Publications

First Author 

James M Dawson, Timothy A Davis, and Edward L Gomez. Modelling the Tully-Fisher relation from the largest IFU surveys using self-supervised learning. 2021 - in prep.

James M Dawson, Timothy A Davis, Edward L Gomez, and Justus Schock. A Self-supervised, Physics-aware, Bayesian Neural Network architecture for modelling galaxy kinematics in preparation for the SKA. 2021 - MNRAS accepted.

James M. Dawson , Timothy A. Davis, Edward L. Gomez, Justus Schock, Nikki Zabel, and Thomas G. Williams (2019). Using machine learning to study the kinematics of cold gas in galaxies. MNRAS accepted.

Co-Author 

Oleg M. Smirnov, Aaron Golden, Talon Myburgh, Buntu Ngcebetsha, Cyril Tasse, Ian Heywood, AthanaseusJ. T. Ramaila, Mark A. Thompson, Jonathan S. Kenyon, Simon J. Perkins, James Dawson, Hertzog L. Bester,Joe S. Bright, Nadeem Oozeer, Victoria G. G. Samboco, Isaac Sihlangu, and Carmen Choza. Mining the timeaxis with tron. ii. meerkat detects a stellar radio flare from a distant rs cvn candidate, 2025.

Oleg M. Smirnov, Ian Heywood, Marisa Geyer, Talon Myburgh, Cyril Tasse, Jonathan S. Kenyon, Simon J.Perkins, James Dawson, Hertzog L. Bester, Joe S. Bright, Buntu Ngcebetsha, Nadeem Oozeer, VictoriaG. G. Samboco, Isaac Sihlangu, Carmen Choza, and Andrew P. V. Siemion. Mining the time axis with tron.i. millisecond pulsars in omega centauri, terzan 5 and 47 tucanae detected through meerkat interferometric imaging, 2025.

Izzy L Garland, Mike Walmsley, Maddie S Silcock, Leah M Potts, Josh Smith, Brooke D Simmons, Chris JLintott, Rebecca J Smethurst, James M Dawson, William C Keel, Sandor Kruk, Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha, Karen L Masters, David O’Ryan, J¨urgen J Popp, and Matthew R Thorne. Galaxy zoo desi: large-scale bars as a secular mechanism for triggering agns. MNRAS, July 2024, 532(2):2320–2330

Jürgen J. Popp, Hugh Dickinson, Stephen Serjeant, Mike Walmsley, Dominic Adams, Kameswara Mantha, Vihang Mehta and James Dawson. Transfer learning for galaxy feature detection: Finding Giant Star-forming Clumps in low redshift galaxies using Faster R-CNN. RAS Techniques and Instruments, April 2024, 3(1):174–197

Mike Walmsley, Tobias Géron, Sandor Kruk, Anna M. M. Scaife, Chris Lintott, Karen L. Masters, James M. Dawson, Hugh Dickinson, Lucy Fortson, Izzy L. Garland, Kameswara Mantha, David O’Ryan, Jürgen Popp, Brooke Simmons, Elisabeth M. Baeten, Christine Macmillan. Galaxy Zoo DESI: Detailed Morphology Measurements for 8.7M Galaxies in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. MNRAS, Volume 526, Issue 3, December 2023, Pages 4768–4786 .

Nikolaos Nikolaou, Ingo P. Waldmann, and James M Dawson et al. Lessons Learned from the 1st ARIEL Machine Learning Challenge: Correcting Transiting Exoplanet Light Curves for Stellar Spots. RAS Techniques and Instruments, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 695–709.

Timothy A. Davis, Nikki Zabel, and James M Dawson.  KinMS: Three-dimensional kinematic modelling of arbitrary gas distributions. page ascl:2006.003, June 2020

Timothy A. Davis, Jenny E. Greene, Chung-Pei Ma, John P. Blakeslee, James M. Dawson, Viraj Pandya, Melanie Veale and Nikki Zabel (2019). The MASSIVE survey – XI. What drives the molecular gas properties of early-type galaxies. MNRAS, Volume 486, Issue 1, June 2019, Pages 1404–1423