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Graur, O, Maguire, K, Ryan, R, Nicholl, M, Avelino, A, Riess, AG, Shingles, L, Seitenzahl, IR & Fisher, R 2020, 'A year-long plateau in the late-time near-infrared light curves of type Ia supernovae', Nature Astronomy, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 188–195. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0901-1
Nicholl, M, Blanchard, PK, Berger, E, Gomez, S, Margutti, R, Alexander, KD, Guillochon, J, Leja, J, Chornock, R, Snios, B, Auchettl, K, Bruce, AG, Challis, P, D'Orazio, DJ, Drout, MR, Eftekhari, T, Foley, RJ, Graur, O, Kilpatrick, CD, Lawrence, A, Piro, AL, Rojas-Bravo, C, Ross, NP, Short, P, Smartt, SJ, Smith, KW & Stalder, B 2019, 'The tidal disruption event AT2017eqx: spectroscopic evolution from hydrogen rich to poor suggests an atmosphere and outflow', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 488, no. 2, pp. 1878–1893. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1837
Gomez, S, Berger, E, Nicholl, M, Blanchard, PK, Villar, VA, Patton, L, Chornock, R, Leja, J, Hosseinzadeh, G & Cowperthwaite, PS 2019, 'SN 2016iet: the pulsational or pair instability explosion of a low-metallicity massive CO core embedded in a dense hydrogen-poor circumstellar medium', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 881, no. 2, 87. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2f92
Hosseinzadeh, G, Cowperthwaite, PS, Gomez, S, Villar, VA, Nicholl, M, Margutti, R, Berger, E, Chornock, R, Paterson, K, Fong, W, Savchenko, V, Short, P, Alexander, KD, Blanchard, PK, Braga, J, Calkins, ML, Cartier, R, Coppejans, DL, Eftekhari, T, Laskar, T, Ly, C, Patton, L, Pelisoli, I, Reichart, DE, Terreran, G & Williams, PKG 2019, 'Follow-up of the neutron star bearing gravitational-wave candidate events S190425z and S190426c with MMT and SOAR', The Astrophysical Journal. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab271c
Blanchard, PK, Nicholl, M, Berger, E, Chornock, R, Milisavljevic, D, Margutti, R & Gomez, S 2019, 'A hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova with enhanced iron-group absorption: a new link between SLSNe and broad-lined type Ic SNe ', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 872, no. 1, 90. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aafa13
Nicholl, M, Berger, E, Blanchard, PK, Gomez, S & Chornock, R 2019, 'Nebular-phase spectra of superluminous supernovae: physical insights from observational and statistical properties ', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 871, no. 1, 102. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf470
Scott, S, Nicholl, M, Blanchard, P, Gomez, S & Berger, E 2019, 'Bright type IIP supernovae in low-metallicity galaxies', Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 870, no. 2, L16. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aaf8ad
Villar, VA, Nicholl, M & Berger, E 2018, 'Superluminous supernovae in LSST: rates, detection metrics, and light-curve modeling', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 869, no. 2, 166. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaee6a
Moriya, TJ, Nicholl, M & Guillochon, J 2018, 'Systematic investigation of the fallback accretion-powered model for hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 867, no. 2, 113. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aae53d
Nicholl, M, Blanchard, PK, Berger, E, Alexander, KD, Metzger, BD, Bhirombhakdi, K, Chornock, R, Coppejans, D, Gomez, S, Margalit, B, Margutti, R & Terreran, G 2018, 'One thousand days of SN2015bn: HST imaging shows a light curve flattening consistent with magnetar predictions', Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 866, no. 2, L24. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aae70d
Blanchard, PK, Nicholl, M, Berger, E, Chornock, R, Margutti, R, Milisavljevic, D, Fong, W, MacLeod, C & Bhirombhakdi, K 2018, 'The type I superluminous supernova PS16aqv: lightcurve complexity and deep limits on radioactive ejecta in a fast event', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 865, no. 1, 9. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad8b9
Guillochon, J, Nicholl, M, Villar, VA, Mockler, B, Narayan, G, Mandel, KS, Berger, E & Williams, PKG 2018, 'MOSFiT: Modular Open Source Fitter for Transients', Astrophysical Journal. Supplement Series, vol. 236, no. 1, 6. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aab761
Villar, VA, Guillochon, J, Berger, E, Metzger, BD, Cowperthwaite, PS, Nicholl, M, Alexander, KD, Blanchard, PK, Chornock, R, Eftekhari, T, Fong, W, Margutti, R & Williams, PKG 2017, 'The combined ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared light curves of the kilonova associated with the binary neutron star merger GW170817: unified data set, analytic models, and physical implications', Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 851, no. 1, L21. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa9c84
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, 1M2H Collaboration, Dark Energy Camera GW-EM Collaboration, DES Collaboration, DLT40 Collaboration, Las Cumbres Observatory Collaboration, The VINROUGE Collaboration, MASTER Collaboration & Nicholl, M 2017, 'A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant', Nature, vol. 551, no. 7678, pp. 85-88. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24471
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LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, Fermi GBM, Icecube Collaboration, AstroSat Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager Team, IPN Collaboration, The Insight-Hxmt Collaboration, ANTARES Collaboration, The Swift Collaboration, AGILE Team, The 1M2H Team, The Dark Energy Camera GW-EM Collaboration and the DES Collaboration, The DLT40 Collaboration, GRAWITA: GRAvitational Wave Inaf TeAm, ATCA: Australia Telescope Compact Array, ASKAP: Australian SKA Pathfinder, Las Cumbres Observatory Group, OzGrav, DWF (Deeper Wider Faster program) AST3 and CAASTRO Collaborations, The VINROUGE Collaboration, MASTER Collaboration, J-GEM, GROWTH JAGWAR Caltech-NRAO TTU-NRAO and NuSTAR Collaborations, Pan-STARRS, TZAC Consortium, The MAXI Team, KU Collaboration, Nordic Optical Telescope, ePESSTO, GROND, Texas Tech University, SALT Group, TOROS: Transient Robotic Observatory of the South Collaboration, The BOOTES Collaboration, MWA: Murchison Widefield Array, IKI-GW Follow-up Collaboration, The CALET Collaboration, H.E.S.S. Collaboration, LOFAR Collaboration, LWA: Long Wavelength Array, HAWC Collaboration, The Pierre Auger Collaboration, ALMA Collaboration, Euro VLBI Team, Pi of the Sky Collaboration, The Chandra Team at McGill University, DFN: Desert Fireball Network, ATLAS Collaboration, High Time Resolution Universe Survey, RIMAS and RATIR & Nicholl, M 2017, 'Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger', Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 848, no. 2, L12. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9
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