Welcome

To the Nottingham Astronomy group website

The group is part of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham, England. Also involved in astronomical research at the University are the Particle Theory Group.

Our research runs the gamut of cosmology and extragalactic astrophysics, from the structure of the Universe to studies of distant and nearby galaxies, and benefits from the interplay of observations, theory, and computation.


The Hubble space telescope
The Trent Building
Nottingham's supercomputer Minerva

Recent Publications

How probable is the Ly-α damping wing in the spectrum of the redshift z = 5.9896 quasar ULAS J0148+0600?

Sawyer, Bolton, Becker, Conaboy, ..., et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 540, Issue 3, pp.2238-2252, 2025-07


No evidence for excess AGN activity in recently quenched massive galaxies at cosmic noon

Almaini, Wild, Maltby, Taylor, ..., de Lisle, Harrold, Hewitt, et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 539, Issue 4, pp. 3568-3581, 14 pp., 2025-06


Insights into environmental quenching at z ∼ 1: an enhancement of faint, low-mass passive galaxies in clusters

Gully, Hatch, Ahad, Bahé, ..., et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 539, Issue 4, pp. 3058-3076, 19 pp., 2025-06


The connection between high-redshift galaxies and Lyman α transmission in the Sherwood–Relics simulations of patchy reionization

Conaboy, Bolton, Keating, ..., et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 539, Issue 3, pp. 2790-2805, 16 pp., 2025-05


Intracluster light is a biased tracer of the dark matter distribution in clusters

Butler, Martin, Hatch, Pearce, ..., et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 539, Issue 3, pp. 2279-2291, 13 pp., 2025-05


Upcoming Events

18 Jun
Weekly Seminar
Unveiling galaxy assembly with Low Surface Brightness tidal features
Elisabeth Sola (Cambridge) 3.45pm C4
19 Jun
Lunch Talk
Tom Bakx (Chalmers) 1.00pm A113
For further events and talk abstracts, see the Events page.