Alan W. McConnachie

Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics — Canada

Physics and Astronomy · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies(247), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research(236), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena(149), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies(79), Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation(61)

Publications376 total

Bright region reset: an on-detector strategy for minimizing the impacts of atmospheric emission lines on spectral observations
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems·2025Open Access
Unions with UNIONS: Using Galaxy–Galaxy Lensing to Probe Galaxy Mergers
The Astrophysical Journal·2025Open Access
Cosmology from UNIONS weak lensing profiles of galaxy clusters
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
A Pristine-UNIONS view on the Galaxy: Kinematics of the distant spur feature of the Sagittarius stream traced by blue horizontal branch stars
Astronomy and Astrophysics·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Galaxy–point spread function correlations as a probe of weak-lensing systematics with UNIONS data
Astronomy and Astrophysics·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Low surface brightness structures from annotated deep CFHT images: effects of the host galaxy’s properties and environment
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
GHOST Commissioning Science Results. IV. Chemodynamical Analyses of Milky Way Satellites Sagittarius II and Aquarius II
The Astrophysical Journal·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Accreted Globular Clusters and Horizontal Branch Morphology in the Outer Halo of M31
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Accreted globular clusters and horizontal branch morphology in the outer halo of M31
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Galaxies OBserved as Low-luminosity Identified Nebulae (GOBLIN): Catalog of 43 000 high-probability dwarf galaxy candidates in the UNIONS survey
Astronomy and Astrophysics·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Mass modelling the Andromeda Dwarf Galaxies: Andromeda VI and Andromeda XXIII
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Deep in the Fields of the Andromeda Halo: Discovery of the Pegasus VII Dwarf Galaxy in UNIONS
The Astrophysical Journal·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
No Evidence of Asymmetrically Enhanced Star Formation in Infalling Galaxies in UNIONS
The Astrophysical Journal·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
No Evidence of Asymmetrically Enhanced Star Formation in Infalling Galaxies in UNIONS
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Deep in the Fields of the Andromeda Halo: Discovery of the Pegasus VII dwarf galaxy in UNIONS
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
The Secondary Component of the Extremely Low Mass Ratio Massive Binary HD 165246 Revealed by GHOST
The Astrophysical Journal·2025Open Access
Unions with UNIONS: Using galaxy-galaxy lensing to probe galaxy mergers
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
The Hubble Space Telescope Survey of M31 Satellite Galaxies. IV. Survey Overview and Lifetime Star Formation Histories
The Astrophysical Journal·2025· 11 citedOpen Access
Galaxy-Point Spread Function correlations as a probe of weak-lensing systematics with UNIONS data
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
Point spread function errors for weak lensing – density cross-correlations
Astronomy and Astrophysics·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Rodrigo Ibata(28), M. J. Irwin(26), Geraint F. Lewis(25), A. M. N. Ferguson(19), S. C. Chapman(19), N. R. Tanvir(18), Nicolas F. Martin(17), Julio F. Navarro(12), Patrick Côté(10), Jorge Peñarrubia(10), Dougal Mackey(9), Kim A. Venn(9), Mark A. Fardal(8), Stephen Gwyn(8), Edouard J. Bernard(8), R. Michael Rich(7), Else Starkenburg(7), Michelle Collins(6), Avon Huxor(6), Jean‐Charles Cuillandre(6)