Staff profile
Overview
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James Nightingale
Academic Visitor
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Academic Visitor in the Department of Physics |
Publications
Journal Article
- The kinematics of massive high-redshift dusty star-forming galaxiesAmvrosiadis, A., Wardlow, J. L., Birkin, J. E., Smail, I., Swinbank, A. M., Nightingale, J., Bertoldi, F., Brandt, W. N., Casey, C. M., Chapman, S. C., Chen, C. C., Cox, P., da Cunha, E., Dannerbauer, H., Dudzevičiūte, U., Gullberg, B., Hodge, J. A., Knudsen, K. K., Menten, K., … van der Werf, P. (2025). The kinematics of massive high-redshift dusty star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536(4), 3757-3783. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae2760
- The onset of bar formation in a massive galaxy at z ∼ 3.8Amvrosiadis, A., Lange, S., Nightingale, J. W., He, Q., Frenk, C. S., Oman, K. A., Smail, I., Swinbank, A. M., Fragkoudi, F., Gadotti, D. A., Cole, S., Borsato, E., Robertson, A., Massey, R., Cao, X., & Li, R. (2025). The onset of bar formation in a massive galaxy at z ∼ 3.8. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 537(2), 1163-1181. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf048
- Gravitational lensing reveals cool gas within 10-20 kpc around a quiescent galaxyBarone, T. M., Kacprzak, G. G., Nightingale, J. W., Nielsen, N. M., Glazebrook, K., Tran, K.-V. H., Jones, T., Nateghi, H., Vasan Gopala Chandrasekaran, K., Sahu, N., Nanayakkara, T., Skobe, H., van de Sande, J., Lopez, S., & Lewis, G. F. (2024). Gravitational lensing reveals cool gas within 10-20 kpc around a quiescent galaxy. Communications Physics, 7(1), Article 286. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-024-01778-4
- Unveiling lens light complexity with a novel multi-Gaussian expansion approach for strong gravitational lensingHe, Q., Nightingale, J. W., Amvrosiadis, A., Robertson, A., Cole, S., Frenk, C. S., Massey, R., Li, R., Cao, X., Lange, S. C., & França, J. P. C. (2024). Unveiling lens light complexity with a novel multi-Gaussian expansion approach for strong gravitational lensing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(2), 2441-2462. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1577
- The COSMOS-Web ring: In-depth characterization of an Einstein ring lensing system at z ∼ 2Mercier, W., Shuntov, M., Gavazzi, R., Nightingale, J. W., Arango, R., Ilbert, O., Amvrosiadis, A., Ciesla, L., Casey, C. M., Jin, S., Faisst, A. L., Andika, I. T., Drakos, N. E., Enia, A., Franco, M., Gillman, S., Gozaliasl, G., Hayward, C. C., Huertas-Company, M., … Vijayan, A. P. (2024). The COSMOS-Web ring: In-depth characterization of an Einstein ring lensing system at z ∼ 2. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 687, Article A61. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202348095
- Strong gravitational lensing’s ‘external shear’ is not shearEtherington, A., Nightingale, J., Massey, R., Tam, S.-I., Cao, X., Niemiec, A., He, Q., Robertson, A., Li, R., Amvrosiadis, A., Cole, S., Diego, J., Frenk, C., Frye, B., Harvey, D., Jauzac, M., Koekemoer, A., Lagattuta, D., Lange, S., … Steinhardt, C. (2024). Strong gravitational lensing’s ‘external shear’ is not shear. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531(3), 3684-3697. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1375
- Beyond the bulge–halo conspiracy? Density profiles of early-type galaxies from extended-source strong lensingEtherington, A., Nightingale, J. W., Massey, R., Robertson, A., Cao, X., Amvrosiadis, A., Cole, S., Frenk, C. S., He, Q., Lagattuta, D. J., Lange, S., & Li, R. (2023). Beyond the bulge–halo conspiracy? Density profiles of early-type galaxies from extended-source strong lensing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(4), 6005-6018. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad582
- A Glimpse of the Stellar Populations and Elemental Abundances of Gravitationally Lensed, Quiescent Galaxies at z ≳ 1 with Keck Deep SpectroscopyZhuang, Z., Leethochawalit, N., Kirby, E. N., Nightingale, J. W., Steidel, C. C., Glazebrook, K., Barone, T. M., Skobe, H., Sweet, S. M., Nanayakkara, T., Allen, R. J., G. C., K. V., Jones, T., Kacprzak, G. G., Tran, K.-V. H., & Jacobs, C. (2023). A Glimpse of the Stellar Populations and Elemental Abundances of Gravitationally Lensed, Quiescent Galaxies at z ≳ 1 with Keck Deep Spectroscopy. The Astrophysical Journal, 948(2), Article 132. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc79b
- Abell 1201: detection of an ultramassive black hole in a strong gravitational lensNightingale, J., Smith, R. J., He, Q., O’Riordan, C. M., Kegerreis, J. A., Amvrosiadis, A., Edge, A. C., Etherington, A., Hayes, R. G., Kelly, A., Lucey, J. R., & Massey, R. J. (2023). Abell 1201: detection of an ultramassive black hole in a strong gravitational lens. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(3), 3298-3322. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad587
- Testing strong lensing subhalo detection with a cosmological simulationHe, Q., Nightingale, J., Robertson, A., Amvrosiadis, A., Cole, S., Frenk, C. S., Massey, R., Li, R., Amorisco, N. C., Metcalf, R. B., Cao, X., & Etherington, A. (2023). Testing strong lensing subhalo detection with a cosmological simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 518(1), 220-239. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2779
- PyAutoGalaxy: Open-Source Multiwavelength Galaxy Structure & MorphologyNightingale, J. W., Amvrosiadis, A., Hayes, R. G., He, Q., Etherington, A., Cao, X., Cole, S., Frawley, J., Frenk, C. S., Lange, S., Li, R., Massey, R. J., Negrello, M., & Robertson, A. (2023). PyAutoGalaxy: Open-Source Multiwavelength Galaxy Structure & Morphology. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(81), Article 4475. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04475
- The “External” Shears In Strong Lens ModelsNightingale, J. W., Etherington, A., & Massey, R. (2022). The “External” Shears In Strong Lens Models. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 18(S381), 13-16. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743921323003691
- Galaxy–galaxy strong lens perturbations: line-of-sight haloes versus lens subhaloesHe, Q., Li, R., Frenk, C. S., Nightingale, J., Cole, S., Amorisco, N. C., Massey, R., Robertson, A., Etherington, A., Amvrosiadis, A., & Cao, X. (2022). Galaxy–galaxy strong lens perturbations: line-of-sight haloes versus lens subhaloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(4), 5862-5873. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac759
- Microlensing and the type Ia supernova iPTF16geuDiego, J., Bernstein, G., Chen, W., Goobar, A., Johansson, J., Kelly, P., Mörtsell, E., & Nightingale, J. (2022). Microlensing and the type Ia supernova iPTF16geu. Astronomy and Astrophysics., 662, Article A34. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202143009
- A forward-modelling method to infer the dark matter particle mass from strong gravitational lensesHe, Q., Robertson, A., Nightingale, J., Cole, S., Frenk, C. S., Massey, R., Amvrosiadis, A., Li, R., Cao, X., & Etherington, A. (2022). A forward-modelling method to infer the dark matter particle mass from strong gravitational lenses. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511(2), 3046-3062. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac191
- Halo concentration strengthens dark matter constraints in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing analysesAmorisco, N. C., Nightingale, J., He, Q., Amvrosiadis, A., Cao, X., Cole, S., Etherington, A., Frenk, C. S., Li, R., Massey, R., & Robertson, A. (2022). Halo concentration strengthens dark matter constraints in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing analyses. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510, 2464-2479. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3527
- Systematic Errors Induced by the Elliptical Power-law model in Galaxy–Galaxy Strong Lens ModelingCao, X., Li, R., Nightingale, J., Massey, R., Robertson, A., Frenk, C. S., Amvrosiadis, A., Amorisco, N. C., He, Q., Etherington, A., Cole, S., & Zhu, K. (2022). Systematic Errors Induced by the Elliptical Power-law model in Galaxy–Galaxy Strong Lens Modeling. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 22(2). https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-4527/ac3f2b
- PyAutoLens: Open-Source Strong Gravitational LensingNightingale, J., Hayes, R., Kelly, A., Amvrosiadis, A., Etherington, A., He, Q., Li, N., Cao, X., Frawley, J., Cole, S., Enia, A., Frenk, C., Harvey, D., Li, R., Massey, R., Negrello, M., & Robertson, A. (2021). PyAutoLens: Open-Source Strong Gravitational Lensing. The Journal of Open Source Software, 6(58), Article 2825. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02825