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Jens Hjorth

PhD

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4571-2306

  • Jagtvej 128, 2200 København N.

19952019

Research activity per year

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Primary fields of research

Cosmology, astrophysical transients

Current research

Electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves

Gravitationally lensed transients

The origin of universality in dark-matter halos

Introductory remarks on publicationslist

> 300 refereed publications with > 20000 citations listed in the Astrophysics Data System
~20 scientific papers in Nature or Science
Most cited paper: J. Hjorth et al. Nature 423, 847–850 (2003): > 1000 citations
h-index (number of publications with more than h citations): 79

Keywords

  • Faculty of Science
  • Astrophysics
  • Astronomy
  • Cosmology
  • Dark matter
  • Dark energy
  • Gamma-ray bursts
  • Galaxies
  • Space research

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  • Magnified or multiply imaged? - Search strategies for gravitationally lensed supernovae in wide-field surveys

    Wojtak, R., Hjorth, J. & Gall, C., 11 Aug 2019, In: Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487, 3, p. 3342-3355

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

    12 Citations (Scopus)

  • Nature of the unusual transient AT 2018cow from HI observations of its host galaxy

    Michalowski, M. J., Kamphuis, P., Hjorth, J., Kann, D. A., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Galbany, L., Fynbo, J. P. U., Ghosh, A., Hunt, L. K., Kuncarayakti, H., Le Floc'h, E., Lesniewska, A., Misra, K., Guelbenzu, A. N., Palazzi, E., Rasmussen, J., Resmi, L., Rossi, A., Savaglio, S., Schady, P., & 6 othersSchulze, S., Thone, C. C., Watson, D., Jozsa, G. I. G., Serra, P. & Smirnov, O. M., 1 Jul 2019, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 627, 8 p., A106.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

    3 Citations (Scopus)

  • Searching for Highly Magnified Stars at Cosmological Distances: Discovery of a Redshift 0.94 Blue Supergiant in Archival Images of the Galaxy Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403

    Chen, W., Kelly, P. L., Diego, J. M., Oguri, M., Williams, L. L. R., Zitrin, A., Treu, T. L., Smith, N., Broadhurst, T. J., Kaiser, N., Foley, R. J., Filippenko, A. V., Salo, L., Hjorth, J. & Selsing, J., 10 Aug 2019, In: Astrophysical Journal. 881, 1, 11 p., 8.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

    12 Citations (Scopus)

  • Short GRB 160821B: A Reverse Shock, a Refreshed Shock, and a Well-sampled Kilonova

    Lamb, G. P., Tanvir, N. R., Levan, A. J., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Kawaguchi, K., Corsi, A., Evans, P. A., Gompertz, B., Malesani, D. B., Page, K. L., Wiersema, K., Rosswog, S., Shibata, M., Tanaka, M., van der Horst, A. J., Cano, Z., Fynbo, J. P. U., Fruchter, A. S., Greiner, J., Heintz, K., & 14 othersHiggins, A., Hjorth, J., Izzo, L., Jakobsson, P., Kann, D. A., O'Brien, P. T., Perley, D. A., Pian, E., Pugliese, G., Starling, R. L. C., Thone, C. C., Watson, D., Wijers, R. A. M. J. & Xu, D., 20 Sept 2019, In: Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 883, 1, 12 p., 48.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

    31 Citations (Scopus)

  • The case for a high-redshift origin of GRB100205A

    Chrimes, A. A., Levan, A. J., Stanway, E. R., Berger, E., Bloom, J. S., Cenko, S. B., Cobb, B. E., Cucchiara, A., Fruchter, A. S., Gompertz, B. P., Hjorth, J., Jakobsson, P., Lyman, J. D., O'Brien, P., Perley, D. A., Tanvir, N. R., Wheatley, P. J. & Wiersema, K., 1 Sept 2019, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488, 1, p. 902-909

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

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

    Selsing, J., Malesani, D., Goldoni, P., Fynbo, J. P. U., Kruehler, T., Antonelli, L. A., Arabsalmani, M., Bolmer, J., Cano, Z., Christensen, L., Covino, S., D'Avanzo, P., D'Elia, V., De Cia, A., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Flores, H., Fliis, M., Gomboc, A., Greiner, J., Groot, P., & 36 othersHammer, F., Hartoog, O. E., Heintz, K. E., Hjorth, J., Jakobsson, P., Japelj, J., Kann, D. A., Kaper, L., Ledoux, C., Leloudas, G., Levan, A. J., Maiorano, E., Melandri, A., Milvang-Jensen, B., Palazzi, E., Palmerio, J. T., Perley, D. A., Pian, E., Piranomonte, S., Pugliese, G., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Savaglio, S., Schady, P., Schulze, S., Sollerman, J., Sparre, M., Tagliaferri, G., Tanvir, N. R., Thone, C. C., Vergani, S. D., Vreeswijk, P., Watson, D., Wiersema, K., Wijers, R., Xu, D. & Zafar, T., 1 Mar 2019, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 623, 42 p., A92.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

    15 Citations (Scopus)

  • Unveiling the enigma of ATLAS17aeu

    Melandri, A., Rossi, A., Benetti, S., D'Elia, V., Piranomonte, S., Palazzi, E., Levan, A. J., Branchesi, M., Castro-Tirado, A. J., D'Avanzo, P., Hu, Y-D., Raimondo, G., Tanvir, N. R., Tomasella, L., Amati, L., Campana, S., Carini, R., Covino, S., Cusano, F., Dadina, M., & 72 othersDella Valle, M., Fan, X., Garnavich, P., Grado, A., Greco, G., Hjorth, J., Lyman, J. D., Masetti, N., O'Brien, P., Pian, E., Perego, A., Salvaterra, R., Stella, L., Stratta, G., Yang, S., di Paola, A., Caballero-Garcia, M. D., Fruchter, A. S., Giunta, A., Longo, F., Pinamonti, M., Sokolov, V. V., Testa, V., Valeev, A. F., Brocato, E., Cantiello, M., de Luise, F., Antonelli, L. A., Pulone, L., Ascenzi, S., Israel, G., Casella, P., Stamerra, A., Iannicola, G., Lisi, M., Getman, F., Botticella, M. T., Schipani, P., Nicastro, L., Masetti, L., Vergani, D., Bulgarelli, A., De Cesare, G., Torresi, E., Cimatti, A., Brusa, M., Lanzuisi, G., Moresco, M. O. M., Paladino, R., Talia, M., Maiorano, E., Cappellaro, E., Mapelli, M., Ciolfi, R., Turatto, M., Tagliaferri, G., Ghisellini, G., Ghirlanda, G., Bernardini, M. G., Possenti, A., Burgay, M., Marinoni, S., Giuffrida, G., Marrese, P., Razzano, M., Patricelli, B., Cella, G., Spera, M., Savaglio, S., Izzo, L., Capaccioli, M. & Bulla, M., 1 Jan 2019, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 621, 8 p., A81.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

    1 Citation (Scopus)

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

    Cantiello, M., Jensen, J. B., Blakeslee, J. P., Berger, E., Levan, A. J., Tanvir, N. R., Raimondo, G., Brocato, E., Alexander, K. D., Blanchard, P. K., Branchesi, M., Cano, Z., Chornock, R., Covino, S., Cowperthwaite, P. S., D'Avanzo, P., Eftekhari, T., Fong, W., Fruchter, A. S., Grado, A., & 8 othersHjorth, J., Holz, D. E., Lyman, J. D., Mandel, I., Margutti, R., Nicholl, M., Villar, V. A. & Williams, P. K. G., 20 Feb 2018, In: Astrophysics Journal Letters. 854, 2, 7 p., L31.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

    62 Citations (Scopus)
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  • The Young Supernova Experiment Data Release 1 (YSE DR1) Light Curves

    Aleo, P. D. (Creator), Malanchev, K. (Creator), Sharief, S. N. (Creator), Jones, D. O. (Creator), Narayan, G. (Creator), Ryan, F. J. (Creator), Villar, V. A. (Creator), Angus, C. R. (Creator), Baldassare, V. F. (Creator), Bustamante-Rosell, M. J. (Creator), Chatterjee, D. (Creator), Cold, C. (Creator), Coulter, D. A. (Creator), Davis, K. W. (Creator), Dhawan, S. (Creator), Drout, M. R. (Creator), Engel, A. (Creator), French, K. D. (Creator), Gagliano, A. (Creator), Gall, C. (Creator), Hjorth, J. (Creator), Huber, M. E. (Creator), Jacobson-Galan, W. V. (Creator), Kilpatrick, C. D. (Creator), Langeroodi, D. (Creator), Macias, P. (Creator), Mandel, K. S. (Creator), Margutti, R. (Creator), Matasic, F. (Creator), McGill, P. (Creator), Pierel, J. D. R. (Creator), Ransome, C. L. (Creator), Rojas-Bravo, C. (Creator), Siebert, M. R. (Creator), Smith, K. W. (Creator), de Soto, K. M. (Creator), Stroh, M. C. (Creator), Tinyanont, S. (Creator), Taggart, K. (Creator), Ward, S. M. (Creator), Wojtak, R. J. (Creator), Auchettl, K. (Creator), Blanchard, P. K. (Creator), de Boer, T. J. L. (Creator), Boyd, B. M. (Creator), Carroll, C. M. (Creator), Chambers, K. C. (Creator), DeMarchi, L. (Creator), Dimitriadis, G. (Creator), Dodd, S. A. (Creator), Earl, N. (Creator), Farias, D. (Creator), Gao, H. (Creator), Gomez, S. (Creator), Grayling, M. (Creator), Grillo, C. (Creator), Hayes, E. E. (Creator), Hung, T. (Creator), Izzo, L. (Creator), Khetan, N. (Creator), Kolborg, A. N. (Creator), Law-Smith, J. A. P. (Creator), LeBaron, N. (Creator), Lin, C. C. (Creator), Luo, Y. (Creator), Magnier, E. A. (Creator), Matthews, D. (Creator), Mockler, B. (Creator), O'Grady, A. J. G. (Creator), Pan, Y. (Creator), Politsch, C. A. (Creator), Raimundo, S. (Creator), Rest, A. (Creator), Ridden-Harper, R. (Creator), Sarangi, A. (Creator), Schrøder, S. L. (Creator), Smartt, S. J. (Creator), Terreran, G. (Creator), Thorp, S. (Creator), Vazquez, J. (Creator), Wainscoat, R. (Creator), Wang, Q. (Creator), Wasserman, A. R. (Creator), Yadavalli, S. K. (Creator), Yarza, R. (Creator) & Zenati, Y. (Creator), Zenodo, 2022

    DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7317476, https://zenodo.org/records/7317476

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