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

Email: rmclure [at] ed.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8419
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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

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Publications

Recent publications

The JWST EXCELS survey: tracing the chemical enrichment pathways of high-redshift star-forming galaxies with O, Ar and Ne abundances
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 (2025)
Quiescent or dusty? Unveiling the nature of extremely red galaxies at z>3
L. Barrufet, P. Oesch, R. Marques-Chaves, K. Arellano-Cordova, J. F. W. Baggen, A. C. Carnall, F. Cullen, J. S. Dunlop, R. Gottumukkala, Y. Fudamoto, G. D. Illingworth, D. Magee, R. J. McLure, D. J. McLeod, M. J. Michałowski et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2024)
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, M. L. Hamadouche et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 534, 1, p. 325-348 (2024)

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This article was last updated on Mar 27, 2023.