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James Nightingale

Academic Visitor

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Affiliation
Academic Visitor in the Department of Physics

Publications

Journal Article

  • Lopsidedness in early-type galaxies: the role of the m = 1 multipole in isophote fitting and strong lens modelling
    Amvrosiadis, A., Nightingale, J. W., He, Q., Robertson, A., Lange, S., Frenk, C. S., Cole, S., Massey, R., & Poci, A. (2025). Lopsidedness in early-type galaxies: the role of the m = 1 multipole in isophote fitting and strong lens modelling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 540(4), 3281-3288. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf857
  • Galaxy mass modelling from multiwavelength JWST strong lens analysis: dark matter substructure, angular mass complexity, or both?
    Lange, S. C., Amvrosiadis, A., Nightingale, J. W., He, Q., Frenk, C. S., Robertson, A., Cole, S., Massey, R., Cao, X., Li, R., & Wang, K. (2025). Galaxy mass modelling from multiwavelength JWST strong lens analysis: dark matter substructure, angular mass complexity, or both? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 539(2), 704-726. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf491
  • The COSMOS-Web ring: Spectroscopic confirmation of the background source at z = 5.1
    Shuntov, M., Jin, S., Mercier, W., Kartaltepe, J. S., Larson, R., Khostovan, A. A., Gavazzi, R., Nightingale, J. W., Ilbert, O., Arango-Toro, R., Franco, M., Akins, H. B., Casey, C. M., McCracken, H. J., Ciesla, L., Magdis, G. E., Amvrosiadis, A., Enia, A., Faisst, A. L., … Vaccari, M. (2025). The COSMOS-Web ring: Spectroscopic confirmation of the background source at z = 5.1. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 696, Article L14. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202554273
  • The kinematics of massive high-redshift dusty star-forming galaxies
    Amvrosiadis, 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 ∼ 3.8
    Amvrosiadis, 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 galaxy
    Barone, T. M., Kacprzak, G. G., Nightingale, J. W., Nielsen, N. M., Glazebrook, K., Tran, K. 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 lensing
    He, 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 ∼ 2
    Mercier, 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 shear
    Etherington, A., Nightingale, J., Massey, R., Tam, S., 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 lensing
    Etherington, 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 Spectroscopy
    Zhuang, 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. 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 lens
    Nightingale, 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 simulation
    He, 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 & Morphology
    Nightingale, 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 Models
    Nightingale, 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 subhaloes
    He, 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 iPTF16geu
    Diego, 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 lenses
    He, 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
  • Systematic Errors Induced by the Elliptical Power-law model in Galaxy–Galaxy Strong Lens Modeling
    Cao, 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
  • Halo concentration strengthens dark matter constraints in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing analyses
    Amorisco, 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
  • PyAutoLens: Open-Source Strong Gravitational Lensing
    Nightingale, 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