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

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, Advance Access, 2025-04


The hierarchical growth of bright central galaxies and intracluster light as traced by the magnitude gap

Golden-Marx, Zhang, Ogando, ..., et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 538, Issue 2, pp.622-638, 2025-04


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, Advance Access, 2025-04


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

Gully, Hatch, Ahad, ..., et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Advance Access, 2025-04


Stellar stripping efficiencies of satellites in numerical simulations: the effect of resolution, satellite properties, and numerical disruption

Martin, Pearce, Hatch, ..., et al.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 535, Issue 3, pp.2375-2393, 2024-12


Upcoming Events

30 Apr
School Colloquium
Tracing ultrafast dynamics of electronic and structural excitations at atomic scales.
Melanie Muller (Fritz-Haber-Instutit der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) 3pm B13
07 May
Weekly Seminar
Charting early galaxy formation and growth with JWST and ALMA
Jim Dunlop (Edinburgh) 3.45pm C4
08 May
Lunch Talk
Rhys Jordan 1.00pm C14
14 May
Weekly Seminar
Clive Tadhunter (Sheffield) 3.45pm C4
For further events and talk abstracts, see the Events page.