Royal Observatory

Recent papers from Royal Observatory

1. Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). Refining the strong lens sample with Space Warps crowd-sourced science2026
2. Hi intensity mapping with MeerKAT: A measurement of the 21-cm auto-spectrum on cosmological scalesMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
3. Extracting intrinsic alignments in the Dark Energy Survey’s year 1 data, using the self-calibration method and LSST-DESC toolsMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
4. 1000 cataclysmic variables identified from DESI spectroscopyMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
5. An HST survey of photometry and multiplicity of brown dwarfs and planetary-mass objects in the field of TaurusMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
6. A clear detection of proper motion confirms that the claimed z ≃ 32 galaxy candidate, “Capotauro”, is a Y-type brown dwarfMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
7. Triaxiality of the Milky Way dark matter halo and the microlensing optical depth towards the Large Magellanic CloudMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
8. The DESIRED strong-line calibrations: I. New empirical metallicity relations for the local and high-redshift universeMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
9. Improved constraints on the Milky Way potential using the M68 stream and DESI spectroscopic dataMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
10. JWST observations of the planetary nebula NGC 6302 IV: PAH spectral characteristics, formation and evolutionMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
11. A MIGHTEE robust measurement of the star formation rate – radio correlationMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
12. Galaxy bias of radio AGN and star-forming galaxies from MIGHTEE and CMB lensingMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
13. The connection between massive galaxies and their dark matter haloes from z = 0.25 to z ∼ 4 from the combined COSMOS, XMM-LSS and ECDF-S fieldsMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
14. Astrophysical Parameters of 5056 Open Star Clusters from Bayesian Nested Sampling with PARSEC IsochronesMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
15. A possible detection of gas rotation in galaxy groups via the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effectMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
16. Characterising the Globular Cluster Systems of Three Local Group Dwarf Galaxies: NGC 6822, NGC 147 and NGC 185Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
17. The DESI Data Release 1 white dwarf catalogueMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
18. Clustering effects on the Dark Siren determination of H 0: A simulation studyMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
19. The solitary star cluster of the Andromeda XXV dwarf spheroidalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2026
20. Euclid preparationAstronomy and Astrophysics · 2026