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
Edinburgh Research Explorer profile

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

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)
Quiescent or dusty? Unveiling the nature of extremely red galaxies at z>3 DOI
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, 537, 4, p. 3453-3469 (2025)
The evolution of [O iii]+H equivalent width from z ≃ 3 − 8: implications for the production and escape of ionizing photons during reionization DOI
R. Begley, R. J. McLure, F. Cullen, D. J. McLeod, J. S. Dunlop, A. C. Carnall, T. M. Stanton, A. E. Shapley, R. Cochrane, C. T. Donnan, R. S. Ellis, A. Fontana, N. A. Grogin et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537, 4, p. 3245-3264 (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)
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)

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This article was last updated on Mar 27, 2023.