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Overview

James S. Dunlop is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and specializes in the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their research output encompasses areas such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, along with topics related to Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, and Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing.

Throughout their career, Dunlop has published extensively in several notable scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Nature Astronomy

Some of the scientist's recent papers are as follows:

  • "COSMOS2020: A Panchromatic View of the Universe to z ∼ 10 from Two Complementary Catalogs," 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • "An ALMA survey of the SCUBA-2 CLS UDS field: physical properties of 707 sub-millimetre galaxies," 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "A lack of evolution in the very bright end of the galaxy luminosity function from z ≃ 8 to 10," 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Confirmation and refutation of very luminous galaxies in the early Universe," 2023, Nature
  • "A massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.658," 2023, Nature

The scientist's frequent co-authors include:

  • D J McLeod
  • Fergus Cullen
  • R. J. McLure
  • Adam C. Carnall
  • Callum T. Donnan

James S. Dunlop's expertise extends into several important subfields including Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Computational Mechanics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. This diverse subfield focus complements their main research themes and reflects a broad engagement with both observational and theoretical aspects of astrophysics.

Best Publications

  • CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey - The Hubble Space Telescope Observations, Imaging Data Products and Mosaics

    Anton M. Koekemoer;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson;Norman A. Grogin

  • CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey

    Norman A. Grogin;Dale D. Kocevski;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson

  • Euclid Definition Study Report

    R. Laureijs;J. Amiaux;S. Arduini;J.-L. Auguères

  • High-redshift star formation in the Hubble Deep Field revealed by a submillimetre-wavelength survey

    David H. Hughes;Stephen Serjeant;James Dunlop;Michael Rowan-Robinson

  • Unveiling Dust-enshrouded Star Formation in the Early Universe: a Sub-mm Survey of the Hubble Deep Field

    David Hughes;Steve Serjeant;James Dunlop;Michael Rowan-Robinson

  • Candels: The cosmic assembly near-infrared deep extragalactic legacy survey - The hubble space telescope observations, imaging data products, and mosaics

    Anton M. Koekemoer;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson;Norman A. Grogin

  • The COSMOS2015 Catalog: Exploring the 1 < z < 6 Universe with Half a Million Galaxies

    C. Laigle;H. J. McCracken;O. Ilbert;B. C. Hsieh

  • Cosmic Reionization and Early Star-Forming Galaxies: A Joint Analysis of New Constraints from Planck and Hubble Space Telescope

    Brant E. Robertson;Richard S. Ellis;Steven R. Furlanetto;James S. Dunlop

  • Mass assembly in quiescent and star-forming galaxies since z ≃ 4 from UltraVISTA

    O. Ilbert;H. J. McCracken;O. Le Fevre;P. Capak

  • Cosmic Reionization and Early Star-forming Galaxies: a Joint Analysis of new Constraints From Planck and the Hubble Space Telescope

    Brant E. Robertson;Richard S. Ellis;Steven R. Furlanetto;James S. Dunlop

  • The Herschel ATLAS

    S. Eales;L. Dunne;D. Clements;A. Cooray

  • THE EVOLUTION OF THE STELLAR MASS FUNCTIONS OF STAR-FORMING AND QUIESCENT GALAXIES TO z = 4 FROM THE COSMOS/UltraVISTA SURVEY*

    Adam Muzzin;Danilo Marchesini;Mauro Stefanon;Marijn Franx

  • The redshift cut-off in the luminosity function of radio galaxies and quasars.

    James Dunlop;John Peacock

  • The Evolution of the Galaxy Rest-Frame Ultraviolet Luminosity Function Over the First Two Billion Years

    Steven Lyle Finkelstein;Russell E. Ryan;Casey Papovich;Mark Dickinson

  • On the black hole- bulge mass relation in active and inactive galaxies

    Ross J. McLure;J.S. Dunlop

  • The Abundance of Star-Forming Galaxies in the Redshift Range 8.5 to 12: New Results from the 2012 Hubble Ultra Deep Field Campaign

    Richard S Ellis;Ross J McLure;James S Dunlop;Brant E Robertson

  • Quasars, their host galaxies and their central black holes

    James Dunlop;Ross McLure;Marek Kukula;Stefi Baum

  • UltraVISTA: a new ultra-deep near-infrared survey in COSMOS

    H. J. McCracken;B. Milvang-Jensen;J. Dunlop;M. Franx

  • The Herschel ATLAS

    Stephen Anthony Eales;L. Dunne;D. Clements;A. Cooray

  • Improved constraints on the expansion rate of the Universe up to z ∼ 1.1 from the spectroscopic evolution of cosmic chronometers

    M. Moresco;A. Cimatti;R. Jimenez;L. Pozzetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob Ivison
Rob Ivison European Southern Observatory
Ross J. McLure
Ross J. McLure University of Edinburgh
Michele Cirasuolo
Michele Cirasuolo European Southern Observatory
Ian Smail
Ian Smail Durham University
Duncan Farrah
Duncan Farrah University of Hawaii at Manoa
Omar Almaini
Omar Almaini University of Nottingham
Douglas Scott
Douglas Scott University of British Columbia
Anton M. Koekemoer
Anton M. Koekemoer Space Telescope Science Institute
Matt J. Jarvis
Matt J. Jarvis University of Oxford
John A. Peacock
John A. Peacock University of Edinburgh

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