Ross McLure
Professor R J McLure
- Position
- Professor of Extragalactic Astrophysics
- Category
- Academic staff
- Location
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Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE)
Room U17
- Email: rmclure [at] ed.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)131 668 8419
- Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Ross is a member of the following School research institute:
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.
Observational Astronomy course coordinator (3rd year undergraduate)
Observation Astronomy Lecturer
Astrophysics Lecturer
Ross has featured in the following recent School news stories:
Recent publications
- The NIRVANDELS Survey: the stellar and gas-phase mass-metallicity relations of star-forming galaxies at z = 3.5 DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532, 3, p. 3102-3119
- The ultraviolet continuum slopes of high-redshift galaxies: evidence for the emergence of dust-free stellar populations at z > 10 DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531, 1, p. 997-1020
- An optimal ALMA image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field in the era of JWST: obscured star formation and the cosmic far-infrared background DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528, 3, p. 5019-5045
- Connecting the escape fraction of Lyman-alpha and Lyman-continuum photons in star-forming galaxies at z≃4−5 DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527, 2, p. 4040-4051
- The galaxy UV luminosity function at z≃11 from a suite of public JWST ERS, ERO and Cycle-1 programs DOI, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527, 3, p. 5004-5022