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University of Copenhagen: Copenhagen, DK

2015-11-01 to present | Lektor (Niels Bohr Institute)
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Darach Watson

University of Copenhagen: Copenhagen, DK

2005-03-01 to 2015-10-31 | Forskningslektor (Niels Bohr Institute)
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Darach Watson

University of Copenhagen: Copenhagen, DK

2003-02-01 to 2005-02-28 | Adjunkt (Niels Bohr Institute)
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Darach Watson

University of Leicester: Leicester, Leicester, GB

2001-02-01 to 2003-01-31 | Postdoc (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
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Darach Watson

University College Dublin: Dublin, IE

2000 to 2001 | Postdoc (Department of Experimental Physics)
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Darach Watson

Education and qualifications (2)

University College Dublin: Dublin, IE

1996 to 2000 | PhD (Experimental Physics)
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Darach Watson

University College Dublin: Dublin, IE

1992 to 1996 | BSc (Department of Experimental Physics)
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Darach Watson

Funding (1)

The First Generations of Galaxies

2017-01-01 to 2017-12-31 | Grant
Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education (Odense, DK)
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Darach Watson via DimensionsWizard

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Helium features are inconsistent with the spectral evolution of the kilonova AT2017gfo

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Albert Sneppen; Rasmus Damgaard; Darach Watson; Christine E. Collins; Luke Shingles; Stuart A. Sim
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Deciphering the JWST spectrum of a ‘little red dot’ at z ∼ 4.53: An obscured AGN and its star-forming host

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Meghana Killi; Darach Watson; Gabriel Brammer; Conor McPartland; Jacqueline Antwi-Danso; Rosa Newshore; Dan Coe; Natalie Allen; Johan P. U. Fynbo; Katriona Gould et al.
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Emergence hour-by-hour of r-process features in the kilonova AT2017gfo

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Albert Sneppen; Darach Watson; Rasmus Damgaard; Kasper E. Heintz; Nicholas Vieira; Petri Väisänen; Antoine Mahoro
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Uncovering the physical origin of the prominent Lyman-α emission and absorption in GS9422 at z = 5.943

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Chamilla Terp; Kasper E. Heintz; Darach Watson; Gabriel Brammer; Adam Carnall; Joris Witstok; Renske Smit; Simone Vejlgaard
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Rapid kilonova evolution: Recombination and reverberation effects

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Albert Sneppen; Darach Watson; James H. Gillanders; Kasper E. Heintz
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Strong damped Lyman-α absorption in young star-forming galaxies at redshifts 9 to 11

Science
2024-05-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Kasper E. Heintz; Darach Watson; Gabriel Brammer; Simone Vejlgaard; Anne Hutter; Victoria B. Strait; Jorryt Matthee; Pascal A. Oesch; Páll Jakobsson; Nial R. Tanvir et al.
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Dust depletion of metals from local to distant galaxies

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2024-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Christina Konstantopoulou; Annalisa De Cia; Cédric Ledoux; Jens-Kristian Krogager; Lars Mattsson; Darach Watson; Kasper E. Heintz; Céline Péroux; Pasquier Noterdaeme; Anja C. Andersen et al.
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Measuring the Hubble constant with kilonovae using the expanding photosphere method

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2023-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Albert Sneppen; Darach Watson; Dovi Poznanski; Oliver Just; Andreas Bauswein; Radosław Wojtak
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Dilution of chemical enrichment in galaxies 600 Myr after the Big Bang

Nature Astronomy
2023-09-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Kasper E. Heintz; Gabriel B. Brammer; Clara Giménez-Arteaga; Victoria B. Strait; Claudia del P. Lagos; Aswin P. Vijayan; Jorryt Matthee; Darach Watson; Charlotte A. Mason; Anne Hutter et al.
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Discovery of a 760 nm P Cygni line in AT2017gfo: Identification of yttrium in the kilonova photosphere

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2023-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Albert Sneppen; Darach Watson
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Spherical symmetry in the kilonova AT2017gfo/GW170817

Nature
2023-02-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Albert Sneppen; Darach Watson; Andreas Bauswein; Oliver Just; Rubina Kotak; Ehud Nakar; Dovi Poznanski; Stuart Sim
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Investigating the [C ii]-to-H i Conversion Factor and the H i Gas Budget of Galaxies at z ≈ 6 with Hydrodynamic Simulations

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2022-11-01 | Journal article
Contributors: David Vizgan; Kasper E. Heintz; Thomas R. Greve; Desika Narayanan; Romeel Davé; Karen P. Olsen; Gergö Popping; Darach Watson
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ALMA Reveals Extended Cool Gas and Hot Ionized Outflows in a Typical Star-forming Galaxy at Z = 7.13

The Astrophysical Journal
2022-07-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Hollis B. Akins; Seiji Fujimoto; Kristian Finlator; Darach Watson; Kirsten K. Knudsen; Johan Richard; Tom J. L. C. Bakx; Takuya Hashimoto; Akio K. Inoue; Hiroshi Matsuo et al.
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A dusty compact object bridging galaxies and quasars at cosmic dawn

Nature
2022-04-14 | Journal article
Contributors: S. Fujimoto; G. B. Brammer; D. Watson; G. E. Magdis; V. Kokorev; T. R. Greve; S. Toft; F. Walter; R. Valiante; M. Ginolfi et al.
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The Archival Discovery of a Strong Lyα and [C ii] Emitter at z = 7.677

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2022-04-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Francesco Valentino; Gabriel Brammer; Seiji Fujimoto; Kasper E. Heintz; John R. Weaver; Victoria Strait; Katriona M. L. Gould; Charlotte Mason; Darach Watson; Peter Laursen et al.
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Measuring the H i Content of Individual Galaxies Out to the Epoch of Reionization with [C ii]

The Astrophysical Journal
2021-12-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Kasper E. Heintz; Darach Watson; Pascal A. Oesch; Desika Narayanan; Suzanne C. Madden
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An Unambiguous Separation of Gamma-Ray Bursts into Two Classes from Prompt Emission Alone

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2020-06-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Christian K. Jespersen; Johann B. Severin; Charles L. Steinhardt; Jonas Vinther; Johan P. U. Fynbo; Jonatan Selsing; Darach Watson
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Direct Measurement of the [C i] Luminosity to Molecular Gas Mass Conversion Factor in High-redshift Star-forming Galaxies

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2020-01-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Kasper E. Heintz; Darach Watson
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The luminous, massive and solar metallicity galaxy hosting the Swift γ-ray burst GRB 160804A at z = 0.737

2018-02 | Journal article
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25451610

Contributors: Heintz, K. E.; Malesani, D.; Wiersema, K.; Jakobsson, P.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Savaglio, S.; Cano, Z.; Covino, S.; D'Elia, V.; Gomboc, A. et al.
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The optical afterglow of the short gamma-ray burst associated with GW170817

2018-01 | Journal article
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25464016

Contributors: Lyman, J. D.; Lamb, G. P.; Levan, A. J.; Mandel, I.; Tanvir, N. R.; Kobayashi, S.; Gompertz, B.; Hjorth, J.; Fruchter, A. S.; Kangas, T. et al.
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ALMA and GMRT Constraints on the Off-axis Gamma-Ray Burst 170817A from the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

ApJL
2017-12 | Journal article
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Darach Watson

A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

Nature
2017-11 | Journal article
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Darach Watson

Spectroscopic identification of r-process nucleosynthesis in a double neutron-star merger

Nature
2017-11 | Journal article
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Darach Watson

Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2017-10 | Journal article
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Darach Watson

The Emergence of a Lanthanide-rich Kilonova Following the Merger of Two Neutron Stars

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2017-10 | Journal article
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Darach Watson
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The Environment of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2017-10 | Journal article
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Darach Watson
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The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS)

2017-10 | Journal article
OTHER-ID:

25455301

Contributors: Amati, L.; O'Brien, P.; Goetz, D.; Tenzer, C.; Bozzo, E.
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FIGS—Faint Infrared Grism Survey: Description and Data Reduction

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2017-09 | Journal article
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Darach Watson

The host galaxy of the short GRB111117A at $z = 2.211$: impact on the short GRB redshift distribution and progenitor channels

2017-07 | Journal article
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25318664

Contributors: Selsing, J.; Krühler, T.; Malesani, D.; D'Avanzo, P.; Schulze, S.; Palmerio, J.; Vergani, S. D.; Japelj, J.; Milvang-Jensen, B.; Watson, D. et al.
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Steep extinction towards GRB 140506A reconciled from host galaxy observations: Evidence that steep reddening laws are local

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2017-05 | Journal article
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Darach Watson
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A merger in the dusty, z = 7.5 galaxy A1689-zD1?

2017-04 | Journal article
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14945357

Contributors: Knudsen, Kirsten K.; Watson, Darach; Frayer, David; Christensen, Lise; Gallazzi, Anna; Michałowski, Michał J.; Richard, Johan; Zavala, Jesús
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VizieR Online Data Catalog: GRB 140506A X-shooter spectra (Heintz+, 2017)

2017-04 | Journal article
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14956966

Contributors: Heintz, K. E.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Jakobsson, P.; Kruehler, T.; Christensen, L.; Perley, D. A.; Ledoux, C.; Noterdaeme, P.; Watson, D.; Selsing, J. et al.
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The properties of GRB 120923A at a spectroscopic redshift of z=7.8

2017-03 | Journal article
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25292484

Contributors: Tanvir, N. R.; Laskar, T.; Levan, A. J.; Perley, D. A.; Zabl, J.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Rhoads, J.; Cenko, S. B.; Greiner, J.; Wiersema, K. et al.
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Cosmology with AGN dust time lags-simulating the new VEILS survey

2017-01 | Journal article
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14944995

Contributors: Hönig, S. F.; Watson, D.; Kishimoto, M.; Gandhi, P.; Goad, M.; Horne, K.; Shankar, F.; Banerji, M.; Boulderstone, B.; Jarvis, M. et al.
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The Future of Multi-Object Spectroscopy: a ESO Working Group Report

2017-01 | Journal article
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25275427

Contributors: Ellis, Richard S.; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; Bremer, Malcolm; Brinchmann, Jarle; Guzzo, Luigi; Richard, Johan; Rix, Hans-Walter; Tolstoy, Eline; Watson, Darach
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GRB 160314A: VLT/X-shooter redshift.

GRB Coordinates Network Circular
2016 | Report
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Darach Watson

Inflow of atomic gas fuelling star formation

IAU Focus Meeting
2016 | Conference paper
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Darach Watson

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

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2016-07 | Journal article
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Darach Watson

Supplement: “Localization and Broadband Follow-up of the Gravitational-wave Transient GW150914” (2016, ApJL, 826, L13)

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
2016-07 | Journal article
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Darach Watson

GRB 150423A: VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy and tentative redshift.

2015 | Journal article
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11010228

Contributors: Malesani, D.; Kruehler, T.; Xu, D.; Pugliese, G.; Watson, D.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Milvang-Jensen, B.; de Ugarte Postigo, A.; Tanvir, N. R.; D'Elia, V. et al.
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GRB 150424A: NOT optical observations.

2015 | Journal article
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11010256

Contributors: Malesani, D.; Xu, D.; Watson, D. J.; Blay, P.
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Extinction curve template for intrinsically reddened quasars

2015-12 | Journal article
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2015A&A...584A.100Z

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11247726

Contributors: Zafar, T.; Møller, P.; Watson, D.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Krogager, J. -K.; Zafar, N.; Saturni, F. G.; Geier, S.; Venemans, B. P.
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The EChO science case

2015-12 | Journal article
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11248151

Contributors: Tinetti, Giovanna; Drossart, Pierre; Eccleston, Paul; Hartogh, Paul; Isaak, Kate; Linder, Martin; Lovis, Christophe; Micela, Giusi; Ollivier, Marc; Puig, Ludovic et al.
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Massive stars formed in atomic hydrogen reservoirs: H I observations of gamma-ray burst host galaxies

2015-10 | Journal article
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2015A&A...582A..78M

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11146106

Contributors: Michałowski, M. J.; Gentile, G.; Hjorth, J.; Krumholz, M. R.; Tanvir, N. R.; Kamphuis, P.; Burlon, D.; Baes, M.; Basa, S.; Berta, S. et al.
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Simulations of the OzDES AGN reverberation mapping project

2015-10 | Journal article
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10861794

Contributors: King, Anthea L.; Martini, Paul; Davis, Tamara M.; Denney, K. D.; Kochanek, C. S.; Peterson, Bradley M.; Skielboe, Andreas; Vestergaard, Marianne; Huff, Eric; Watson, Darach et al.
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ANTARES neutrino detection: Optical/NIR spectroscopy of the Swift/XRT counterpart candidate from NOT

2015-09 | Journal article
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11118735

Contributors: Postigo, A. de Ugarte; Korhonen, H.; Andersen, M. I.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Schulze, S.; Cano, Z.; Xu, D.; Tanvir, N. R.; Watson, D.; Malesani, D. et al.
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GRB hosts through cosmic time. VLT/X-Shooter emission-line spectroscopy of 96 γ-ray-burst-selected galaxies at 0.1 〈z 〈 3.6

2015-09 | Journal article
BIBCODE:

2015A&A...581A.125K

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11137316

Contributors: Krühler, T.; Malesani, D.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Hartoog, O. E.; Hjorth, J.; Jakobsson, P.; Perley, D. A.; Rossi, A.; Schady, P.; Schulze, S. et al.
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Spectrophotometric analysis of gamma-ray burst afterglow extinction curves with X-Shooter

2015-07 | Journal article
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2015A&A...579A..74J

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11006563

Contributors: Japelj, J.; Covino, S.; Gomboc, A.; Vergani, S. D.; Goldoni, P.; Selsing, J.; Cano, Z.; D'Elia, V.; Flores, H.; Fynbo, J. P. U. et al.
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The Optically Unbiased GRB Host (TOUGH) Survey. VII. The Host Galaxy Luminosity Function: Probing the Relationship between GRBs and Star Formation to Redshift ∼ 6

2015-07 | Journal article
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11054277

Contributors: Schulze, S.; Chapman, R.; Hjorth, J.; Levan, A. J.; Jakobsson, P.; Björnsson, G.; Perley, D. A.; Krühler, T.; Gorosabel, J.; Tanvir, N. R. et al.
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The warm, the excited, and the molecular gas: GRB 121024A shining through its star-forming galaxy

2015-07 | Journal article
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11005275

Contributors: Friis, M.; De Cia, A.; Krühler, T.; Fynbo, J. P. U.; Ledoux, C.; Vreeswijk, P. M.; Watson, D. J.; Malesani, D.; Gorosabel, J.; Starling, R. L. C. et al.
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