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= 2016 = LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS!
LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! = 2016 =
September 2016: Lick Indices and Spectral Energy
Distribution Analysis based on an M31 Star Cluster Sample: Comparisons of
Methods and Models, Fan Z., de Grijs R., Chen B.-Q., Jiang L., Bian F.,
Li Z., 2016, ApJS, submitted for publication
September 2016: Thirty Meter Telescope on track to
trick the Earth's atmosphere, de Grijs R., 2016, Physics World, submitted;
specially commissioned article about the TMT's adaptive optics system, to appear
in a special issue of
Physics World focused on Astronomy and Space Science
15 September 2016: Richard was interviewed for a feature
article on FAST and Chinese astrophysics, to appear in the Science section of the
Dutch newspaper
NRC Handelsblad; update:
article
(23 September 2016; in Dutch)
September 2016: New open cluster Cepheids in the VVV
survey tightly constrain near-infrared period-luminosity relations,
Chen X., de Grijs R., Deng L., 2016, MNRAS, accepted for publication!
arXiv:1609.05440
September 2016: Clustering of Local Group distances:
publication bias or correlated measurements? IV. The Galactic Center, de
Grijs R., Bono G., 2016, ApJS, submitted for publication
September 2016: The VMC Survey XXIII: Signatures
of tidally stripped stellar populations from the inner Small Magellanic
Cloud, Subramanian S., Rubele S., Sun N.-C., Girardi L., de Grijs R., van
Loon J.T., Cioni M.-R.L., Piatti A.E., Bekki K., Emerson J.P., Ivanov V.D.,
Kerber L., Marconi M., Ripepi V., Tatton B.L., 2016, MNRAS, submitted for
publication
September 2016: Contact Binaries as Viable Distance
Indicators: New, Competitive (V)JHKs Period-Luminosity
Relations, Chen X., de Grijs R., Deng L., 2016, ApJ, accepted for
publication!
arXiv:1609.02267
September 2016: Richard de Grijs has now officially
taken over the role as Honorary Editor of the
Journal of the
Royal Asiatic Society China
September 2016: Richard de Grijs was interviewed for
a feature article in
Physics World, special issue on China (September
2016),
Rise
of the physics powerhouse;
local copy
August 2016: Stellar populations in star clusters
(Review), Li C.-Y., de Grijs R., Deng L.-C., 2016, Res. Astron. Astrophys.,
accepted for publication!
arXiv:1609.00894
26 August 2016: First
steps taken towards degree-level astrophysics programme in Mongolia,
de Grijs R., Institute of Physics/IOP Life blog
August 2016: Gamma-ray burst progenitors
(Review), Levan A., Crowther P., de Grijs R., Langer N., Xu D., Yoon S.-C.,
2016, Space Sci. Rev., submitted for publication
17 August 2016: We just heard that our funding
application for an NSFC-CAS joint project,
"Stellar variability and
rotation provide unprecedented insights into the origins of Galactic
stellar populations", has been approved (CNY 500k, 2017-2019)
August 2016: Young star clusters in circumnuclear
starburst rings, de Grijs R., Ma C., Jia S., Ho L.C., Anders P., 2016, MNRAS,
submitted for publication
August 2016: AstroTalk: Behind the news
headlines of July 2016 (Visualizing dark energy), de Grijs R., The Amateur
Astronomer, September 2016, p. 20 (in Chinese;
English version)
August 2016: Taking your Science to 'the Public':
Meaningful Engagement with a General Audience, de Grijs R., Na J., 2016,
The Winnower, 3:e147079.95728;
doi:10.15200/winn.147079.95728
July 2016: Physical parameter study of eight W Ursae
Majoris-type contact binaries in NGC 188, Chen X., Deng L., de Grijs R.,
Zhang X.B., Xin Y., Wang K., Luo C.Q., Yan Z.Z., Tian J.F., Sun J.J., Liu Q.,
Zhou Q., Luo Z.Q., 2016, AJ, accepted for publication!
arXiv:1607.06152
16 July 2016: We just heard that our funding application
for an
NSFC Key Project, a joint project between the group of DENG Licai
(PI) at NAOC and my group at the KIAA, has been approved! This prestigious
award will give our group some much-needed financial breathing space and allow
appointment of one or more postdoctoral researchers. Excellent news!
2-23 July 2016: Richard is at a
writing
residency in Wales (UK) to make significant progress on his book in the
IOP Expanding
Physics series on the history of navigation in the 17
th
Century, a topic focussed predominantly on celestial mechanics
July 2016: First observational signature of rotational
deceleration in a massive, intermediate-age star cluster in the Magellanic Clouds,
Wu X.H., Li C., de Grijs R., Deng L., 2016, ApJL, 826, L14;
arXiv:1607.00491
June 2016: The VMC Survey XXII. Hierarchical star
formation in the 30 Doradus-N158-N159-N160 star-forming complex, Sun N.-C.,
de Grijs R., Subramanian S., Cioni M.-R.L., Rubele S., Bekki K., Ivanov V., Piatti
A.E., Ripepi V., 2016, ApJ, submitted for publication
June 2016: The tight sub-giant branch of the
intermediate-age star cluster NGC 411 implies a single-aged stellar population,
Li C., de Grijs R., Bastian N., Deng L., Niederhofer F., Zhang C., 2016, MNRAS,
461, 3212;
arXiv:1606.05394
June 2016: Richard de Grijs has been selected for a 2017
Erskine Award (University of
Canterbury, New Zealand), associated with a visit from 24 April to 9 June 2017
7 June 2016: Our group member, Chen Xiaodian,
successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis,
Open cluster variables as distance
tracers, on 7 June 2016
2 June 2016: Richard de Grijs was awarded a
Star
Guest Facilitator badge following his active role in facilitating the
AuthorAID Online Course in Research Writing (April-May 2016)
June 2016: AstroTalk: Behind the news
headlines of May 2016 (Supernovae and gravitational lensing: A match made in
heaven!), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, July 2016, p. 16 (in Chinese;
English version)
May 2016: Reproducibility in research: How a small
field is pioneering a culture of sharing, de Grijs R., 2016, The Winnower,
3:e146449.94380;
doi:10.15200/winn.146449.94380
23-27 May 2016: Richard de Grijs organised and chaired
the 2016 ISSI-BJ workshop on
Astronomical
Distance Determination in the Space Age
April 2016: AstroTalk: Behind the news
headlines of March 2016 (A stellar treasure chest of gold and other heavy
elements), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, May 2016, p. 16 (in Chinese;
English version)
March 2016: Book Review: China's tunnel vision, de Grijs R.,
June 2016,
Physics
World, p. 38; review of "From the Great Wall to the Great
Collider" (Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau); also published in Physics World
special
issue on China (September 2016)
March 2016: New quasars behind the Magellanic
Clouds. Spectroscopic confirmation of near-infrared-selected candidates,
Ivanov V.D., Cioni M.-R.L., Bekki K., de Grijs R., Emerson J., Gibson B.K.,
Kamath D., van Loon J.T., Piatti A.E., For B.-Q., 2016, A&A, 588, A93;
arXiv:1510.05504
March 2016: The VMC Survey. XX. Identification of
new Cepheids in the Small Magellanic Cloud, Moretti M.I., Clementini G.,
Ripepi V., Marconi M., Rubele S., Cioni M.-R.L., Muraveva T., Groenewegen M.A.T.,
Cross N.J.G., Ivanov V.D., Piatti A.E., de Grijs R., MNRAS, 459, 1687;
arXiv:1510.08522
March 2016: The human face
of early modern astronomy in China, de Grijs R., Journal of the Royal
Asiatic Society China, 2016, in press (English version of an article previously
published in Chinese in
The Amateur Astronomer; republished with permission)
February 2016: The VMC Survey. XIX. Classical Cepheids
in the Small Magellanic Cloud, Ripepi V., Marconi M., Moretti M.I.,
Clementini G., Cioni M.-R.L., de Grijs R., Emerson J.P., Groenewegen M.A.T.,
Ivanov V.D., Piatti A.E., 2016, ApJS, 224, 21;
arXiv:1602.09005
3 February 2016: Bringing
physics to the migrant children of China, de Grijs R., Institute of
Physics/IOP Life blog
February 2016: Elsevier has
announced
that Richard de Grijs is among the "most highly cited Chinese scholars in 2015",
a list of 1743 names that includes 87
faculty members at Peking University; see
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-1015-952996.html
or
http://news.sciencenet.cn/html/shownews.aspx?id=337415
February 2016: AstroTalk: Behind the news
headlines of January 2016 (Spinning stars giving up their secrets), de Grijs
R., The Amateur Astronomer, March 2016, p. 18 (in Chinese;
English version)
February 2016: The VMC survey - XVII. The proper motion
of the Small Magellanic Cloud and of the Milky Way globular cluster 47
Tucanae, Cioni M.-R.L., Bekki K., Girardi L., de Grijs R., Irwin M.J.,
Ivanov V.D., Marconi M., Oliveira J.M., Piatti A.E., Ripepi V., van Loon
J.T., 2016, A&A, 586, A77;
arXiv:1510.07647
February 2016: The human face of early modern
astronomy in China, de Grijs R., February 2016, The Amateur Astronomer,
p. 73
(in Chinese);
English version,
Chinese version
27 January 2016:
Stellar Parenting: Giant Star Clusters Make New Stars by 'Adopting' Stray
Cosmic Gases, Kavli Foundation press release about our
Letter to
Nature;
KIAA
release;
PKU
release;
NAOC
release;
PMO
release;
Northwestern
University release
January 2016: Formation of new stellar populations
from gas accreted by massive star clusters, Li C., de Grijs R., Deng L.,
Geller A.M., Xin Y., Hu Y., Faucher-Giguère C.-A., 2016,
Nature,
529, 502;
arXiv:1601.07296
January 2016: AstroTalk: Behind the news
headlines of November 2015 (New developments offer a boost to extragalactic
distance determination), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, January 2016, p. 24
(in Chinese;
English version)
January 2016: The star cluster mass-galactocentric
radius relation: Implications for cluster formation, Sun W., de Grijs
R., Fan Z., Cameron E., 2016, ApJ, 816, 9;
arXiv:1511.04490
28 December 2015: An in-depth interview with Richard de
Grijs appeared in
Future Magazine
(December 2015, p. 28)
17 December 2015: Richard de Grijs was awarded a
Star
Guest Facilitator badge following his active role in facilitating the
AuthorAID Online Course in Research Writing (October to November 2015)
News from previous years: 2015;
2014;
2013
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