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Klaas Wiersema

Dr Klaas Wiersema

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9133-7957
20162026

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Klaas Wiersema is a Dutch astrophysicist, specialised in the observational study of transient sources, in particular sources that emit time-variable polarised light. He has published many papers in refereed journals on topics ranging from gravitational wave sources to orbiting satellites, and has been active in building, commissioning and calibrating several astronomical instruments and observatories. Before coming to the University of Hertfordshire, Klaas worked at the University of Lancaster, University of Warwick, University of Leicester and the University of Amsterdam. 

Research interests

  • Classification and characterisation of astrophysical transient sources
  • Polarimetry as probe of non-thermal emission processes in transient sources
  • The electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave and neutrino sources (i.e. multi-messenger astronomy)
  • Using spectroscopy of transients to probe high-redshift galaxy properties and cosmology
  • Polarimetry as a quantitative tool in Space Domain Awareness (SDA)
  • Bubbles blown by the jets and accretion disks of X-ray binaries
  • Polarimetric properties of potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs)

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  • SN 2024aecx: A Fast-evolving Type IIb Supernova with a Prominent Shock-cooling Peak

    Xi, Q., Sun, N.-C., Aguado, D., Pérez-Fournon, I., Poidevin, F., Jin, J., Mao, Y., Niu, Z., Wang, B., Zhang, Y., Misra, K., Janghel, D., Maund, J. R., Kumar, A., Tinyanont, S., Liu, L.-D., Zhang, Y.-H., Ailawadhi, B., Dubey, M. & Guo, Z. & 19 others, Gupta, A., He, M., Jain, D., Kar, D., Li, W., Lyman, J. D., Mu, H., Pranshu, K., Sun, X., Wang, L., Yadav, S. K., Zhao, Y.-H., Zheng, J., Zhu, Y., Fernández-Nespral, D. L., López Oramas, A., Wang, Y., Wiersema, K. & Liu, J., 10 Feb 2026, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 998, 1, 17 p., 98.

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  • SN 2025coe: A Multiple-peaked Calcium-strong Transient from a White-dwarf Progenitor

    Chen, C., Sun, N.-C., Xi, Q., Tinyanont, S., Aguado, D., Pérez-Fournon, I., Poidevin, F., Maund, J. R., Kumar, A., Jin, J., Mao, Y., Wang, B., Zhang, Y., Guo, Z., Li, W., Rojas-Bravo, C., Shen, R.-F., Wang, L., Wang, Z. & Zhao, G. & 8 others, Zheng, J., Zhu, Y., Fernández-Nespral, D. L., López-Oramas, A., Niu, Z., Wang, Y., Wiersema, K. & Liu, J., 20 Jan 2026, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 997, 1, 10 p., 72.

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  • Discovery and analysis of afterglows from poorly localized GRBs with the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) All-sky Survey

    Kumar, A., Gompertz, B. P., Schneider, B., Belkin, S., Wortley, M. E., Saccardi, A., O’Neill, D., Ackley, K., Rayson, B., Postigo, A. D. U., Gulati, A., Steeghs, D., Malesani, D. B., Maund, J. R., Dyer, M. J., Giarratana, S., Serino, M., Julakanti, Y., Kumar, B. & Xu, D. & 69 others, Eyles-Ferris, R. A. J., Zhu, Z.-P., Warwick, B., Hu, Y.-D., Allen, I., Ramsay, G., Starling, R. L. C., Lyman, J., Ulaczyk, K., Godson, B., Galloway, D. K., Dhillon, V. S., O’Brien, P., Noysena, K., Kotak, R., Breton, R. P., Nuttall, L. K., Pollacco, D., Casares, J., Killestein, T. L., Kennedy, M. R., Habeeb, N., Moran, S., Wiersema, K., Worssam, I., Coppejans, D. L., Phillips, C. A., Martin-Carrillo, A., Pankov, N. S., Fernández, J. F. A., Aloy, M. A., An, J., Anderson, G. E., Bochenek, A., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Chen, X., Cotter, L., Dastidar, R., De Pasquale, M., D’Elia, V., Fang, Y., Fu, S. Y., Fynbo, J. P. U., Hartmann, D. H., He, L. B., Izzo, L., Jiang, S. Q., Kawakubo, Y., Klunko, E. V., Levan, A. J., Liu, X.-W., Liu, X., Lombardi, G., Maiorano, E., Palmerio, J. T., Perley, D. A., Pieterse, D. L. A., Pozanenko, A. S., Pugliese, G., Rossi, A., Sbarufatti, B., Seshashayana, S. B., Tanvir, N. R., Thöne, C. C., van der Horst, A. J., Vergani, S. D., Volnova, A. A., Wijers, R. A. M. J. & Wise, J. L., 31 Dec 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544, 2, p. 1541-1587 47 p.

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  • GRB 241105A: a test case for GRB classification and rapid r -process nucleosynthesis channels

    Dimple, Gompertz, B. P., Levan, A. J., Malesani, D. B., Laskar, T., Bala, S., Chrimes, A. A., Heintz, K., Izzo, L., Lamb, G. P., O’Neill, D., Palmerio, J. T., Saccardi, A., Anderson, G. E., De Barra, C., Huang, Y., Kumar, A., Li, H., McBreen, S. & Mukherjee, O. & 68 others, Oates, S. R., Pathak, U., Qiu, Y., Roberts, O. J., Sonawane, R., Veres, P., Ackley, K., Han, X., Julakanti, Y., Wang, J., D’Avanzo, P., Martin-Carrillo, A., Ravasio, M. E., Rossi, A., Tanvir, N. R., Anderson, J. P., Arabsalmani, M., Belkin, S., Breton, R. P., Brivio, R., Burns, E., Casares, J., Campana, S., Chastain, S. I., D’Elia, V., Dhillon, V. S., Dyer, M. J., Fynbo, J. P. U., Galloway, D. K., Gulati, A., Godson, B., Goodwin, A. J., Gromadzki, M., Hartmann, D. H., Jakobsson, P., Killestein, T. L., Kotak, R., Leung, J. K., Lyman, J. D., Melandri, A., Mattila, S., McGee, S., Morley, C., Mukherjee, T., Müller-Bravo, T. E., Noysena, K., Nuttall, L. K., O’Brien, P., De Pasquale, M., Pignata, G., Pollacco, D., Pugliese, G., Ramsay, G., Sahu, A., Salvaterra, R., Schady, P., Schneider, B., Steeghs, D., Starling, R. L. C., Tsalapatas, K., Ulaczyk, K., van der Horst, A. J., Wang, C., Wiersema, K., Worssam, I., Wortley, M. E., Xiong, S. & Zafar, T., 30 Nov 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544, 1, p. 548-571 24 p.

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  • A LOFAR search for coherent radio emission accompanying prompt engine activity in gamma-ray bursts

    Hennessy, A., Starling, R. L. C., Rowlinson, A., de Ruiter, I., van der Horst, A. J., Anderson, G. E., Tanvir, N. R., ter Veen, S., Wiersema, K. & Wijers, R. A. M. J., 26 Sept 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544, 1, p. 53-66 14 p.

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