Publications by Derek McLeod

The JWST EXCELS survey: Outflows in 1.5 < z < 5 quiescent and recently quenched galaxies are likely relics from episodic AGN activity DOI
Elizabeth Taylor, Adam C. Carnall, David Maltby, Omar Almaini, Ho-Hin Leung, Struan D. Stevenson, Andrea Negri, Fergus Cullen, Vivienne Wild, Ross J. McLure, Alice E. Shapley, Karla Z. Arellano-Cordova, Ryan Begley, Cecilia Bondestam, James S. Dunlop, Derek J. McLeod, Dirk Scholte et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 549, 3, p. 1-23 (2026)
The multiwavelength structure of post-starburst galaxies at 0.5 < z < 3 with JWST PRIMER: compact morphologies and residual disturbances DOI
David T. Maltby, Omar Almaini, Vivienne Wild, Elizabeth Taylor, Kate Rowlands, Thomas de Lisle, Guillaume Hewitt, Maya Skarbinski, James S. Dunlop, Adam C. Carnall, Anton M. Koekemoer and Derek J. McLeod, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 550, 1, p. 1-24 (2026)
No Hidden Monsters: Probing recently quenched galaxies for obscured AGN with JWST-PRIMER MIRI and NIRCam DOI
Guillaume Hewitt, Omar Almaini, David Maltby, Emma Chapman, Thomas de Lisle, Pallavi Patil, Kate Rowlands, Maya Skarbinski, Elizabeth Taylor, Vivienne Wild, Adam C. Carnall, James S. Dunlop, Derek J. McLeod et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 550, 2, p. 1-14 (2026)
Strength in numbers: Red Galaxies Bolster the cosmic star formation rate density at z ≳ 3 DOI
L. Barrufet, J. S. Dunlop, R. Begley, S. Flury, D. J. McLeod, K. Arellano-Cordova, A. Carnall, F. Cullen, C. T. Donnan, F. Liu, R. McLure, D. Scholte, T. M. Stanton, R. K. Cochrane, C. Conselice, R. Ellis, P. G. Pérez-González et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 548, 4, p. 1-12 (2026)
The AURORA Survey: High-redshift Empirical Metallicity Calibrations from Electron Temperature Measurements at z = 2–10 DOI
Ryan L. Sanders, Alice E. Shapley, Michael W. Topping, Naveen A. Reddy, Danielle A. Berg, Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Rychard J. Bouwens, Gabriel Brammer, Adam C. Carnall, Fergus Cullen, Romeel Davé, James S. Dunlop, Richard S. Ellis, Derek J. McLeod, Ross J. McLure et al., Astrophysical Journal, 1003, 2, p. 1-30 (2026)
The AURORA Survey: The Mass–Metallicity and Fundamental Metallicity Relations at z ∼ 2.3 Based Purely on Direct Te Metallicities DOI
Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Ryan L. Sanders, Alice E. Shapley, Michael W. Topping, Naveen A. Reddy, Alex M. Garcia, Danielle A. Berg, Leonardo Clarke, Fergus Cullen, Richard S. Ellis, Derek J. McLeod et al., Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1003, 2, p. 1-10 (2026)
The JWST EXCELS survey: The ages and abundances of 3 < z < 5 massive quiescent galaxies show that downsizing was already in place by z ≃ 4 DOI
Ho-Hin Leung, A. C. Carnall, Elizabeth Taylor, Struan D. Stevenson, Aliza G. Beverage, Fergus Cullen, James S. Dunlop, Derek J. McLeod, Ross J. McLure, Ryan Begley, Omar Almaini, Stella Antonogiannaki, Karla Z. Arellano-Cordova, Laia Barrufet, Cecilia Bondestam, Callum T. Donnan, Isaac J.B. Holst, Dirk Scholte et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 549, 1, p. 1-28 (2026)
The JWST EXCELS Survey: gas-phase metallicity evolution at 2 < z < 8 DOI
T. M. Stanton, F. Cullen, A. C. Carnall, D. Scholte, K. Z. Arellano-Córdova, A. E. Shapley, D. J. McLeod, C. T. Donnan, R. Begley, R. Davé, J. S. Dunlop, R. J. McLure, K. Rowlands, C. Bondestam, M. L. Hamadouche, H. -H. Leung, S. D. Stevenson and E. Taylor, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 547, 4, p. 1-25 (2026)
The JWST EXCELS Survey: A spectroscopic investigation of the ionizing properties of star-forming galaxies at 1<z<8 DOI
R. Begley, R. J. McLure, F. Cullen, A. C. Carnall, T. M. Stanton, D. Scholte, D. J. McLeod, J. S. Dunlop, K. Z. Arellano-Córdova, C. Bondestam, C. T. Donnan, M. L. Hamadouch, A. E. Shapley and S. Stevenson, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 545, 1, p. 1-25 (2026)
CAPERS-LRD-z9: A Gas-enshrouded Little Red Dot Hosting a Broad-line Active Galactic Nucleus at z = 9.288 DOI
Anthony J. Taylor, Vasily Kokorev, Dale D. Kocevski, Hollis B. Akins, Fergus Cullen, Mark Dickinson, Steven L. Finkelstein, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Volker Bromm, Mauro Giavalisco, James S. Dunlop, Ho-Hin Leung, Derek J. McLeod, Ross McLure et al., Astrophysical Journal Letters, 989, 1, p. 1-18 (2025)
The JWST Emission Line Survey (JELS): An untargeted search for Hα emission line galaxies at z > 6 and their physical properties DOI
C. A. Pirie, P. N. Best, K. J. Duncan, D. J. McLeod, R. K. Cochrane, M. Clausen, J. S. Dunlop, S. R. Flury, J. E. Geach, C. L. Hale, E. Ibar, R. Kondapally, Zefeng Li, J. Matthee, R. J. McLure, L. Ossa-Fuentes et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 541, 2, p. 1348-1376 (2025)
JWST PRIMER: a lack of outshining in four normal z = 4 − 6 galaxies from the ALMA-CRISTAL Survey DOI
N. E.P. Lines, R. A.A. Bowler, N. J. Adams, R. Fisher, R. G. Varadaraj, Y. Nakazato, M. Aravena, R. J. Assef, J. E. Birkin, F. Cullen, J. S. Dunlop, D. J. Mcleod, R. J. Mclure et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 539, 3, p. 2685-2706 (2025)
No evidence (yet) for increased star-formation efficiency at early times DOI
C. T. Donnan, J. S. Dunlop, R. J. McLure, D. J. McLeod and F. Cullen, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 539, 3, p. 2409-2423 (2025)
The AURORA Survey: An Extraordinarily Mature, Star-forming Galaxy at z ∼ 7 DOI
Alice E. Shapley, Ryan L. Sanders, Michael W. Topping, Naveen A. Reddy, Anthony J. Pahl, Pascal A. Oesch, Danielle A. Berg, Rychard J. Bouwens, Gabriel Brammer, Adam C. Carnall, Fergus Cullen, Romeel Davé, James S. Dunlop, Derek J. McLeod, Ross J. McLure et al., Astrophysical Journal, 981, 2, p. 1-13 (2025)
The AURORA Survey: A New Era of Emission-line Diagrams with JWST/NIRSpec DOI
Alice E. Shapley, Ryan L. Sanders, Michael W. Topping, Naveen A. Reddy, Danielle A. Berg, Rychard J. Bouwens, Gabriel Brammer, Adam C. Carnall, Fergus Cullen, Romeel Davé, James S. Dunlop, Richard S. Ellis, N. M. Förster Schreiber, Derek J. McLeod, Ross J. McLure et al., Astrophysical Journal, 980, 2, p. 1-15 (2025)
JWST, ALMA, and Keck Spectroscopic Constraints on the UV Luminosity Functions at z ∼ 7–14: Clumpiness and Compactness of the Brightest Galaxies in the Early Universe DOI
Yuichi Harikane, Akio K. Inoue, Richard S. Ellis, Masami Ouchi, Yurina Nakazato, Naoki Yoshida, Yoshiaki Ono, Fengwu Sun, Riku A. Sato, Derek J. McLeod, Adam C. Carnall, Fergus Cullen, James S. Dunlop et al., Astrophysical Journal, 980, 1, p. 1-26 (2025)
The JWST EXCELS survey: tracing the chemical enrichment pathways of high-redshift star-forming galaxies with O, Ar and Ne abundances DOI
T. M. Stanton, F. Cullen, A. C. Carnall, D. Scholte, K. Z. Arellano-Córdova, D. J. McLeod, R. Begley, C. T. Donnan, J. S. Dunlop, M. L. Hamadouche, R. J. McLure, A. E. Shapley, C. Bondestam and S. Stevenson, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537, 2, p. 1735-1748 (2025)
ASTRODEEP-JWST: NIRCam-HST multi-band photometry and redshifts for half a million sources in six extragalactic deep fields DOI
E. Merlin, P. Santini, D. Paris, M. Castellano, A. Fontana, T. Treu, S. L. Finkelstein, J. S. Dunlop, P. Arrabal Haro, M. Bagley, D. J. McLeod, R. J. McLure et al., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 691, p. 1-14 (2024)
Charting the main sequence of star-forming galaxies out to redshifts z ≲ 5.7 DOI
M. P. Koprowski, J. V. Wijesekera, J. S. Dunlop, D. J. Mcleod, M. J. Michalowski, K. Lisiecki and R. J. Mclure, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 691, p. 1-12 (2024)
The JWST EXCELS survey: too much, too young, too fast? Ultra-massive quiescent galaxies at 3 < z < 5 DOI
A. C. Carnall, F. Cullen, R. J. Mclure, D. J. Mcleod, R. Begley, C. T. Donnan, J. S. Dunlop, A. E. Shapley, K. Rowlands, O. Almaini, K. Z. Arellano-Córdova, L. Barrufet, A. Cimatti, R. S. Ellis, N. A. Grogin et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 534, 1, p. 325-348 (2024)
Galaxy build-up in the first 1.5 Gyr of cosmic history: insights from the stellar mass function at z ∼ 4–9 from JWST NIRCam observations DOI
Andrea Weibel, Pascal A. Oesch, Laia Barrufet, Rashmi Gottumukkala, Richard S. Ellis, Paola Santini, John R. Weaver, Natalie Allen, Rychard Bouwens, Rebecca A.A. Bowler, Adam C. Carnall, Fergus Cullen, James S. Dunlop, Derek J. McLeod, Ross J. McLure et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533, 2, p. 1808-1838 (2024)
JWST PRIMER: a new multifield determination of the evolving galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts z ≃ 9 -15 DOI
C. T. Donnan, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, D. J. McLeod, D. Magee, K. Z. Arellano-Córdova, L. Barrufet, R. Begley, R. A.A. Bowler, A. C. Carnall, F. Cullen, R. S. Ellis, A. Fontana, G. D. Illingworth, N. A. Grogin et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533, 3, p. 3222-3237 (2024)
The sizes of bright Lyman-break galaxies at z 3–5 with JWST PRIMER DOI
R. G. Varadaraj, R. A.A. Bowler, M. J. Jarvis, N. J. Adams, N. Choustikov, A. M. Koekemoer, A. C. Carnall, D. J. McLeod, J. S. Dunlop, C. T. Donnan and N. A. Grogin, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533, 3, p. 3724-3741 (2024)
The NIRVANDELS Survey: the stellar and gas-phase mass-metallicity relations of star-forming galaxies at z = 3.5 DOI
T. M. Stanton, F. Cullen, R. J. McLure, A. E. Shapley, K. Z. Arellano-Córdova, R. Begley, R. Amorín, L. Barrufet, A. Calabrò, A. C. Carnall, M. Cirasuolo, J. S. Dunlop, C. T. Donnan, M. L. Hamadouche, D. J. McLeod et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532, 3, p. 3102-3119 (2024)
The ultraviolet continuum slopes of high-redshift galaxies: evidence for the emergence of dust-free stellar populations at z > 10 DOI
F. Cullen, D.J. McLeod, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, C.T. Donnan, A. C. Carnall, L.C. Keating, D Magee, K.Z. Arellano-Cordova, R. A. A. Bowler, R. Begley, S.R. Flury, M.L. Hamadouche and T.M. Stanton, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531, 1, p. 997-1020 (2024)
Identification and characterization of six spectroscopically confirmed massive protostructures at 2.5 < z < 4.5 DOI
Ekta A. Shah, Brian Lemaux, Benjamin Forrest, Olga Cucciati, Denise Hung, Priti Staab, Nimish Hathi, Lori Lubin, Roy R. Gal, Derek McLeod et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529, 2, p. 873-882 (2024)
The galaxy UV luminosity function at z≃11 from a suite of public JWST ERS, ERO and Cycle-1 programs DOI
D. J. McLeod, C. T. Donnan, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, D. Magee, R. Begley, A. C. Carnall, F. Cullen, R. S. Ellis, M. L. Hamadouche and T. M. Stanton, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527, 3, p. 5004-5022 (2024)
Confirmation and refutation of very luminous galaxies in the early Universe DOI
Pablo Arrabal Haro, Mark Dickinson, Steven L. Finkelstein, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Callum T. Donnan, Denis Burgarella, Adam C. Carnall, Fergus Cullen, James S. Dunlop, Vital Fernandez, Seiji Fujimoto, Intae Jung, Derek J. McLeod, Ross J. McLure et al., Nature, 622, 7984, p. 707-711 (2023)
A massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.658 DOI
Adam C. Carnall, Ross J. McLure, James S. Dunlop, Derek J. McLeod, Vivienne Wild, Fergus Cullen, Dan Magee, Ryan Begley, Andrea Cimatti, Callum T. Donnan, Massissilia L. Hamadouche, Sophie M. Jewell and Sam Walker, Nature, 619, 7971, p. 716-719 (2023)
The VANDELS survey: the ionizing properties of star-forming galaxies at 3 ≤ z ≤ 5 using deep rest-frame ultraviolet spectroscopy DOI
A. Saldana-Lopez, D. Schaerer, J. Chisholm, A. Calabrò, L. Pentericci, F. Cullen, A. Saxena, R. Amorín, A. C. Carnall, F. Fontanot, J. P.U. Fynbo, D. J. McLeod et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522, 4, p. 6295-6325 (2023)
The connection between stellar mass, age and quenching timescale in massive quiescent galaxies at z ≃ 1 DOI
M. L. Hamadouche, A. C. Carnall, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, R. Begley, F. Cullen, D. J. McLeod, C. T. Donnan and T. M. Stanton, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521, 4, p. 5400-5409 (2023)
A surprising abundance of massive quiescent galaxies at 3 < z < 5 in the first data from JWST CEERS DOI
A. C. Carnall, D. J. McLeod, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, R. Begley, F. Cullen, C. T. Donnan, M. L. Hamadouche, S. M. Jewell, E. W. Jones, C. L. Pollock and V. Wild, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520, 3, p. 3974-3985 (2023)
The evolution of the galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts z ~ 8-15 from deep JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging DOI
C. T. Donnan, D. J. McLeod, J. S. Dunlop, R. J. McLure, A. C. Carnall, R. Begley, F. Cullen, M. L. Hamadouche, R. A. A. Bowler, D. Magee, H. J. McCracken, B. Milvang-Jensen, A. Moneti and T. Targett, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518, 4, p. 6011-6040 (2023)
The VANDELS survey: a measurement of the average Lyman-continuum escape fraction of star-forming galaxies at z=3.5 DOI
R. Begley, F. Cullen, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, A. Hall, A. C. Carnall, M. L. Hamadouche, D. J. McLeod, R. Amorín, A. Calabrò, A. Fontana, J. P. U. Fynbo, L. Guaita, N. P. Hathi, P. Hibon et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513, 3, p. 3510-3525 (2022)
The ASTRODEEP-GS43 catalogue: new photometry and redshifts for the CANDELS GOODS-South field DOI
E. Merlin, M. Castellano, P. Santini, G. Cipolletta, K. Boutsia, C. Schreiber, F. Buitrago, A. Fontana, D. Elbaz, J. Dunlop, R. McLure, D. McLeod et al., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 649, p. 14 (2021)
The VANDELS ESO public spectroscopic survey final Data Release of 2087 spectra and spectroscopic measurements DOI
B. Garilli, R. McLure, L. Pentericci, P. Franzetti, A. Gargiulo, A. Carnall, O. Cucciati, A. Iovino, R. Amorin, M. Bolzonella, A. Bongiorno, F. Cullen, J. Dunlop, D. McLeod et al., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 647, p. 1-15 (2021)
Timing the earliest quenching events with a robust sample of massive quiescent galaxies at 2 <z <5 DOI
A. C. Carnall, S. Walker, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, D. J. McLeod, F. Cullen, V. Wild, R. Amorin, M. Bolzonella, M. Castellano, A. Cimatti, O. Cucciati, A. Fontana, A. Gargiulo et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 496, 1, p. 695-707 (2020)
The VANDELS survey: DOI
F. Cullen, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, A. C. Carnall, D. J. McLeod, A. E. Shapley, R. Amorín, M. Bolzonella, M. Castellano, A. Cimatti, M. Cirasuolo, O. Cucciati, A. Fontana, F. Fontanot et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495, 1, p. 1501-1510 (2020)
The properties of He IIλ1640 emitters at z ∼ 2.5–5 from the VANDELS survey DOI
A. Saxena, L. Pentericci, M. Mirabelli, D. Schaerer, R. Schneider, F. Cullen, R. Amorin, M. Bolzonella, A. Bongiorno, A. C. Carnall, M. Castellano, D. J. McLeod, R. J. McLure et al., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 636 (2020)
A lack of evolution in the very bright end of the galaxy luminosity function from z ≃ 8 to 10 DOI
R. A. A. Bowler, M. J. Jarvis, J. S. Dunlop, R. J. McLure, D. J. McLeod, N. J. Adams, B. Milvang-Jensen and H. J. McCracken, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493, 2, p. 2059-2084 (2020)
The Intergalactic medium transmission towards z>4 galaxies with VANDELS and the impact of dust attenuation DOI
R. Thomas, L. Pentericci, O. Le Fèvre, G. Zamorani, D. Schaerer, R. Amorin, M. Castellano, A. C. Carnall, S. Cristiani, F. Cullen, S. L. Finkelstein, D. McLeod, R. J. McLure et al., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 634 (2020)
HST Imaging of the Ionizing Radiation from a Star-forming Galaxy at z = 3.794 DOI
Zhiyuan Ji, Mauro Giavalisco, Eros Vanzella, Brian Siana, Laura Pentericci, Anne Jaskot, Teng Liu, Mario Nonino, Henry C. Ferguson, Adam C. Carnall, Fergus Cullen, Derek McLeod et al., Astrophysical Journal, 888, 2 (2020)
The VANDELS survey DOI
A. C. Carnall, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, F. Cullen, D. J. McLeod, V. Wild, B. D. Johnson, S. Appleby, R. Davé, R. Amorin, M. Bolzonella, M. Castellano, A. Cimatti, O. Cucciati, A. Gargiulo et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490, 1, p. 417-439 (2019)
High-velocity outflows in massive post-starburst galaxies at z > 1 DOI
David T. Maltby, Omar Almaini, Ross J. McLure, Vivienne Wild, James Dunlop, Kate Rowlands, William G. Hartley, Nina A. Hatch, Miguel Socolovsky, Aaron Wilkinson, Ricardo Amorin, Adam C. Carnall, Fergus Cullen, Derek J. McLeod et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489, 1, p. 1139-1151 (2019)
New redshift z ≃ 9 galaxies in the Hubble Frontier Fields: implications for early evolution of the UV luminosity density DOI
D. J. McLeod, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, B. E. Robertson, R. S. Ellis and T. A. Targett, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450, p. 3032-3044 (2015)

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