglows from transrelativistic blast wave simulations

scholarly article

Gamma-ray burst science in the era of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

High Column Densities and Low Extinctions of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Evidence for Hypernovae and Dust Destruction

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Infrared and Optical Observations of GRB 030115 and its Extremely Red Host Galaxy: Implications for Dark Bursts

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Initial LOFAR observations of epoch of reionization windows

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Introduction: recent developments in the study of gamma-ray bursts

scientific article published on May 2007

LOFAR MSSS: detection of a low-frequency radio transient in 400 h of monitoring of the North Celestial Pole

scientific article

LOFAR detections of low-frequency radio recombination lines towards Cassiopeia A

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

LOFAR discovery of a quiet emission mode in PSR B0823+26

scientific article

LOFAR early-time search for coherent radio emission from GRB 180706A

scholarly article

LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

LOFT: the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing

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Late-epoch optical and near-infrared observations of the GRB 000911 afterglow and its host galaxy

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Localization and Broadband Follow-up of the Gravitational-wave Transient GW150914

journal article from 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters' published in 2016

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

scientific article

Low-radio-frequency eclipses of the redback pulsar J2215+5135 observed in the image plane with LOFAR.

scientific article

Low-resolution VLT spectroscopy of GRBs 991216, 011211 and 021211

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Molecular hydrogen in the damped Lyman αsystem towards GRB 120815A atz= 2.36

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Needle-like structures discovered on positively charged lightning branches

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

New methods to constrain the radio transient rate: results from a survey of four fields with LOFAR.

scientific article

No supernovae associated with two long-duration gamma-ray bursts

scientific article

ORIGIN: metal creation and evolution from the cosmic dawn

Observing pulsars and fast transients with LOFAR

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

On the Afterglow of the X‐Ray Flash of 2003 July 23: Photometric Evidence for an Off‐Axis Gamma‐Ray Burst with an Associated Supernova?

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

On the jet structure and magnetic field configuration of GRB 020813

scientific article

On the possible association of SN 1998bw and GRB 980425

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Optical and near-infrared observations of the GRB020405 afterglow

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Optical follow-up of GRB970508

Physics of the GRB 030328 afterglow and its environment

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Probing a Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor at a Redshift ofz= 2: A Comprehensive Observing Campaign of the Afterglow of GRB 030226

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Probing cosmic chemical evolution with gamma-ray bursts: GRB 060206 at z = 4.048

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Pulsar polarisation below 200 MHz: Average profiles and propagation effects

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Pulsars and Fast Transients with LOFAR

Real-time calibration of the AARTFAAC array for transient detection

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Searching for low radio-frequency gravitational wave counterparts in wide-field LOFAR data

scientific article published in 2021

Spectrophotometric analysis of gamma-ray burst afterglow extinction curves with X-Shooter

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Spectroscopic evidence for SN 2010ma associated with GRB 101219B

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Spectroscopy of the short-hard GRB 130603B

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Strategies for prompt searches for GRB afterglows: The discovery of the GRB 001011 optical/near-infrared counterpart using colour-colour selection

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Supplement: "Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 826, L13)

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

Synchronous x-ray and radio mode switches: a rapid global transformation of the pulsar magnetosphere.

scientific article

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

scholarly article

The Environment of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

The LOFAR Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS). I. Survey description and first results

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The LOFAR Transients Pipeline

June 2015 article in Astronomy and Computing

The LOFAR radio environment

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The LOFT mission concept: a status update

article

The Large Observatory for x-ray timing

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The Properties of GRB 120923A at a Spectroscopic Redshift of z ≈ 7.8

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Rapid Decay of the Optical Emission from GRB 980326 and Its Possible Implications

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Swift Deep Galactic Plane Survey (DGPS) Phase I Catalog

scientific article published in December 2023

The X-shooter GRB afterglow legacy sample (XS-GRB)

scientific article

The X‐Ray, Optical, and Infrared Counterpart to GRB 980703

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The blue host galaxy of the red GRB 000418

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The bright optical afterglow of the long GRB 001007

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The extraordinarily bright optical afterglow of GRB 991208 and its host galaxy

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The fraction of ionizing radiation from massive stars that escapes to the intergalactic medium

scholarly article

The host of GRB 030323 at $\mathsf{\textit{z}=3.372}$: A very high column density DLA system with a low metallicity

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The host-galaxy response to the afterglow of GRB 100901A

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The luminous host galaxy, faint supernova and rapid afterglow rebrightening of GRB 100418A

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The metallicity and dust content of a redshift 5 gamma-ray burst host galaxy

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The mysterious optical afterglow spectrum of GRB 140506A atz= 0.889

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

scholarly article

The unpolarized macronova associated with the gravitational wave event GW 170817

VLT Spectroscopy of GRB 990510 and GRB 990712: Probing the Faint and Bright Ends of the Gamma‐Ray Burst Host Galaxy Population

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Variable polarization in the optical afterglow of GRB 021004

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Very High Column Density and Small Reddening toward GRB 020124 atz = 3.20

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Wide-band simultaneous observations of pulsars: disentangling dispersion measure and profile variations

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Wide-band, low-frequency pulse profiles of 100 radio pulsars with LOFAR

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Wide-field LOFAR imaging of the field around the double-double radio galaxy B1834+620. A fresh view on a restarted AGN and doubeltjes

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics