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  1. Localization and host galaxy identification of new fast radio bursts with MeerKAT

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, December 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  2. Searching for long-period radio transients in ASKAP EMU data with 10-s imaging

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, November 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  3. RadioSED – II. Discovering the peaked spectrum radio sources in Stripe 82

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, September 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  4. A machine-learning empowered search for sub-minute optical transient events with the Deeper, Wider, Faster programme

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, September 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  5. ASKAP J144834−685644: a newly discovered long period radio transient detected from radio to X-rays

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, July 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  6. Slow and steady: long-term evolution of the 76-s pulsar J0901−4046

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, May 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  7. Detection of X-ray emission from a bright long-period radio transient

    Article • Nature, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  8. Contemporaneous optical-radio observations of a fast radio burst in a close galaxy pair

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, February 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  9. Discovery of 26 new Galactic radio transients by MeerTRAP

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, January 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  10. The emission of interpulses by a 6.45-h-period coherent radio transient

    Article • Nature Astronomy, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  11. Discovery of Main-sequence Radio Pulse emitters from widefield sky surveys

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  12. The distribution of atomic hydrogen in the host galaxies of FRBs

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  13. VAST-MeMeS: Characterising non-thermal radio emission from magnetic massive stars using the Australian SKA Pathfinder

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  14. A two-minute burst of highly polarized radio emission originating from low Galactic latitude

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, October 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  15. Late-time supernovae radio re-brightening in the VAST pilot survey

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, October 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  16. Radio Afterglows from Tidal Disruption Events: An Unbiased Sample from ASKAP RACS

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, October 2024, American Astronomical Society

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  17. An Untargeted Search for Radio-emitting Tidal Disruption Events in the VAST Pilot Survey

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, September 2024, American Astronomical Society

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  18. A study of two FRBs with low polarization fractions localized with the MeerTRAP transient buffer system

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, July 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  19. The Sydney Radio Star Catalogue: Properties of radio stars at megahertz to gigahertz frequencies

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  20. FRB 20210405I: a nearby Fast Radio Burst localized to sub-arcsecond precision with MeerKAT

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, November 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  21. FRB 20121102A: images of the bursts and the varying radio counterpart

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, August 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  22. A sample of fast radio bursts discovered and localized with MeerTRAP at the MeerKAT telescope

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, July 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  23. Periodic Radio Emission from the T8 Dwarf WISE J062309.94–045624.6

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal Letters, July 2023, American Astronomical Society

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  24. Discovery of an extremely intermittent periodic radio source

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, June 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  25. A subarcsec localized fast radio burst with a significant host galaxy dispersion measure contribution

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, June 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. James Okwe Chibueze, Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  26. Radio variable and transient sources on minute time-scales in the ASKAP pilot surveys

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, June 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  27. Bursts from Space: MeerKAT – the first citizen science project dedicated to commensal radio transients

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, May 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  28. Detection of radio emission from stars via proper-motion searches

    Article • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  29. Search and identification of transient and variable radio sources using MeerKAT observations: a case study on the MAXI J1820+070 field

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, September 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  30. A MeerKAT, e-MERLIN, H.E.S.S., and Swift search for persistent and transient emission associated with three localized FRBs

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, June 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. James Okwe Chibueze, Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  31. Discovery of a radio-emitting neutron star with an ultra-long spin period of 76 s

    Article • Nature Astronomy, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  32. First discoveries and localizations of Fast Radio Bursts with MeerTRAP: real-time, commensal MeerKAT survey

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, May 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  33. Serendipitous discovery of radio flaring behaviour from a nearby M dwarf with MeerKAT

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, April 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  34. 21 new long-term variables in the GX 339−4 field: two years of MeerKAT monitoring

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, March 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  35. MeerTRAP: 12 Galactic fast transients detected in a real-time, commensal MeerKAT survey

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, March 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  36. Completing the X-ray view of the recently discovered supernova remnant G53.41+0.03

    Article • EAS Publications Series, March 2022, EDP Sciences

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  37. The detection of radio emission from known X-ray flaring star EXO 040830−7134.7

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, December 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  38. MEERTRAP: Finding fast radio transients on the fly

    Article • August 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  39. Multifrequency observations of SGR J1935+2154

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, March 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  40. MeerTRAP in the era of multi-messenger astrophysics

    Article • December 2020, SPIE

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  41. A new era of radio transients

    Article • Astronomy & Geophysics, October 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  42. Simultaneous multi-telescope observations of FRB 121102

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, June 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  43. MKT J170456.2–482100: the first transient discovered by MeerKAT

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, October 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  44. Scattering features and variability of the Crab pulsar

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, November 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  45. Investigating Galactic Supernova Remnant Candidates Using LOFAR

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, June 2018, American Astronomical Society

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  46. Low-frequency pulse profile variation in PSR B2217+47: evidence for echoes from the interstellar medium

    Article • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, February 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  47. Fast Radio Transients: From Pulsars to Fast Radio Bursts

    Article • Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, November 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  48. MeerTRAP: A pulsar and fast transients survey with MeerKAT

    Article • Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, September 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Sotiris Sanidas, Ms Laura Nicole Driessen

  49. Evolution of the low-frequency pulse profile of PSR B2217+47

    Article • Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, September 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Ms Laura Nicole Driessen