Jens Hjorth

Jens Hjorth

Professor

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


  1. 2014
  2. Published

    Spectroscopy of the short-hard GRB 130603B: The host galaxy and environment of a compact object merger

    Postigo, A. D. U., Thoene, C. C., Rowlinson, A., Garcia-Benito, R., Levan, A. J., Gorosabel, J., Goldoni, P., Schulze, S., Zafar, T., Wiersema, K., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Melandri, A., D'Avanzo, P., Oates, S., D'Elia, V., Pasquale, M. D., Kruehler, T., Horst, A. J. V. D., Xu, D., Watson, D. & 23 others, Piranomonte, S., Vergani, S., Milvang-Jensen, B., Kaper, L., Malesani, Daniele Bjørn, Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Cano, Z., Covino, S., Flores, H., Greiss, S., Hammer, F., Hartoog, O. E., Hellmich, S., Heuser, C., Hjorth, Jens, Jakobsson, P., Mottola, S., Sparre, M., Sollerman, J., Tagliaferri, G., Tanvir, N. R., Vestergaard, Marianne & Wijers, R. A. M. J., 1 Mar 2014, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 563, A62.

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  3. Published

    Type Ia Supernova Rate Measurements to Redshift 2.5 from CANDELS: Searching for Prompt Explosions in the Early Universe

    Rodney, S. A., Riess, A. G., Strolger, L-G., Dahlen, T., Graur, O., Casertano, S., Dickinson, M. E., Ferguson, H. C., Garnavich, P., Hayden, B., Jha, S. W., Jones, D. O., Kirshner, R. P., Koekemoer, A. M., McCully, C., Mobasher, B., Patel, B., Weiner, B. J., Cenko, S. B., Clubb, K. I. & 18 others, Cooper, M., Filippenko, A. V., Frederiksen, T. F., Hjorth, Jens, Leibundgut, B., Matheson, T., Nayyeri, H., Penner, K., Trump, J., Silverman, J. M., Vivian, U., Bostroem, K. A., Challis, P., Rajan, A., Wolff, S., Faber, S. M., Grogin, N. A. & Kocevski, D., 4 Jul 2014, In: Astronomical Journal. 148, 1, 28 p., 13.

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  4. Published

    GRB 120422A/SN 2012bz: Bridging the gap between low- and high-luminosity gamma-ray bursts

    Schulze, S., Malesani, D., Cucchiara, A., Tanvir, N. R., Kruhler, T., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Leloudas, G., Lyman, J., Bersier, D., Wiersema, K., Perley, D. A., Schady, P., Gorosabel, J., Anderson, J. P., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Cenko, S. B., De Cia, A., Ellerbroek, L. E., Fynbo, J. P. U., Greiner, J. & 45 others, Hjorth, Jens, Kann, D. A., Kaper, L., Klose, S., Levan, A. J., Martin, S., O'Brien, P. T., Page, K. L., Pignata, G., Rapaport, S., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Sollerman, J., Smith, I. A., Sparre, M., Thoene, C. C., Watson, Darach Jafar, Xu, D., Bauer, E. E., Bayliss, M., Bjornsson, G., Bremer, M., Cano, Z., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Frail, D. A., Geier, S., Goldoni, P., Hartoog, O. E., Jakobsson, P., Korhonen, H., Lee, K. Y., Milvang-Jensen, B., Nardini, M., Guelbenzu, A. N., Oguri, M., Pandey, S. B., Petitpas, G., Rossi, A., Sandberg, A., Schmidl, S., Tagliaferri, G., Tilanus, R. P. J., Winters, J. M., Wright, D. & Wuyts, E., 15 Jun 2014, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 566

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  5. Published

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

    Sparre, M., Hartoog, O. E., Krühler, T., Fynbo, J. P. U., Watson, D. J., Wiersema, K., D'Elia, V., Zafar, T., Afonso, P. M. J., Covino, S., Postigo, A. D. U., Flores, H., Goldoni, P., Greiner, J., Hjorth, J., Jakobsson, P., Kaper, L., Klose, S., Levan, A. J., Malesani, D. & 9 others, Milvang-Jensen, B., Nardini, M., Piranomonte, S., Sollerman, J., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Schulze, S., Tanvir, N. R., Vergani, S. D. & Wijers, R. A. M. J., 20 Apr 2014, In: Astrophysical Journal. 785, 2, p. 150-161 12 p.

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  6. Published

    On the nature of the 'hostless' short GRBs

    Tunnicliffe, R. L., Levan, A. J., Tanvir, N. R., Rowlinson, A., Perley, D. A., Bloom, J. S., Cenko, S. B., O'Brien, P. T., Cobb, B. E., Wiersema, K., Malesani, Daniele Bjørn, de Ugarte Postigo, A., Hjorth, Jens, Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall & Jakobsson, P., 1 Jan 2014, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 437, 2, p. 1495-1510 16 p.

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  7. Published

    Circular polarization in the optical afterglow of GRB 121024A

    Wiersema, K., Covino, S., Toma, K., Horst, A. J. V. D., Varela, K., Min, M., Greiner, J., Starling, R. L. C., Tanvir, N. R., Wijers, R. A. M. J., Campana, S., Curran, P. A., Fan, Y., Fynbo, J. P. U., Gorosabel, J., Gomboc, A., Gotz, D., Hjorth, J., Jin, Z. P., Kobayashi, S. & 20 others, Kouveliotou, C., Mundell, C., O'Brien, P. T., Pian, E., Rowlinson, A., Russell, D. M., Salvaterra, R., Alighieri, S. D. S., Tagliaferri, G., Vergani, S. D., Elliott, J., Farina, C., Hartoog, O. E., Karjalainen, R., Klose, S., Knust, F., Levan, A. J., Schady, P., Sudilovski, V. & Willingale, R., 2 Oct 2014, In: Nature. 509, p. 201-204 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Statistical Mechanics of Collisionless Orbits. IV. Distribution of Angular Momentum

    Williams, L. L. R., Hjorth, Jens & Wojtak, Radoslaw Jan, 1 Mar 2014, In: Astrophysical Journal. 783, 1, 10 p., 13.

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  9. 2015
  10. Published

    GRB 140606B/iPTF14bfu: detection of shock-breakout emission from a cosmological gamma-ray burst?

    Cano, Z., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Perley, D., Kruehler, T., Margutti, R., Friis, M., Malesani, Daniele Bjørn, Jakobsson, P., Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Gorosabel, J., Hjorth, Jens, Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Schulze, S., Tanvir, N. R., Thoene, C. C. & Xu, D., 11 Sep 2015, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 452, 2, p. 1535-1552

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  11. Published

    VLT/X-Shooter spectroscopy of the afterglow of the Swift GRB 130606A Chemical abundances and reionisation at z similar to 6

    Hartoog, O. E., Malesani, D., Fynbo, J. P. U., Goto, T., Kruehler, T., Vreeswijk, P. M., De Cia, A., Xu, D., Moller, P., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Flores, H., Goldoni, P., Hjorth, J., Jakobsson, P., Krogager, J. -K., Kaper, L., Ledoux, C., Levan, A. J., Milvang-Jensen, B. & 11 others, Sollerman, J., Sparre, M., Tagliaferri, G., Tanvir, N. R., Postigo, A. D. U., Vergani, S. D., Wiersema, K., Datson, J., Salinas, R., Mikkelsen, K. & Aghanim, N., 1 Aug 2015, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 580, A139.

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  12. Published

    NON-UNIVERSALITY OF DARK-MATTER HALOS: CUSPS, CORES, AND THE CENTRAL POTENTIAL

    Hjorth, Jens, Williams, L. L. R., Wojtak, Radoslaw Jan & McLaughlin, M., 20 Sep 2015, In: Astrophysical Journal. 811, 1, 2.

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  13. Published

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

    Japelj, J., Covino, S., Gomboc, A., Vergani, S. D., Goldoni, P., Selsing, J., Cano, Z., D'Elia, V., Flores, H., Fynbo, J. P. U., Hammer, F., Hjorth, J., Jakobsson, P., Kaper, L., Kopac, D., Kruehler, T., Melandri, A., Piranomonte, S., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Tagliaferri, G. & 4 others, Tanvir, N. R., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Watson, Darach Jafar & Wijers, R. A. M. J., 1 Jul 2015, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 579, A74.

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  14. Published

    Multiple images of a highly magnified supernova formed by an early-type cluster galaxy lens

    Kelly, P. L., Rodney, S. A., Treu, T., Foley, R. J., Brammer, G., Schmidt, K. B., Zitrin, A., Sonnenfeld, A., Strolger, L-G., Graur, O., Filippenko, A. V., Jha, S. W., Riess, A. G., Bradac, M., Weiner, B. J., Scolnic, D., Malkan, M. A., von der Linden, A., Trenti, M., Hjorth, J. & 11 others, Gavazzi, R., Fontana, A., Merten, J. C., McCully, C., Jones, T., Postman, M., Dressler, A., Patel, B., Cenko, S. B., Graham, M. L. & Tucker, B. E., 6 Mar 2015, In: Science. 347, 6226, p. 1123-1126

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  15. Published

    VLT/X-Shooter emission-line spectroscopy of 96 gamma-ray-burst-selected galaxies at 0.1 <z <3.6

    Kruehler, T., Malesani, D., Fynbo, J. P. U., Hartoog, O. E., Hjorth, J., Jakobsson, P., Perley, D. A., Rossi, A., Schady, P., Schulze, S., Tanvir, N. R., Vergani, S. D., Wiersema, K., Afonso, P. M. J., Bolmer, J., Cano, Z., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Filgas, R. & 24 others, Friis, M., Graham, J. F., Greiner, J., Goldoni, P., Gomboc, A., Hammer, F., Japelj, J., Kann, D. A., Kaper, L., Klose, S., Levan, A. J., Leloudas, G., Milvang-Jensen, B., Guelbenzu, A. N., Palazzi, E., Pian, E., Piranomonte, S., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Savaglio, S., Selsing, J., Tagliaferri, G., Vreeswijk, P. M., Watson, Darach Jafar & Xu, D., 1 Sep 2015, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 581, A125.

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  16. Published

    Spectroscopy of superluminous supernova host galaxies: A preference of hydrogen-poor events for extreme emission line galaxies

    Leloudas, G., Kruehler, T., Schulze, S., Gorosabel, J., Christensen, Lise Bech, Mehner, A., Postigo, A. D. U., Amorin, R., Thoene, C. C., Anderson, J. P., Bauer, F. E., Gallazzi, A., Helminiak, K. G., Hjorth, Jens, Ibar, E., Malesani, Daniele Bjørn, Morrell, N., Vinko, J. & Wheeler, J. C., May 2015, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 449, 1, p. 917-932

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  17. Published

    Massive stars formed in atomic hydrogen reservoirs: H i observations of gamma-ray burst host galaxies

    Michalowski, M. J., Gentile, G., Hjorth, J., Krumholz, M. R., Tanvir, N. R., Kamphuis, P., Burlon, D., Baes, M., Basa, S., Berta, S., Castro Ceron, J. M., Crosby, D., D'Elia, V., Elliott, J., Greiner, J., Hunt, L. K., Klose, S., Koprowski, M. P., Le Floc'h, E., Malesani, D. & 13 others, Murphy, T., Guelbenzu, A. N., Palazzi, E., Rasmussen, J., Rossi, A., Savaglio, S., Schady, P., Sollerman, J., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Watson, Darach Jafar, van der Werf, P., Vergani, S. D. & Xu, D., 1 Oct 2015, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 582, A78.

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  18. Published

    CONNECTING GRBs AND ULIRGs: A SENSITIVE, UNBIASED SURVEY FOR RADIO EMISSION FROM GAMMA-RAY BURST HOST GALAXIES AT 0 < z < 2.5

    Perley, D. A., Perley, R. A., Hjorth, Jens, Michalowski, M. J., Cenko, S. B., Jakobsson, P., Krueher, T., Levan, A. J., Malesani, Daniele Bjørn & Tanvir, N. R., 10 Mar 2015, In: Astrophysical Journal. 801, 2, 102.

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  19. Published

    ILLUMINATING A DARK LENS: A TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA MAGNIFIED BY THE FRONTIER FIELDS GALAXY CLUSTER ABELL 2744

    Rodney, S. A., Patel, B., Scolnic, D., Foley, R. J., Molino, A., Brammer, G., Jauzac, M., Bradac, M., Broadhurst, T., Coe, D., Diego, J. M., Graur, O., Hjorth, J., Hoag, A., Jha, S. W., Johnson, T. L., Kelly, P., Lam, D., McCully, C., Medezinski, E. & 10 others, Meneghetti, M., Merten, J., Richard, J., Riess, A., Sharon, K., Strolger, L., Treu, T., Wang, X., Williams, L. L. R. & Zitrin, A., 20 Sep 2015, In: Astrophysical Journal. 811, 1, 70.

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  20. Published

    THE OPTICALLY UNBIASED GRB HOST (TOUGH) SURVEY. VII. THE HOST GALAXY LUMINOSITY FUNCTION: PROBING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GRBs AND STAR FORMATION TO REDSHIFT similar to 6

    Schulze, S., Chapman, R., Hjorth, Jens, Levan, A. J., Jakobsson, P., Bjoernsson, G., Perley, D. A., Kruehler, T., Gorosabel, J., Tanvir, N. R., Postigo, A. D. U., Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Milvang-Jensen, B., Moller, P. & Watson, Darach Jafar, 20 Jul 2015, In: Astrophysical Journal. 808, 1, 73.

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  21. Published

    Denmark: Women's grants lost in inequality ocean

    Watson, Darach Jafar & Hjorth, Jens, 12 Mar 2015, In: Nature. 519, 7542, p. 158-158

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  22. 2016
  23. Published

    SUPPLEMENT: LOCALIZATION AND BROADBAND FOLLOW-UP OF THE GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE TRANSIENT GW150914, (2016, ApJL, 826, L13)

    Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acemese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Adya, V. B., Hjorth, Jens, Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Malesani, Daniele Bjørn, Milvang-Jensen, B. & Watson, Darach Jafar, 1 Jul 2016, In: Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 225, 1, 8.

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  24. Published

    THE AFTERGLOW AND EARLY-TYPE HOST GALAXY OF THE SHORT GRB 150101B AT z=0.1343

    Fong, W., Margutti, R., Chornock, R., Berger, E., Shappee, B. J., Levan, A. J., Tanvir, N. R., Smith, N., Milne, P. A., Laskar, T., Fox, D. B., Lunnan, R., Blanchard, P. K., Hjorth, Jens, Wiersema, K., van der Horst, A. J. & Zaritsky, D., 20 Dec 2016, In: Astrophysical Journal. 833, 2

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  25. Published

    DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN: THE REAPPEARANCE OF SUPERNOVA REFSDAL

    Kelly, P. L., Rodney, S. A., Treu, T., Strolger, L-G., Foley, R. J., Jha, S. W., Selsing, J., Brammer, G., Bradac, M., Cenko, S. B., Graur, O., Filippenko, A. V., Hjorth, J., McCully, C., Molino, A., Nonino, M., Riess, A. G., Schmidt, K. B., Tucker, B. A., von der Linden, A. & 2 others, Weiner, B. J. & Zitrin, A., 1 Mar 2016, In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 819, 1, L8.

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  26. Published

    SN Refsdal: Classification as a Luminous and Blue SN 1987A-like Type II Supernova

    Kelly, P. L., Brammer, G., Selsing, J., Foley, R. J., Hjorth, J., Rodney, S. A., Christensen, L. B., Strolger, L. -G., Filippenko, A. V., Treu, T., Steidel, C. C., Strom, A., Riess, A. G., Zitrin, A., Schmidt, K. B., Bradac, M., Jha, S. W., Graham, M. L., McCully, C., Graur, O. & 2 others, Weiner, B. J. & Silverman, J. M., 10 Nov 2016, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 831, 205.

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  27. Published

    DETECTION OF THREE GAMMA-RAY BURST HOST GALAXIES AT z ~ 6

    McGuire, J. T. W., Tanvir, N. R., Levan, A. J., Trenti, M., Stanway, E. R., Shull, J. M., Wiersema, K., Starling, R. L. C., Hjorth, Jens, Bremer, M., Stocke, J. T., Perley, D. A., Rhoads, J. E., Curtis-Lake, E., Schulze, S., Levesque, E. M., Robertson, B., Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Ellis, R. S. & Fruchter, A. S., 12 Jun 2016, In: Astrophysical Journal. 825, 2, 135.

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  28. Published

    GRB 980425 host: [C II], [O I], and CO lines reveal recent enhancement of star formation due to atomic gas inflow

    Michalowski, M. J., Castro Ceron, J. M., Wardlow, J. L., Karska, A., Messias, H., van der Werf, P., Hunt, L. K., Baes, M., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Gentile, G., Hjorth, J., Le Floc'h, E., Perez-Martinez, R., Guelbenzu, A. N., Rasmussen, J., Rizzo, J. R., Rossi, A., Sanchez-Portal, M., Schady, P., Sollerman, J. & 1 others, Xu, D., 4 Nov 2016, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 595, A72.

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