Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society is one of the world's leading primary research journals in astronomy and astrophysics, as well as one of the longest established. It publishes the results of original research in positional and dynamical astronomy, astrophysics, radio astronomy, cosmology, space research and the design of astronomical instruments.

Editor-in-Chief
D.R. Flower
Department of Physics, University of Durham, UK
orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-9118-7488

Deputy Editor-in-Chief
A.R. King
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, UK
orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-2315-8228

The Board of Editors
P. Armitage
Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, USA

E. L. Athanassoula
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France

M.J. Barlow
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, UK
orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-3875-1171

O. M. Blaes
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-8082-4573

A.J. Bunker
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK

C. Cacciari
INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy
orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-5174-3179

R.F. Carswell
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK
orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-0185-1144

A. Collier Cameron
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, UK
orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-8863-7828

I. De Moortel
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, UK

J.E. Drew
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, UK
orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-1192-7082

M. Gieles
University of Barcelona, Spain

A.R. Liddle
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada

C. Maraston
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, UK

T. Murphy
Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Australia
orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-2686-438X

C.D. Murray
School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary, University of London
orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-9544-4469

T.J. Pearson
Astronomy Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-5213-6231

J. Schaye
Leiden Observatory,The Netherlands
orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-0668-5560

A. Sozzetti
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Italy

A.N. Taylor
Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, UK

M.J. Ward
Department of Physics, University of Durham, UK

A.L. Watts
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

S.D.M. White
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching bei München, Germany

R.A.M.J. Wijers
Astronomical Institute 'Anton Pannekoek', University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-3101-1808

D.M. Worrall
H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, UK
orcidhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-1516-0336