Ross McLure

School of Physics and Astronomy

Professor R J McLure

Position: Professor of Extragalactic Astrophysics
Category: Academic staff
Location: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE)
Room U17

School research affiliations

Ross is a member of the following School research institute:

Institute for Astronomy

Biography

Research interests

I am primarily an observational astronomer studying the formation and evolution of galaxies. Currently my research is focused on determining the physical properties of the first galaxies to form in the early history of the Universe. The goal of this research is to improve our understanding of the earliest phases of galaxy evolution and to unveil the sources responsible for the re-ionization of the Universe some 13 billion years ago.

Teaching

Observational Astronomy course coordinator (3rd year undergraduate)

Observation Astronomy Lecturer

Astrophysics Lecturer

Recent news

Ross has featured in the following recent School news stories:

Publications

Recent publications

A combined VANDELS and LEGA-C study: the evolution of quiescent galaxy size, stellar mass, and age from z = 0.6 to z = 1.3 DOI
M. L. Hamadouche, A. C. Carnall, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, D. J. McLeod, F. Cullen, R. Begley, M. Bolzonella, F. Buitrago, M. Castellano, O. Cucciati, A. Fontana, A. Gargiulo et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512, 1, p. 1262-1274 (2022)
The VANDELS survey: a measurement of the average Lyman-continuum escape fraction of star-forming galaxies at z=3.5
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 (2022)
The stellar metallicities of massive quiescent galaxies at 1.0 < z < 1.3 from KMOS+VANDELS
Adam C. Carnall, Ross J. McLure, James S. Dunlop, Massissilia Hamadouche, Fergus Cullen, Derek J. McLeod, Ryan Begley, Ricardo Amorin, Micol Bolzonella, Marco Castellano, Andrea Cimatti, Fabio Fontanot, Adriana Gargiulo et al., Astrophysical Journal (2022)
The NIRVANDELS Survey: DOI
F. Cullen, A. E. Shapley, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, R. L. Sanders, M. W. Topping, N. A. Reddy, R. Amorin, R. Begley, M. Bolzonella, A. Calabro, A. C. Carnall, M. Castellano et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505, 1, p. 903-920 (2021)
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)

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This article was last updated on Jun 16, 2021.