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I am an Associate Professor in the Astronomy & Astrophysics group in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick.
Primary Research Interests:
My principle research interests focus on gamma-ray bursts and supenovae. As the brightest explosions in the Universe by far, gamma-ray bursts can be seen at all distances, and make powerful cosmological probes. My research into GRBs has two broad avenues. The first is to understand the progenitor systems for these extraordinary explosions, the second is to subsequently deploy them as probes of the universe across cosmic time. GRBs are now mainly found by the Swift satellite, while followup programme utilise the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope, as well as numerous large ground based facilities (e.g. VLT, Gemini, WHT).
Selected recent publications:
Late time observations of GRB 080319B: jet break, host galaxy and accompanying supernova
N.R. Tanvir, E. Rol, A.J. Levan et al. 2008, ApJ, submitted
SCP 06F6: A carbon rich transient at redshift 0.14
B. Gaensicke, A. Levan, T. Marsh, P. Wheatley . 2008, ApJ, submitted
Broandband observations of the naked eye gamma-ray burst 080319B
Racusin, J.L. et al. 2008 Nature, 455 183
New Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the counterparts to six ultraluminous X-ray sources
T.P. Roberts, A.J. Levan, M.R. Goad, MNRAS 387 73
The extreme red afterglow of GRB 060923A: Distance or Dust?
N.R. Tanvir, A.J. Levan, E. Rol, R. Starling, J. Gorosabel, R. S. Priddey, D. Maelsani, P. Jakobsson, P. O'Brien, A. Jaunsen, J. Hjorth, J. Fynbo, A. Melandri, A. Gomboc, B. Milvang Jensen, A. Fruchter, M. Jarvis, C.A. Fernandes, T. Wold, MNRAS, in press
The `DODO' survey - I. Limits on ultra-cool substellar and planetary-mass companions to van Maanen's star (vMa2)
M.R. Burleigh, F. Clarke, E. Hogan, C. Brinkworth, P. Bergeron, P. Darfur, P. Dobbie, A.J. Levan, S. Hodgkin, D. Hoard, S. Wachter, 2008, MNRAS 386 5
On the nature of the short duration GRB 050906
A.J. Levan, N.R. Tanvir, P. Jakobsson, R. Chapman, J. Hjorth, R.S. Priddey, J.P.U. Fynbo, K. Hurley, B.L. Jensen, R. Johnson, J. Gorosabel, A.J. Castro-Tirado, M.J. Jarvis, D. Watson, K. Wiersema, MNRAS, in press
A case of mistaken identify? GRB 060912 and the nature of the long short GRB divide
A.J. Levan, P. Jakobsson, C. Hurkett, N.R. Tanvir, J. Gorosabel, P. Vreeswijk, E. Rol, R. Chapman, N. Gehrels, P.T. O'Brien, J. P. Osborne, R.S. Priddey, C. Kouveliotou, R. Starling, D. Vanden Berk, K. Wiersema, MNRAS, in press
Progenitors of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts
Melvyn B. Davies, Andrew J. Levan, Josefin Larsson, Andrew R. King, Andrew S. Fruchter
A new constraint on gamma-ray burst progenitor mass
Josefin Larsson, Andrew Levan, Melvyn Davies and Andrew Fruchter, MNRAS, 376 1285
Neutron star binaries and long duration gamma-ray bursts
Andrew Levan, Melvyn Davies and Andrew King 2006, MNRAS, 372 1351
The faint afterglow and host galaxy of the short-hard GRB 060121
A.J. Levan, N.R. Tanvir, A.S. Fruchter, E. Rol, J.P.U. Fynbo, J. Hjorth, G. Williams, E. Bergeron, D. Bersier, M. Bremer, T. Grav, P. Jakobsson, K. Nilsson, E. Olszewski, R.S. Priddey, D. Rafferty, J. Rhoads, 2006, ApJ Letters 648 9
An optical supernova associated with the X-ray Flash 060218
E. Pian, P. Mazzali, N. Masetti, P. Ferrero, S. Klose, E. Palazzi, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, S. Woosley, C. Kouveliotou, J. Deng, A. Filippenkp, R. Foley, J. Fynbo, D. Kann, W. Li, J. Hjorth, K. Nomoto, F. Patat, D. Sauer, J. Sollerman, P.M. Vreeswijk, E. Guenther, A. Levan, P. O'Brien, N. Tanvir, R. Wijers, C. Dumas, O. Hainaut, D.S. Wong, D. Baade, L. Wang, L. Amati, E. Cappellaro, A. Castro-Tirado S. Ellison, F. Frontera, A. Fruchter, J. Greiner, K. Kawabata, C. Ledoux, K. Maeda, P. Moller, L. Nicastro, E. Rol, R. Starling, 2006 Nature 442 1011
The First Swift X-ray Flash: The Faint Afterglow of XRF 050215B
A.J. Levan, J.P. Osborne, N.R. Tanvir, K.L. Page, E. Rol, B. Zhang, M.R. Goad, P.T. O'Brien, R.S. Priddey, D. Bersier, D.N. Burrows, R. Chapman, A.S. Fruchter, P. Giommi, N. Gehrels, M.A. Hughes, S. Pak, C. Simpson, G. Tagliaferri, E. Vadoulaki, 2006 ApJ 648 1132
Infrared and Optical Observations of GRB 030115 and its Extremely Red Host galaxy: Implications for Dark Bursts
Andrew Levan, Andrew Fruchter, James Rhoads, Bahram Mobasher, Nial Tanvir, Javier Gorosabel, Evert Rol, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Ian Dell'Antonio, Michael Merrill, Eddie Bergeron, Jose Maria Castro Ceron, Nicola Masetti, Paul Vreeswijk, Angelo Antonelli, David Bersier, Alberto Castro-Tirado, Johan Fynbo, Peter Garnavich, Stephen Holland, Jens Hjorth, Peter Nugent, Elena Pian, Alain Smette, Bjarne Thomsen, Stephen Thorsett, Ralph Wijers 2006 ApJ 647 471
Long gamma-ray bursts and core collapse supernovae have different environments
A.S. Fruchter, A.J. Levan, L. Strolger, P.M. Vreeswijk, S. Thorsett, D. Bersier, I. Burud, J.M. Castro Ceron, A.J. Castro Tirado, C. Conselice, T. Dahlen, H. Ferguson, J. Fynbo, P.M. Garnavich, R. Gibbons, J. Gorosabel, T. Gull, J. Hjorth S. Holland, C. Kouveliotou, Z. Levay, M. Livio, M. Metzger, P. Nugent, L. Petro, E. Pian J. Rhoads, A. Riess, K. Sahu, A. Smette, N. Tanvir, R. Wijers, S. Woosley 2006 Nature 441 463
Short gamma-ray bursts in old populations: magnetars from white dwarf -- white dwarf mergers
Andrew Levan, Graham Wynn, Robert Chapman, Melvyn Davies, Andrew King, Robert Priddey, Nial Tanvir 2006 MNRAS 368 L1
All other publications via ADS
Press releases:
Earth safe from gamma-ray bursts - Royal Astronomical Society
Death of a star - PPARC
Swift detects most distant gamma-ray burst - PPARC
High redshift gamma-ray bursts - NASA
