List of works - Matt Nicholl

A Galaxy-targeted Search for the Optical Counterpart of the Candidate NS–BH Merger S190814bv with <i>Magellan</i>

scientific article published in 2019

A Precise Distance to the Host Galaxy of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 Using Surface Brightness Fluctuations ⬇️

A Radio Source Coincident with the Superluminous Supernova PTF10hgi: Evidence for a Central Engine and an Analog of the Repeating FRB 121102? ⬇️

article published in 2019

A Search for Optical Emission from Binary Black Hole Merger GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera ⬇️

scholarly article by Z. Doctor et al published 15 March 2019 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

A detailed spectroscopic study of tidal disruption events

scientific article published in March 2022

A long life of excess: The interacting transient SN 2017hcc

A year-long plateau in the late-time near-infrared light curves of type Ia supernovae

scientific article published on 7 October 2019

Accretion disc cooling and narrow absorption lines in the tidal disruption event AT 2019dsg

scientific article published on 24 March 2021

An Embedded X-Ray Source Shines through the Aspherical AT 2018cow: Revealing the Inner Workings of the Most Luminous Fast-evolving Optical Transients

article published in 2019

An Ultraviolet Excess in the Superluminous Supernova Gaia16apd Reveals a Powerful Central Engine ⬇️

An elliptical accretion disk following the tidal disruption event AT 2020zso

scientific article published on 27 September 2022

Close, bright, and boxy: the superluminous SN 2018hti

scientific article published on 17 March 2022

Complexity in the light curves and spectra of slow-evolving superluminous supernovae

scientific article

Core-collapse supernova subtypes in luminous infrared galaxies

scientific article

DES16C3cje: A low-luminosity, long-lived supernova

scientific article

Delayed appearance and evolution of coronal lines in the TDE AT2019qiz

scientific article published on 26 July 2023

Empirical Constraints on the Origin of Fast Radio Bursts: Volumetric Rates and Host Galaxy Demographics as a Test of Millisecond Magnetar Connection

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Erratum: Corrigendum: Slowly fading super-luminous supernovae that are not pair-instability explosions

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum: On the diversity of superluminous supernovae: ejected mass as the dominant factor: Table 1

scholarly article published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Explosion of a massive, He-rich star at z = 0.16

scientific article

Fast and not-so-furious: Case study of the fast and faint Type IIb SN 2021bxu

scientific article published on 28 June 2023

Follow-up of the Neutron Star Bearing Gravitational-wave Candidate Events S190425z and S190426c with MMT and SOAR

scholarly article

GRB 180418A: A Possibly Short Gamma-Ray Burst with a Wide-angle Outflow in a Faint Host Galaxy

scientific article published in May 2021

GRB 201015A and the nature of low-luminosity soft gamma-ray bursts

Hydrogen-rich supernovae beyond the neutrino-driven core-collapse paradigm

scientific article published in January 2017

Jets in Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae: Constraints from a Comprehensive Analysis of Radio Observations

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

LSQ13fn: A type II-Plateau supernova with a possibly low metallicity progenitor that breaks the standardised candle relation ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

LSQ14bdq: A TYPE Ic SUPER-LUMINOUS SUPERNOVA WITH A DOUBLE-PEAKED LIGHT CURVE ⬇️

article by Matt Nicholl et al published 1 July 2015 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Lasair: The Transient Alert Broker for LSST:UK

scholarly article

Less Than 1% of Core-collapse Supernovae in the Local Universe Occur in Elliptical Galaxies

scientific article published in March 2022

Light-curve Structure and Hα Line Formation in the Tidal Disruption Event AT 2019azh

scientific article published in July 2024

Limits on the Hard X-Ray Emission From the Periodic Fast Radio Burst FRB 180916.J0158+65

scientific article published in April 2022

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

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

Long-duration superluminous supernovae at late times ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

OGLE-2013-SN-079: a lonely supernova consistent with a helium shell detonation ⬇️

scientific article

Observation of inverse Compton emission from a long γ-ray burst

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Observational constraints on the optical and near-infrared emission from the neutron star–black hole binary merger candidate S190814bv

scientific article

On the diversity of superluminous supernovae: ejected mass as the dominant factor ⬇️

scientific article

On the nature of hydrogen-rich superluminous supernovae

scientific article

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO: survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

PS15cey and PS17cke: prospective candidates from the Pan-STARRS Search for kilonovae

scientific article

PS16dtm: A Tidal Disruption Event in a Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxy

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Pan-STARRS and PESSTO search for an optical counterpart to the LIGO gravitational-wave source GW150914 ⬇️

scholarly article

Pan-STARRS1 3Pi transients

scientific article published in January 2014

Panning for gold, but finding helium: Discovery of the ultra-stripped supernova SN 2019wxt from gravitational-wave follow-up observations

scientific article published in July 2023

Photometric and spectroscopic evolution of the interacting transient AT 2016jbu(Gaia16cfr)

scientific article published on 6 May 2022

Probable supernova discovered in NGC 4258 (Messier 106) by Pan-STARRS1

scientific article published in January 2014

Progenitor, environment, and modelling of the interacting transient AT 2016jbu (Gaia16cfr)

scientific article published on 6 May 2022

Publisher Correction: Hydrogen-rich supernovae beyond the neutrino-driven core-collapse paradigm

scholarly article published in Nature Astronomy

Real-time discovery of AT2020xnd: a fast, luminous ultraviolet transient with minimal radioactive ejecta

scientific article published on 9 October 2021

Revealing the Progenitor of SN 2021zby through Analysis of the TESS Shock-cooling Light Curve

SN 2012aa: A transient between Type Ibc core-collapse and superluminous supernovae ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

SN 2015bn: A DETAILED MULTI-WAVELENGTH VIEW OF A NEARBY SUPERLUMINOUS SUPERNOVA ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

SN 2016iet: The Pulsational or Pair Instability Explosion of a Low-metallicity Massive CO Core Embedded in a Dense Hydrogen-poor Circumstellar Medium

scientific article published on 15 August 2019

SN 2017gci: a nearby Type I Superluminous Supernova with a bumpy tail

scientific article published on 5 January 2021

SN 2017gmr: An Energetic Type II-P Supernova with Asymmetries

scientific article published in November 2019

SN 2018agk: A Prototypical Type Ia Supernova with a Smooth Power-law Rise in Kepler (K2)

scientific article published on 20 December 2021

SN 2018bsz: A Type I superluminous supernova with aspherical circumstellar material

scientific article published on 30 September 2022

SN 2019ehk: A Double-peaked Ca-rich Transient with Luminous X-Ray Emission and Shock-ionized Spectral Features

scientific article

SN 2019hcc: a Type II supernova displaying early O ii lines

scientific article published on 20 July 2021

SN 2019muj – a well-observed Type Iax supernova that bridges the luminosity gap of the class

scientific article

SN 2021gno: a calcium-rich transient with double-peaked light curves

scientific article published on 8 September 2023

SN 2023emq: A Flash-ionized Ibn Supernova with Possible C iii Emission

scientific article published in December 2023

SN2018kzr: A Rapidly Declining Transient from the Destruction of a White Dwarf ⬇️

SN 2020acat: an energetic fast rising Type IIb supernova

scientific article published on 5 May 2022

SN 2020cpg: an energetic link between Type IIb and Ib supernovae

scientific article published on 22 June 2021

SN 2021zny: an early flux excess combined with late-time oxygen emission suggests a double white dwarf merger event

Seeing double: the frequency and detectability of double-peaked superluminous supernova light curves ⬇️

Short GRB Host Galaxies. I. Photometric and Spectroscopic Catalogs, Host Associations, and Galactocentric Offsets

scientific article published in November 2022

Slowly fading super-luminous supernovae that are not pair-instability explosions

scientific article

Strong Carbon Features and a Red Early Color in the Underluminous Type Ia SN 2022xkq

scientific article published on 19 December 2023

Super-luminous type IC supernovae: catching a magnetar by the tail ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

SuperBol: A User-friendly Python Routine for Bolometric Light Curves

scientific article published on 13 December 2018

Superluminous supernova SN 2015bn in the nebular phase: evidence for the engine-powered explosion of a stripped massive star ⬇️

scholarly article

Superluminous supernova progenitors have a half-solar metallicity threshold

scholarly article

Superluminous supernovae from PESSTO ⬇️

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

Target-of-opportunity Observations of Gravitational-wave Events with Vera C. Rubin Observatory

scientific article published in 2022

The Birth of a Relativistic Jet Following the Disruption of a Star by a Cosmological Black Hole

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Discovery of the Optical Counterpart Using the Dark Energy Camera ⬇️

scholarly article

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models ⬇️

article by P. S. Cowperthwaite et al published 16 October 2017 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. III. Optical and UV Spectra of a Blue Kilonova from Fast Polar Ejecta ⬇️

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. IV. Detection of Near-infrared Signatures of r-process Nucleosynthesis with Gemini-South ⬇️

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. V. Rising X-Ray Emission from an Off-axis Jet ⬇️

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. VI. Radio Constraints on a Relativistic Jet and Predictions for Late-time Emission from the Kilonova Ejecta ⬇️

scientific article

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. VII. Properties of the Host Galaxy and Constraints on the Merger Timescale ⬇️

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. VIII. A Comparison to Cosmological Short-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts ⬇️

The Luminosity Function of Tidal Disruption Events from Fallback-powered Emission: Implications for the Black Hole Mass Function

scientific article published in May 2023

The Luminous and Double-peaked Type Ic Supernova 2019stc: Evidence for Multiple Energy Sources

scientific article published on 04 June 2021

The Superluminous Supernova SN 2017egm in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 3191: A Metal-rich Environment Can Support a Typical SLSN Evolution ⬇️

scholarly article

The evolution of superluminous supernova LSQ14mo and its interacting host galaxy system

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The host galaxy and late-time evolution of the superluminous supernova PTF12dam ⬇️

scholarly article

The nuclear transient AT 2017gge: a tidal disruption event in a dusty and gas-rich environment and the awakening of a dormant SMBH

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

The rise and fall of the iron-strong nuclear transient PS16dtm

The superluminous supernova PS1-11ap: bridging the gap between low and high redshift

scholarly article

The superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh as a tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole ⬇️

scholarly article by Giorgos Leloudas et al published 12 December 2016 in Nature Astronomy

The supernova CSS121015:004244+132827: a clue for understanding superluminous supernovae

scientific article

The tidal disruption event AT2017eqx: spectroscopic evolution from hydrogen rich to poor suggests an atmosphere and outflow

scholarly article

The tidal disruption event AT 2018hyz – I. Double-peaked emission lines and a flat Balmer decrement

Towards an understanding of long gamma-ray burst environments through circumstellar medium population synthesis predictions

scientific article published on 29 June 2022

Transitional events in the spectrophotometric regime between stripped envelope and superluminous supernovae

scientific article published on 5 October 2021

Using 4MOST to refine the measurement of galaxy properties: a case study of supernova hosts

VERITAS and Fermi-LAT Constraints on the Gamma-Ray Emission from Superluminous Supernovae SN2015bn and SN2017egm

scientific article published in March 2023

Weak Mass Loss from the Red Supergiant Progenitor of the Type II SN 2021yja

scientific article published in August 2022

X-Rays from the Location of the Double-humped Transient ASASSN-15lh. ⬇️

scientific article published on 6 February 2017

List of works by Matt Nicholl

A Galaxy-targeted Search for the Optical Counterpart of the Candidate NS–BH Merger S190814bv with <i>Magellan</i>

A Precise Distance to the Host Galaxy of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 Using Surface Brightness Fluctuations ⬇️

A Radio Source Coincident with the Superluminous Supernova PTF10hgi: Evidence for a Central Engine and an Analog of the Repeating FRB 121102? ⬇️

A Search for Optical Emission from Binary Black Hole Merger GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera ⬇️

A detailed spectroscopic study of tidal disruption events

A long life of excess: The interacting transient SN 2017hcc

A year-long plateau in the late-time near-infrared light curves of type Ia supernovae

Accretion disc cooling and narrow absorption lines in the tidal disruption event AT 2019dsg

An Embedded X-Ray Source Shines through the Aspherical AT 2018cow: Revealing the Inner Workings of the Most Luminous Fast-evolving Optical Transients

An Ultraviolet Excess in the Superluminous Supernova Gaia16apd Reveals a Powerful Central Engine ⬇️

An elliptical accretion disk following the tidal disruption event AT 2020zso

Close, bright, and boxy: the superluminous SN 2018hti

Complexity in the light curves and spectra of slow-evolving superluminous supernovae

Core-collapse supernova subtypes in luminous infrared galaxies

DES16C3cje: A low-luminosity, long-lived supernova

Delayed appearance and evolution of coronal lines in the TDE AT2019qiz

Empirical Constraints on the Origin of Fast Radio Bursts: Volumetric Rates and Host Galaxy Demographics as a Test of Millisecond Magnetar Connection

Erratum: Corrigendum: Slowly fading super-luminous supernovae that are not pair-instability explosions

Erratum: On the diversity of superluminous supernovae: ejected mass as the dominant factor: Table 1

Explosion of a massive, He-rich star at z = 0.16

Fast and not-so-furious: Case study of the fast and faint Type IIb SN 2021bxu

Follow-up of the Neutron Star Bearing Gravitational-wave Candidate Events S190425z and S190426c with MMT and SOAR

GRB 180418A: A Possibly Short Gamma-Ray Burst with a Wide-angle Outflow in a Faint Host Galaxy

GRB 201015A and the nature of low-luminosity soft gamma-ray bursts

Hydrogen-rich supernovae beyond the neutrino-driven core-collapse paradigm

Jets in Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae: Constraints from a Comprehensive Analysis of Radio Observations

LSQ13fn: A type II-Plateau supernova with a possibly low metallicity progenitor that breaks the standardised candle relation ⬇️

LSQ14bdq: A TYPE Ic SUPER-LUMINOUS SUPERNOVA WITH A DOUBLE-PEAKED LIGHT CURVE ⬇️

Lasair: The Transient Alert Broker for LSST:UK

Less Than 1% of Core-collapse Supernovae in the Local Universe Occur in Elliptical Galaxies

Light-curve Structure and Hα Line Formation in the Tidal Disruption Event AT 2019azh

Limits on the Hard X-Ray Emission From the Periodic Fast Radio Burst FRB 180916.J0158+65

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

Long-duration superluminous supernovae at late times ⬇️

Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger ⬇️

OGLE-2013-SN-079: a lonely supernova consistent with a helium shell detonation ⬇️

Observation of inverse Compton emission from a long γ-ray burst

Observational constraints on the optical and near-infrared emission from the neutron star–black hole binary merger candidate S190814bv

On the diversity of superluminous supernovae: ejected mass as the dominant factor ⬇️

On the nature of hydrogen-rich superluminous supernovae

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO: survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects ⬇️

PS15cey and PS17cke: prospective candidates from the Pan-STARRS Search for kilonovae

PS16dtm: A Tidal Disruption Event in a Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxy

Pan-STARRS and PESSTO search for an optical counterpart to the LIGO gravitational-wave source GW150914 ⬇️

Pan-STARRS1 3Pi transients

Panning for gold, but finding helium: Discovery of the ultra-stripped supernova SN 2019wxt from gravitational-wave follow-up observations

Photometric and spectroscopic evolution of the interacting transient AT 2016jbu(Gaia16cfr)

Probable supernova discovered in NGC 4258 (Messier 106) by Pan-STARRS1

Progenitor, environment, and modelling of the interacting transient AT 2016jbu (Gaia16cfr)

Publisher Correction: Hydrogen-rich supernovae beyond the neutrino-driven core-collapse paradigm

Real-time discovery of AT2020xnd: a fast, luminous ultraviolet transient with minimal radioactive ejecta

Revealing the Progenitor of SN 2021zby through Analysis of the TESS Shock-cooling Light Curve

SN 2012aa: A transient between Type Ibc core-collapse and superluminous supernovae ⬇️

SN 2015bn: A DETAILED MULTI-WAVELENGTH VIEW OF A NEARBY SUPERLUMINOUS SUPERNOVA ⬇️

SN 2016iet: The Pulsational or Pair Instability Explosion of a Low-metallicity Massive CO Core Embedded in a Dense Hydrogen-poor Circumstellar Medium

SN 2017gci: a nearby Type I Superluminous Supernova with a bumpy tail

SN 2017gmr: An Energetic Type II-P Supernova with Asymmetries

SN 2018agk: A Prototypical Type Ia Supernova with a Smooth Power-law Rise in Kepler (K2)

SN 2018bsz: A Type I superluminous supernova with aspherical circumstellar material

SN 2019ehk: A Double-peaked Ca-rich Transient with Luminous X-Ray Emission and Shock-ionized Spectral Features

SN 2019hcc: a Type II supernova displaying early O ii lines

SN 2019muj – a well-observed Type Iax supernova that bridges the luminosity gap of the class

SN 2021gno: a calcium-rich transient with double-peaked light curves

SN 2023emq: A Flash-ionized Ibn Supernova with Possible C iii Emission

SN2018kzr: A Rapidly Declining Transient from the Destruction of a White Dwarf ⬇️

SN 2020acat: an energetic fast rising Type IIb supernova

SN 2020cpg: an energetic link between Type IIb and Ib supernovae

SN 2021zny: an early flux excess combined with late-time oxygen emission suggests a double white dwarf merger event

Seeing double: the frequency and detectability of double-peaked superluminous supernova light curves ⬇️