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= 2024 = LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! = 2024 =

March 2024: New quasars behind the Magellanic Clouds. II. Spectroscopic confirmation of 136 near-infared-selected candidates, Ivanov V.D., Cioni M.-R.L., Dennefeld M., de Grijs R., Craig J.E.M., van Loon J.T., Pennock C., Maitra C., Haberl F., 2024, A&A, in press

26 March 2024: Australian Geographic attributed a few quotes on lunar eclipses to me despite not having been in touch in at least a year: What is a lunar eclipse?

March 2024: The GALAH survey: Tracing the Milky Way's formation and evolution through RR Lyrae stars, D'Orazi V., Storm N., Casey A.R., Braga V.F., Zocchi A., Bono G., Fabrizio M., Sneden C., Massari D., Giribaldi R.E., Bergemann M., Campbell S.W., Casagrande L., de Grijs R., De Silva G., Lugaro M., Zucker D.B., Bragaglia A., Feuillet D., Fiorentino G., Chaboyer B., Dall'Ora M., Marengo M., Martínez-Vázquez C.E., Matsunaga N., Monelli M., Mullen J.P., Nataf D., Tantalo M., Thevenin F., Vitello F.R., Kudritzki R.-P., Bland-Hawthorn J., Buder S., Freeman K., Kos J., Lewis G.F., Lind K., Martell S., Sharma S., Stello D., Zwitter T., 2024, MNRAS, submitted

March 2024: The Cosmology of David Bohm: Scientific and Theological Significance, de Grijs R., Costache D., 2024, Theology and Science, 22, 204; doi: 10.1080/14746700.2023.2294529

March 2024: William Dawes: Deep flaws and sparks of brilliance, de Grijs R., 2024, Hektoen International, Winter 2024 | History Essays

11 March 2024: I was featured on today's SpaceTime podcast with Stuart Gary: Weekly overview

March 2024: My proposal to write a biography of Samuel Ward Flinders, brother of Matthew Flinders and tasked with astronomical duties during H.M.S. Investigator's circumnavigation of Australia (1801--1803), has been approved for development by Routledge/Taylor & Francis/CRC Physics; it is provisionally subtitled The other Flinders, Astronomer by Necessity and due for delivery by September 2026

March 2024: Wigan's Queen of Spades, de Grijs R., 2024, Past Forward, in press; selected as a winning entry in the 2024 Barbara O'Neill Local History Writing Competition (Wigan, UK); competition link

February 2024: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines (Black hole "cannon fodder"), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, March 2024, pp. 39-43 (in Chinese; English version)

February 2024: At the crossroads of astrophysics and cosmology. Period--luminosity relations in the 2020s, de Grijs R., Whitelock, P. A., Catelan, M. (eds), 2024, Proc. IAU Symp. 376. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

  • China Space Station Telescope and Variable Star Studies, Chen X., Wang S., Deng L., de Grijs R., Zhou X., Chen X., Zhang J., 2024, Proc. IAU Symp. 376, eds de Grijs R., Whitelock P.A., Catelan M. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press), pp. 319--327
8 February 2024: I released Lunar New Year greetings (and an explanation of the prevailing mythology) in today's message to the ISSI-Beijing community.

February 2024: The GALAH survey: Elemental abundances in open clusters using joint effective temperature and surface gravity photometric priors, Beeson K.L., Kos J., de Grijs R., Traven G., Bland-Hawthorn J., Zafar T., Zwitter T., De Silva G.M., 2024, MNRAS, 529, 2483; arXiv:2402.07748

31 January 2024: A stargazer's guide to heavenly events in 2024: My recommendations for night-sky events to observe this year, published in Macquarie University's Lighthouse

January 2024: The VMC Survey. L. Type II Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds: Period--Luminosity relations in the near-infrared bands, Sicignano T., Ripepi V., Marconi M., Molinaro R., Bhardwaj A., Cioni M.-R.L., de Grijs R., Storm J., Groenewegen M.A.T., Ivanov V.D., De Somma G., 2023, A&A, in press; arXiv:2401.12770

19 January 2024: Japan is about to land its first lunar probe. As more nations race to the Moon, how will we keep the peace?, de Grijs R., 2024, The Conversation; article, 2SER The Daily interview

January 2024: The forgotten menace of long naval patrols, de Grijs R., 2024, Hektoen International, Winter 2024 | History Essays

January 2024: The grim horrors of the orlop deck, de Grijs R., 2024, Hektoen International, Winter 2024 | History Essays

December 2023: Extended Main Sequences in Star Clusters (review), Li C., Milone A.P., Sun W., de Grijs R., 2024, Fundamental Research, in press; arXiv:2401.08062

14 December 2023: Australian Associated Press story: "The one to watch": meteor shower to wow stargazers (see, for instance, the Canberra Times and many other outlets)

December 2023: "Filth so foul and stench so offensive as not to be imagined", de Grijs R., Hektoen International, Fall 2023 | History Essays

5 December 2023: Richard received the 2023 Excellence in Research Integrity Award (Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University)

December 2023: William Dawes -- Scientist, Governor, Abolitionist: Caught between science and religion, de Grijs R., Jacob A., 2023, Springer Biographies; eBook

News from previous years: 2023; 2022; 2021; 2020; 2019; 2018; 2017; 2016; 2015; 2014; 2013