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Dr Iain McDonald

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The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. VI. The Star Formation History and Dust Production in Andromeda IX (2023-05-08)
Abdollahi, Hedieh; Javadi, Atefeh; Mirtorabi, Mohammad Taghi; Saremi, Elham; van Loon, Jacco Th.; Khosroshahi, Habib G.; McDonald, Iain; Khalouei, Elahe; Mahani, Hamidreza; Aghdam, Sima Taefi; Saberi, Maryam and Torki, Maryam
The Astrophysical Journal, 948, Article 63(1)


Kepler K2 Campaign 9: II. First space-based discovery of an exoplanet using microlensing (2023-01-31)
Specht, D.; Poleski, R.; Penny, M. T.; Kerins, E.; McDonald, I.; Lee, Chung-Uk; Udalski, A.; Bond, I. A.; Shvartzvald, Y.; Zang, Weicheng; Street, R. A.; Hogg, D. W.; Gaudi, B. S.; Barclay, T.; Barentsen, G.; Howell, S. B.; Mullally, F.; Henderson, C. B.; Bryson, S. T.; Caldwell, D. A.; Haas, M. R.; Van Cleve, J. E.; Larson, K.; McCalmont, K.; Peterson, C.; Putnam, D.; Ross, S.; Packard, M.; Reedy, L.; Albrow, Michael D.; Chung, Sun-Ju; Jung, Youn Kil; Gould, Andrew; Han, Cheongho; Hwang, Kyu-Ha; Ryu, Yoon-Hyun; Shin, In-Gu; Yang, Hongjing; Yee, Jennifer C.; Cha, Sang-Mok; Kim, Dong-Jin; Kim, Seung-Lee; Lee, Dong-Joo; Lee, Yongseok; Park, Byeong-Gon; Pogge, Richard W.; Szymański, M. K.; Soszyński, I.; Ulaczyk, K.; Pietrukowicz, P.; Kozłowski, Sz; Skowron, J.; Mróz, P.; Mao, Shude; Fouqué, Pascal; Zhu, Wei; Abe, F.; Barry, R.; Bennett, D. P.; Bhattacharya, A.; Fukui, A.; Fujii, H.; Hirao, Y.; Itow, Y.; Kirikawa, R.; Kondo, I.; Koshimoto, N.; Matsubara, Y.; Matsumoto, S.; Miyazaki, S.; Muraki, Y.; Olmschenk, G.; Ranc, C.; Okamura, A.; Rattenbury, N. J.; Satoh, Y.; Sumi, T.; Suzuki, D.; Silva, S. I.; Toda, T.; Tristram, P. J.; Vandorou, A.; Yama, H.; Beichman, C.; Bryden, G. and Novati, S. Calchi
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ((Early Access))


The Co-Ordinated radio and infrared survey for high-mass star formation – V. The CORNISH-South survey and catalogue (2023)
Irabor, T; Hoare, M G; Burton, M; Cotton, W D; Diamond, P; Dougherty, S; Ellingsen, S P; Fender, R; Fuller, G A; Garrington, S; Goldsmith, P F; Green, J; Gunn, A G; Jackson, J; Kurtz, S; Lumsden, S L; Marti, J; McDonald, I; Molinari, S; Moore, T J; Mutale, M; Muxlow, T; O’Brien, T; Oudmaijer, R D; Paladini, R; Pandian, J D; Paredes, J M; Richards, A M S; Sanchez-Monge, A; Spencer, R; Thompson, M A; Umana, G; Urquhart, J S; Wieringa, M and Zijlstra, A
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ((Early access))


The VLT/SPHERE view of the ATOMIUM cool evolved star sample (2023)
Montargès, M.; Cannon, E.; de Koter, A.; Khouri, T.; Lagadec, E.; Kervella, P.; Decin, L.; McDonald, I.; Homan, W.; Waters, L. B. F. M.; Sahai, R.; Gottlieb, C. A.; Malfait, J.; Maes, S.; Pimpanuwat, B.; Jeste, M.; Danilovich, T.; De Ceuster, F.; Van de Sande, M.; Gobrecht, D.; Wallström, S. H. J.; Wong, K. T.; El Mellah, I.; Bolte, J.; Herpin, F.; Richards, A. M. S.; Baudry, A.; Etoka, S.; Gray, M. D.; Millar, T. J.; Menten, K. M.; Müller, H. S. P.; Plane, J. M. C.; Yates, J. and Zijlstra, A.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 671, Article A96


The messy death of a multiple star system and the resulting planetary nebula as observed by JWST (2022-12)
De Marco, Orsola; Akashi, Muhammad; Akras, Stavros; Alcolea, Javier; Aleman, Isabel; Amram, Philippe; Balick, Bruce; De Beck, Elvire; Blackman, Eric G.; Boffin, Henri M. J.; Boumis, Panos; Bublitz, Jesse; Bucciarelli, Beatrice; Bujarrabal, Valentin; Cami, Jan; Chornay, Nicholas; Chu, You-Hua; Corradi, Romano L. M.; Frank, Adam; García-Hernández, D. A.; García-Rojas, Jorge; García-Segura, Guillermo; Gómez-Llanos, Veronica; Gonçalves, Denise R.; Guerrero, Martín A.; Jones, David; Karakas, Amanda I.; Kastner, Joel H.; Kwok, Sun; Lykou, Foteini; Manchado, Arturo; Matsuura, Mikako; McDonald, Iain; Miszalski, Brent; Mohamed, Shazrene S.; Monreal-Ibero, Ana; Monteiro, Hektor; Montez, Rodolfo; Baez, Paula Moraga; Morisset, Christophe; Nordhaus, Jason; Mendes de Oliveira, Claudia; Osborn, Zara; Otsuka, Masaaki; Parker, Quentin A.; Peeters, Els; Quint, Bruno C.; Quintana-Lacaci, Guillermo; Redman, Matt; Ruiter, Ashley J.; Sabin, Laurence; Sahai, Raghvendra; Contreras, Carmen Sánchez; Santander-García, Miguel; Seitenzahl, Ivo; Soker, Noam; Speck, Angela K.; Stanghellini, Letizia; Steffen, Wolfgang; Toalá, Jesús A.; Ueta, Toshiya; Van de Steene, Griet; Van Winckel, Hans; Ventura, Paolo; Villaver, Eva; Vlemmings, Wouter; Walsh, Jeremy R.; Wesson, Roger and Zijlstra, Albert A.
Nature Astronomy, 6 (pp. 1421-1432)


The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey II: Constructing a volume-limited sample and first results from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (2022-05)
Scicluna, P; Kemper, F; McDonald, I; Srinivasan, S; Trejo, A; Wallström, S H J; Wouterloot, J G A; Cami, J; Greaves, J; He, Jinhua; Hoai, D T; Kim, Hyosun; Jones, O C; Shinnaga, H; Clark, C J R; Dharmawardena, T; Holland, W; Imai, H; van Loon, J Th; Menten, K M; Wesson, R; Chawner, H; Feng, S; Goldman, S; Liu, F C; MacIsaac, H; Tang, J; Zeegers, S; Amada, K; Antoniou, V; Bemis, A; Boyer, M L; Chapman, S; Chen, X; Cho, S-H; Cui, L; Dell’Agli, F; Friberg, P; Fukaya, S; Gomez, H; Gong, Y; Hadjara, M; Haswell, C; Hirano, N; Hony, S; Izumiura, H; Jeste, M; Jiang, X; Kaminski, T; Keaveney, N; Kim, J; Kraemer, K E; Kuan, Y-J; Lagadec, E; Lee, C F; Li, D; Liu, S-Y; Liu, T; de Looze, I; Lykou, F; Maraston, C; Marshall, J P; Matsuura, M; Min, C; Otsuka, M; Oyadomari, M; Parsons, H; Patel, N A; Peeters, E; Pham, T A; Qiu, J; Randall, S; Rau, G; Redman, M P; Richards, A M S; Serjeant, S; Shi, C; Sloan, G C; Smith, M W L; Toalá, J A; Uttenthaler, S; Ventura, P; Wang, B; Yamamura, I; Yang, T; Yun, Y; Zhang, F; Zhang, Y; Zhao, G; Zhu, M and Zijlstra, A A
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(1) (pp. 1091-1110)


A Census of Thermally Pulsing AGB Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy and a First Estimate of Their Contribution to the Global Dust Budget (2022-04)
Goldman, Steven R.; Boyer, Martha L.; Dalcanton, Julianne; McDonald, Iain; Girardi, Léo; Williams, Benjamin F.; Srinivasan, Sundar and Gordon, Karl
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 259, Article 41(2)


ATOMIUM: ALMA tracing the origins of molecules in dust forming oxygen rich M-type stars (2022-04)
Gottlieb, C. A.; Decin, L.; Richards, A. M. S.; De Ceuster, F.; Homan, W.; Wallström, S. H. J.; Danilovich, T.; Millar, T. J.; Montargès, M.; Wong, K. T.; McDonald, I.; Baudry, A.; Bolte, J.; Cannon, E.; De Beck, E.; de Koter, A.; El Mellah, I.; Etoka, S.; Gobrecht, D.; Gray, M.; Herpin, F.; Jeste, M.; Kervella, P.; Khouri, T.; Lagadec, E.; Maes, S.; Malfait, J.; Menten, K. M.; Müller, H. S. P.; Pimpanuwat, B.; Plane, J. M. C.; Sahai, R.; Van de Sande, M.; Waters, L. B. F. M.; Yates, J. and Zijlstra, A.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 660, Article A94


The detection of radio emission from known X-ray flaring star EXO 040830−7134.7 (2022-02)
Driessen, L. N.; Williams, D. R. A.; McDonald, I.; Stappers, B. W.; Buckley, D. A. H.; Fender, R. P. and Woudt, P. A.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(1) (pp. 1083-1092)


ATOMIUM: halide molecules around the S-type AGB star W Aquilae (2021-11)
Danilovich, T.; Van de Sande, M.; Plane, J. M. C.; Millar, T. J.; Royer, P.; Amor, M. A.; Hammami, K.; Decock, L.; Gottlieb, C. A.; Decin, L.; Richards, A. M. S.; De Beck, E.; Baudry, A.; Bolte, J.; Cannon, E.; De Ceuster, F.; de Koter, A.; Etoka, S.; Gobrecht, D.; Gray, M.; Herpin, F.; Homan, W.; Jeste, M.; Kervella, P.; Khouri, T.; Lagadec, E.; Maes, S.; Malfait, J.; McDonald, I.; Menten, K. M.; Montargès, M.; Müller, H. S. P.; Pimpanuwat, B.; Sahai, R.; Wallström, S. H. J.; Waters, L. B. F. M.; Wong, K. T.; Yates, J. and Zijlstra, A.
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 655, Article A80(A&A)


Kepler K2 Campaign 9 – I. Candidate short-duration events from the first space-based survey for planetary microlensing (2021-08)
McDonald, I.; Kerins, E.; Poleski, R.; Penny, M. T.; Specht, D.; Mao, S.; Fouqué, P.; Zhu, W. and Zang, W.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505(4) (pp. 5584-5602)


Determination of Rotation Periods for a Large Sample of Asteroids from the K2 Campaign 9 (2021-07)
Podlewska-Gaca, Edyta; Poleski, Radosław; Bartczak, Przemysław; McDonald, Iain and Pál, András
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 255(1)


Infrared variable stars in the compact elliptical galaxy M32 (2021-06)
Jones, O. C.; Nally, C.; Sharp, M. J.; McDonald, Iain; Boyer, M. L.; Meixner, M.; Kemper, F.; Ferguson, A .M. N.; Goldman, S. R. and Rich, R. M.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504(1) (pp. 565-575)


Improved Models of Coalescence Ages of Y-DNA Haplogroups (2021-06)
McDonald, Iain
Genes, 12, Article 862(6)


The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. IV. The Star Formation History of Andromeda VII Derived from Long-period Variable Stars (2021-04-05)
Navabi, Mahdieh; Saremi, Elham; Javadi, Atefeh; Noori, Majedeh; van Loon, Jacco Th.; Khosroshahi, Habib G.; McDonald, Iain; Alizadeh, Mina; Danesh, Arash; Gozaliasl, Ghassem; Molaeinezhad, Alireza; Parto, Tahere and Raouf, Mojtaba
The Astrophysical Journal, 910(2)


Classification of Planetary Nebulae through Deep Transfer Learning (2020-12)
Awang Iskandar, Dayang N. F.; Zijlstra, Albert A.; McDonald, Iain; Abdullah, Rosni; Fuller, Gary A.; Fauzi, Ahmad H. and Abdullah, Johari
Galaxies, 8, Article 88(4)


(Sub)stellar companions shape the winds of evolved stars (2020-09-18)
Decin, L.; Montargès, M.; Richards, A. M. S.; Gottlieb, C. A.; Homan, W.; Mcdonald, I.; El Mellah, I.; Danilovich, T.; Wallström, S. H. J.; Zijlstra, A.; Baudry, A.; Bolte, J.; Cannon, E.; De Beck, E.; De Ceuster, F.; de Koter, A.; De Ridder, J.; Etoka, S.; Gobrecht, D.; Gray, M.; Herpin, F.; Jeste, M.; Lagadec, E.; Kervella, P.; Khouri, T.; Menten, K.; Millar, T. J.; Müller, H. S. P.; Plane, J. M. C.; Sahai, R.; Sana, H.; Van de Sande, M.; Waters, L. B. F. M.; Wong, K. T. and Yates, J.
Science, 369(6510) (pp. 1497-1500)


The onset of the AGB wind tied to a transition between sequences in the period–luminosity diagram (2019)
McDonald, I. and Trabucchi, M.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(4) (pp. 4678-4682)


Pulsation-triggered dust production by asymptotic giant branch stars (2018)
McDonald, I.; De Beck, E.; Zijlstra, A. A. and Lagadec, E.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481(4) (pp. 4984-4999)


Fundamental parameters and infrared excesses of Tycho–Gaia stars (2017)
McDonald, I.; Zijlstra, A. A. and Watson, R. A.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471(1) (pp. 770-791)


Mass-loss on the red giant branch: the value and metallicity dependence of Reimers’ η in globular clusters (2015)
McDonald, I. and Zijlstra, A. A.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 448(1) (pp. 502-521)


Globular cluster interstellar media: ionized and ejected by white dwarfs (2015)
McDonald, I. and Zijlstra, A. A.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446(3) (pp. 2226-2242)


ALMA reveals sunburn: CO dissociation around AGB stars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (2015)
McDonald, I.; Zijlstra, A. A.; Lagadec, E.; Sloan, G. C.; Boyer, M. L.; Matsuura, M.; Smith, R. J.; Smith, C. L.; Yates, J. A.; van Loon, J. Th.; Jones, O. C.; Ramstedt, S.; Avison, A.; Justtanont, K.; Olofsson, H.; Blommaert, J. A. D. L.; Goldman, S. R. and Groenewegen, M. A. T.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(4) (pp. 4325-4337)