Staff profile

Chapter in book

• Chevance, M., Krumholz, M., McLeod, A., Ostriker, E., Rosolowsky, E., & Sternberg, A. The Life and Times of Giant Molecular Clouds. In S. Inutsuka, Y. Aikawa, T. Muto, K. TOmida, & M. Tamura (Eds.), Protostars and Planets VII. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2203.09570

Conference Paper

• Thatte, N. A., Melotte, D., Neichel, B., Le Mignant, D., Rees, P., Clarke, F., Ferraro-Wood, V., Gonzalez, O., Jones, M., Álvarez Urueña, A., Vilaseca, H., Arribas Mocoroa, S., Caballero, J. A., Carracedo Carballal, G. J., Estrada Piqueras, A., Ferro, I., García García, M., Lamperti, I., Pereira Santaella, M., Perna, M., …York, A. (2024, June). HARMONI at ELT: project status and instrument overview. Presented at Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X, Yokohama, Japan

Journal Article

• Reiter, M., McLeod, A. F., Itrich, D., & Klaassen, P. D. (2025). Into the Mystic: the MUSE view of the ionized gas in the Mystic Mountains in Carina. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537(4), 3009-3026. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf193
• Reichardt Chu, B., Fisher, D. B., Chisholm, J., Berg, D., Bolatto, A., Cameron, A. J., Fielding, D. B., Herrera-Camus, R., Kacprzak, G. G., Li, M., McLeod, A. F., McPherson, D. K., Nielsen, N. M., Rickards Vaught, R. J., Ridolfo, S. G., & Sandstrom, K. (2025). DUVET: sub-kiloparsec resolved star formation driven outflows in a sample of local starbursting disc galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536(2), 1799-1821. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2705
• Webb, T. L., Rodriguez, J. A., Lopez, L. A., Rosen, A. L., Lancaster, L., Nayak, O., McLeod, A. F., Pandey, P., & Olivier, G. M. (2024). Detection of Diffuse Hot Gas around the Young, Potential Superstar Cluster H72.97–69.39. The Astrophysical Journal, 977(1), Article 45. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad8c41
• Aru, M.-L., Maucó, K., Manara, C. F., Haworth, T. J., Ballering, N., Boyden, R., Campbell-White, J., Facchini, S., Rosotti, G. P., Winter, A., Miotello, A., McLeod, A. F., Robberto, M., Petr-Gotzens, M. G., Ballabio, G., Vicente, S., Ansdell, M., & Cleeves, L. I. (2024). A tell-tale tracer for externally irradiated protoplanetary disks: Comparing the [C I] 8727 Å line and ALMA observations in proplyds. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 692, Article A137. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202451737
• Zheng, Y., Tchernyshyov, K., Olsen, K., Choi, Y., Bustard, C., Roman-Duval, J., Zhu, R., Di Teodoro, E. M., Werk, J., Putman, M., McLeod, A. F., Faerman, Y., Simons, R. C., & Peek, J. (2024). Braving the Storm: Quantifying Disk-wide Ionized Outflows in the Large Magellanic Cloud with ULLYSES. The Astrophysical Journal, 974(1), 22. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad64d2
• Chastenet, J., De Looze, I., Relaño, M., Dale, D. A., Williams, T. G., Bianchi, S., Xilouris, E. M., Baes, M., Bolatto, A. D., Boyer, M. L., Casasola, V., Clark, C. J. R., Fraternali, F., Fritz, J., Galliano, F., Glover, S. C. O., Gordon, K. D., Hirashita, H., Kennicutt, R., Nagamine, K., …Wood, K. (2024). JWST MIRI and NIRCam observations of NGC 891 and its circumgalactic medium. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 690, Article A348. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202451033
• Aru, M.-L., Maucó, K., Manara, C. F., Haworth, T. J., Facchini, S., McLeod, A. F., Miotello, A., Petr-Gotzens, M. G., Robberto, M., Rosotti, G. P., Vicente, S., Winter, A., & Ansdell, M. (2024). Kaleidoscope of irradiated disks: MUSE observations of proplyds in the Orion Nebula Cluster: I. Sample presentation and ionization front sizes. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 687, Article A93. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202349004
• Hamel-Bravo, M. J., Fisher, D. B., Berg, D., Björgvinsson, B., Bolatto, A. D., Cameron, A. J., Chisholm, J., Fielding, D. B., Herrera-Camus, R., Kacprzak, G. G., Li, M., Ciraulo, B. M., McLeod, A. F., McPherson, D. K., Nielsen, N. M., Reichardt Chu, B., Vaught, R. J. R., & Sandstrom, K. (2024). DUVET: Resolved direct metallicity measurements in the outflow of starburst galaxy NGC 1569. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 530(4), 3855-3869. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae983
• McLeod, A. F., Fattahi, A., Belfiore, F., Rowland, L. E., Cresci, G., Hunt, L., Krumholz, M., Kumari, N., Marasco, A., & Venturi, G. (2024). Pre-supernova stellar feedback in nearby starburst dwarf galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 685, Article A46. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202348029
• Itrich, D., Testi, L., Beccari, G., Manara, C. F., Reiter, M., Preibisch, T., McLeod, A. F., Rosotti, G., Klessen, R., Molinari, S., & Hennebelle, P. (2024). The population of young low-mass stars in Trumpler 14. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 685, Article A100. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347380
• McLeod, A. F., Klaassen, P. D., Reiter, M., Henshaw, J., Kuiper, R., & Ginsburg, A. (2024). A probable Keplerian disk feeding an optically revealed massive young star. Nature, 625, 55-59. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06790-2
• Reiter, M., Haworth, T. J., Manara, C. F., Ramsay, S., Klaassen, P. D., Itrich, D., & McLeod, A. F. (2024). Illuminating evaporating protostellar outflows: ERIS/SPIFFIER reveals the dissociation and ionization of HH 900. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527(2), 3220–3230. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3304
• Ramírez-Tannus, M. C., Bik, A., Cuijpers, L., Waters, R., Göppl, C., Henning, T., Kamp, I., Preibisch, T., Getman, K. V., Chaparro, G., Cuartas-Restrepo, P., de Koter, A., Feigelson, E. D., Grant, S. L., Haworth, T. J., Hernández, S., Kuhn, M. A., Perotti, G., Povich, M. S., Reiter, M., …van Terwisga, S. E. (2023). XUE: Molecular Inventory in the Inner Region of an Extremely Irradiated Protoplanetary Disk. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 958(2), Article L30. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad03f8
• Reiter, M., Klaassen, P. D., Moser-Fischer, L., McLeod, A. F., & Itrich, D. (2023). Into the Mystic: ALMA ACA observations of the Mystic Mountains in Carina. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526(1), 717–739. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2750
• Teh, J. W., Grasha, K., Krumholz, M. R., Battisti, A. J., Calzetti, D., Rousseau-Nepton, L., Rhea, C., Adamo, A., Kennicutt, R. C., Grebel, E. K., Cook, D. O., Combes, F., Messa, M., Linden, S. T., Klessen, R. S., Vilchez, J. M., Fumagalli, M., McLeod, A., Smith, L. J., Chemin, L., …Boselli, A. (2023). Constraining the LyC escape fraction from LEGUS star clusters with SIGNALS H ii region observations: a pilot study of NGC 628. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(1), 1191-1210. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1780
• Kirwan, A., Manara, C. F., Whelan, E. T., Robberto, M., McLeod, A. F., Facchini, S., Beccari, G., Miotello, A., Schneider, P. C., Murphy, A., & Vicente, S. (2023). A spectacular jet from the bright 244–440 Orion proplyd: The MUSE NFM view. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 673, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245428
• Marasco, A., Belfiore, F., Cresci, G., Lelli, F., Hunt, L., Concas, A., Marconi, A., Mannucci, F., Mingozzi, M., McLeod, A., Kumari, N., Carniani, S., Vanzi, L., & Ginolfi, L. (2023). Shaken, not blown: the gentle baryonic feedback of nearby starburst dwarf galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 670, Article A92. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244895
• Hunt, L. K., Belfiore, F., Lelli, F., Draine, B. T., Marasco, A., García-Burillo, S., Venturi, G., Combes, F., Weiß, A., Henkel, C., Menten, K. M., Annibali, F., Casasola, V., Cignoni, M., McLeod, A., Tosi, M., Beltrán, M., Concas, A., Cresci, G., Ginolfi, M., …Mannucci, F. (2023). Gas, dust, and the CO-to-molecular gas conversion factor in low-metallicity starbursts. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 675, Article A64. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202245805
• Geen, S., Agrawal, P., Crowther, P. A., Keller, B., de Koter, A., Keszthelyi, Z., van de Voort, F., Ali, A. A., Backs, F., Bonne, L., Brugaletta, V., Derkink, A., Ekström, S., Fichtner, Y. A., Grassitelli, L., Götberg, Y., Higgins, E. R., Laplace, E., You Liow, K., Lorenzo, M., …Winch, E. (2023). Bringing Stellar Evolution and Feedback Together: Summary of Proposals from the Lorentz Center Workshop. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 135(1044), Article 021001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/acb6b5
• Rhea, C. L., Rousseau-Nepton, L., Moumen, I., Prunet, S., Hlavacek-Larrondo, J., Grasha, K., Robert, C., Morisset, C., Stasinska, G., Vale-Asari, N., Giroux, J., McLeod, A., Gendron-Marsolais, M.-L., Wang, J., Lyman, J., & Chemin, L. (2023). A machine learning approach to galactic emission-line region classification. RAS Techniques and Instruments, 2(1), 345-359. https://doi.org/10.1093/rasti/rzad023
• Gull, M., Weisz, D. R., Senchyna, P., Sandford, N. R., Choi, Y., McLeod, A. F., El-Badry, K., Götberg, Y., Gilbert, K. M., Boyer, M., Dalcanton, J. J., GuhaThakurta, P., Goldman, S., Marigo, P., McQuinn, K. B. W., Pastorelli, G., Stark, D. P., Skillman, E., Ting, Y.-S., & Williams, B. F. (2022). A Panchromatic Study of Massive Stars in the Extremely Metal-poor Local Group Dwarf Galaxy Leo A*. Astrophysical Journal, 941(2), Article 206. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aca295
• Long, K. S., Blair, W. P., Winkler, P. F., Della Bruna, L., Adamo, A., McLeod, A. F., & Amram, P. (2022). Supernova Remnants in M83 as Observed with MUSE. Astrophysical Journal, 929(2), Article 144. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac5aa3
• Della Bruna, L., Adamo, A., Amram, P., Rosolowsky, E., Usher, C., Sirressi, M., Schruba, A., Emsellem, E., Leroy, A., Bik, A., Blair, W. P., McLeod, A. F., Östlin, G., Renaud, F., Robert, C., Rousseau-Nepton, L., & Smith, L. J. (2022). Stellar feedback in M83 as observed with MUSE: I. Overview, an unprecedented view of the stellar and gas kinematics and evidence of outflowing gas. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 660, Article A77. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142315
• Hassani, H., Tabatabaei, F., Hughes, A., Chastenet, J., McLeod, A., Schinnerer, E., & Nasiri, S. (2022). The role of thermal and non-thermal processes in the ISM of the Magellanic Clouds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(1), 11-31. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3202
• Della Bruna, L., Adamo, A., McLeod, A. F., Smith, L. J., Savard, G., Robert, C., Sun, J., Amram, P., Bik, A., Blair, W. P., Long, K. S., Renaud, F., Walterbos, R., & Usher, C. (2022). Stellar feedback in M 83 as observed with MUSE II. Analysis of the H II region population: Ionisation budget and pre-SN feedback. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 666, Article A29. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243395
• Barnes, A., Chandar, R., Kreckel, K., Glover, S., Scheuermann, F., Belfiore, F., Bigiel, F., Blanc, G., Boquien, M., den Brok, J., Congiu, E., Chevance, M., Dale, D., Deger, S., Kruijssen, J., Egorov, O., Eibensteiner, C., Emsellem, E., Grasha, K., Groves, B., …Williams, T. (2022). Linking stellar populations to H II regions across nearby galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 662, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243766
• McLeod, A. F., Ali, A. A., Chevance, M., Bruna, L. D., Schruba, A., Stevance, H. F., Adamo, A., Kruijssen, J. D., Longmore, S. N., Weisz, D. R., & Zeidler, P. (2021). The impact of pre-supernova feedback and its dependence on environment. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(4), 5425-5448. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2726
• Zeidler, P., Sabbi, E., Nota, A., & McLeod, A. F. (2021). The Young Massive Star Cluster Westerlund 2 Observed with MUSE. III. A Cluster in Motion—The Complex Internal Dynamics. Astronomical Journal, 161(3), Article 140. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abd6ca
• Flagey, N., McLeod, A., Aguilar, L., & Prunet, S. (2020). Wide field-of-view study of the Eagle Nebula with the Fourier transform imaging spectrograph SITELLE at CFHT. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 635, Article A111. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833690
• Monguió, M., Greimel, R., Drew, J., Barentsen, G., Groot, P., Irwin, M., Casares, J., Gänsicke, B., Carter, P., Corral-Santana, J., Gentile-Fusillo, N., Greiss, S., van Haaften, L., Hollands, M., Jones, D., Kupfer, T., Manser, C., Murphy, D., McLeod, A., Oosting, T., …Zegmott, T. (2020). IGAPS: the merged IPHAS and UVEX optical surveys of the northern Galactic plane. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 638, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937333
• Reiter, M., Haworth, T. J., Guzmán, A. E., Klaassen, P. D., McLeod, A. F., & Garay, G. (2020). Illuminating a tadpole’s metamorphosis III: quantifying past and present environmental impact. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 497(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2156
• Stevance, H., Eldridge, J., McLeod, A., Stanway, E., & Chrimes, A. (2020). A systematic ageing method I: H ii regions D118 and D119 in NGC 300. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2428
• Reiter, M., Guzmán, A. E., Haworth, T. J., Klaassen, P. D., McLeod, A. F., Garay, G., & Mottram, J. C. (2020). Illuminating a tadpole’s metamorphosis II: observing the ongoing transformation with ALMA. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 496(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1504
• McLeod, A. F., Kruijssen, J. D., Weisz, D. R., Zeidler, P., Schruba, A., Dalcanton, J. J., Longmore, S. N., Chevance, M., Faesi, C. M., & Byler, N. (2020). Stellar Feedback and Resolved Stellar IFU Spectroscopy in the Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 300. Astrophysical Journal, 891(1), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab6d63
• Reiter, M., McLeod, A. F., Klaassen, P. D., Guzmán, A. E., Dale, J., Mottram, J. C., & Garay, G. (2019). Illuminating the Tadpole’s metamorphosis – I. MUSE observations of a small globule in a sea of ionizing photons. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2752
• Rousseau-Nepton, L., Martin, R., Robert, C., Drissen, L., Amram, P., Prunet, S., Martin, T., Moumen, I., Adamo, A., Alarie, A., Barmby, P., Boselli, A., Bresolin, F., Bureau, M., Chemin, L., Fernandes, R., Combes, F., Crowder, C., Della Bruna, L., Duarte Puertas, S., …Vílchez, J. (2019). SIGNALS: I. Survey description. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2455
• Zeidler, P., Nota, A., Sabbi, E., Luljak, P., McLeod, A. F., Grebel, E. K., Pasquali, A., & Tosi, M. (2019). The Young Massive Star Cluster Westerlund 2 Observed with MUSE. II. MUSEpack—A Python Package to Analyze the Kinematics of Young Star Clusters. Astronomical Journal, 158(5), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab44bb
• Kruijssen, J. D., Schruba, A., Chevance, M., Longmore, S. N., Hygate, A. P., Haydon, D. T., McLeod, A. F., Dalcanton, J. J., Tacconi, L. J., & van Dishoeck, E. F. (2019). Fast and inefficient star formation due to short-lived molecular clouds and rapid feedback. Nature, 569(7757), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1194-3
• Klaassen, P., Reiter, M., McLeod, A., Mottram, J., Dale, J., & Gritschneder, M. (2019). Carina’s pillars of destruction: the view from ALMA. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3012
• Zeidler, P., Sabbi, E., Nota, A., Pasquali, A., Grebel, E. K., McLeod, A. F., Kamann, S., Tosi, M., Cignoni, M., & Ramsay, S. (2018). The Young Massive Star Cluster Westerlund 2 Observed with MUSE. I. First Results on the Cluster Internal Motion from Stellar Radial Velocities. Astronomical Journal, 156(5), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aae258
• McLeod, A., Dale, J., Evans, C., Ginsburg, A., Kruijssen, J., Pellegrini, E., Ramsay, S., & Testi, L. (2018). Feedback from massive stars at low metallicities: MUSE observations of N44 and N180 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2696
• McLeod, A. F., Reiter, M., Kuiper, R., Klaassen, P. D., & Evans, C. J. (2018). A parsec-scale optical jet from a massive young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Nature, 554(7692), https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25189
• Lin, Y., Liu, H. B., Li, D., Zhang, Z.-Y., Ginsburg, A., Pineda, J. E., Qian, L., Galván-Madrid, R., McLeod, A. F., Rosolowsky, E., Dale, J. E., Immer, K., Koch, E., Longmore, S., Walker, D., & Testi, L. (2016). CLOUD STRUCTURE OF GALACTIC OB CLUSTER-FORMING REGIONS FROM COMBINING GROUND- AND SPACE-BASED BOLOMETRIC OBSERVATIONS. Astrophysical Journal, 828(1), https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/828/1/32
• McLeod, A., Gritschneder, M., Dale, J., Ginsburg, A., Klaassen, P., Mottram, J., Preibisch, T., Ramsay, S., Reiter, M., & Testi, L. (2016). Connecting the dots: a correlation between ionizing radiation and cloud mass-loss rate traced by optical integral field spectroscopy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1864
• Mc Leod, A., Weilbacher, P., Ginsburg, A., Dale, J., Ramsay, S., & Testi, L. (2015). A nebular analysis of the central Orion nebula with MUSE. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2617
• McLeod, A., Dale, J., Ginsburg, A., Ercolano, B., Gritschneder, M., Ramsay, S., & Testi, L. (2015). The Pillars of Creation revisited with MUSE: gas kinematics and high-mass stellar feedback traced by optical spectroscopy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv680
• Weilbacher, P. M., Monreal-Ibero, A., Kollatschny, W., Ginsburg, A., McLeod, A. F., Kamann, S., Sandin, C., Palsa, R., Wisotzki, L., Bacon, R., Selman, F., Brinchmann, J., Caruana, J., Kelz, A., Martinsson, T., Pécontal-Rousset, A., Richard, J., & Wendt, M. (2015). A MUSE map of the central Orion Nebula (M 42). Astronomy & Astrophysics, 582, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526529
• Geier, S., Østensen, R., Heber, U., Kupfer, T., Maxted, P., Barlow, B., Vučković, M., Tillich, A., Müller, S., Edelmann, H., Classen, L., & McLeod, A. (2014). Orbital solutions of eight close sdB binaries and constraints on the nature of the unseen companions. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 562, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201323115
• Ohlendorf, H., Preibisch, T., Gaczkowski, B., Ratzka, T., Grellmann, R., & McLeod, A. (2012). Jet-driving protostars identified from infrared observations of the Carina Nebula complex. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 540, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201118181