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= 2020 = LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS!
LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! = 2020 =
November 2020: The VMC survey. XLI. Stellar proper
motions within the Small Magellanic Cloud, Niederhofer F., Cioni M.-R.L.,
Rubele S., Schmidt T., Diaz J.D., Matijevič G., Bekki K., Bell C.P.M., El
Youssoufi D., de Grijs R., Ivanov V.D., Oliveira J.M., Ripepi V., Subramanian S.,
Sun N.-C., van Loon J.T., 2020, MNRAS, re-submitted
November 2020: Binary-driven stellar rotation
evolution at the main-sequence turn-off in star clusters, Sun W., de
Grijs R., Deng L., Albrow M.D., 2020, MNRAS, submitted
November 2020: The GALAH+ Survey: Third Data
Release, Buder S., Sharma S., Kos J., Amarsi A.M., Nordlander T.,
Lind K., Martell S.L., Asplund M., Bland-Hawthorn J., Casey A.R., De Silva
G.M., D'Orazi V., Freeman K.C., Hayden M.R., Lewis G.F, Lin J., Schlesinger
K.J., Simpson J.D., Stello D., Zucker D.B., Zwitter T., Beeson K.L., Buck T.,
Casagrande L., Clark J.T., Cotar K., Da Costa G.S., de Grijs R., Feuillet D.,
Horner J., Khanna S., Kafle P.R., Liu F., Montet B.T., Nandakumar G., Nataf
D.M., Ness M.K., Spina L., Traven G., Trepper-García T., Ting Y.-S.,
Vogrincic R., Wittenmyer R.A., Žerjal M., and the GALAH collaboration,
2021, MNRAS, submitted;
arXiv:2011.02505
November 2020: Sydney's scientific beginnings:
William Dawes' observatory in context, de Grijs R., Jacob A.P., 2021, J.
Astron. Hist. Heritage, submitted
November 2020: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines
(Four-hundred-year-old stellar explosions reveal their secrets), de Grijs R.,
The Amateur Astronomer, January 2021, in press (in Chinese;
English version)
27 October 2020: It's official! Water has been found
on the Moon (small grains embedded in glassy beads, mostly). See
this new video from the
Australian Academy of Science, which includes a quote from me regarding the
practicality of mining it for human use;
Expert Reaction:
Water on the moon! And it could help us head out to space;
Cosmos
Magazine coverage;
Australian
Science TV;
Click
Lancashire - Independent News
October 2020: Richard was invited to moderate two MOOC
facilitator discussions on
Research and Proposal Writing in the Sciences:
20 October and
22 October; bonus
discussion:
26
October;
Mental
Wellbeing webinar, 17 Nov '20
October 2020: Multiple stellar populations at less
evolved stages: Detection of chemical variations among main-sequence dwarfs
in NGC 1978, Li C., Tang B., Milone A.P., de Grijs R., Hong J., Yang Y.,
Wang Y., 2020, ApJ, in press;
arXiv:2010.15447
October 2020: Eclipsing Binary Populations across the
Northern Galactic Plane from the KISO-GP survey, Ren F.-Z., de Grijs R.,
Zhang H.-W., Deng L., Chen X., Matsunaga N., Liu C., Sun W., Maehara H., Ukita
N., Kobayashi N., 2020, AJ, submitted
7 October 2020: Richard gave a long-delayed invited
colloquium at Monash University (Melbourne), virtually:
Towards an improved,
self-consistent astronomical distance framework
October 2020: The VMC Survey. XL. Three-dimensional
structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud from red clump stars, Tatton B.L.,
van Loon J.T., Cioni M.-R.L., Bekki K., Bell C., Choudhury S., de Grijs R.,
Groenewegen M.A.T., Ivanov V.D., Marconi M., Oliveira J.M., Ripepi V., Rubele
S., Subramanian S., Sun N.-C., 2020, MNRAS, re-submitted
September 2020: Gaia view of a stellar substructure in
front of the Small Magellanic Cloud, Omkumar A.O., Subramanian S.,
Niederhofer F., Diaz J., Cioni M.-R.L., El Youssoufi D., Bekki K., de Grijs R.,
van Loon J.T., 2020, MNRAS, in press;
arXiv:2010.02687
September 2020: European Longitude Prizes. I.
Longitude Determination in the Spanish Empire, de Grijs R., 2020, J. Astron.
Hist. Heritage, in press;
arXiv:2009.12778
24 September 2020: Ask
the Community: What Would Improve Trust in Peer Review? -- the perils of
responding to requests: you get quoted in full...
22 September 2020: It's
Peer Review Week 2020;
check out this article on
Trust
in Peer Review: From the Eyes of Authors, Reviewers & Editors, which includes
my thoughts on the process, its problems and promises
September 2020: The intrinsic reddening of the Magellanic
Clouds as traced by background galaxies. II. The Small Magellanic Cloud, Bell
C.P.M., Cioni M.-R.L., Wright A.H., Rubele S., Nidever D.L., Tatton B.L., van Loon
J.T., Zaritsky D., Choi Y., Choudhury S., Clementini G., de Grijs R., Ivanov V.D.,
Majewski S.R., Marconi M., Martínez-Delgado D., Massana P., Muñoz
R.R., Niederhofer F., Noël N.E.D., Oliveira J.M., Olsen K., Pennock C.M.,
Ripepi V., Subramanian S., Vivas A.K., 2020, MNRAS, 499, 993;
arXiv:2009.04480
8 September 2020: Unusual Astronomers, Unusual
Astronomy Jobs: the latest
Galactic Times
podcast (US Labor Day special) features me as
Maritime Museum guide on Captain Cook's replica
ship in the context of my job as an astronomer
September 2020: A 2.8% distance to the extreme magnetar
and fast radio burst FRB 200428, Wang S., Chen X.-D., Chen B.-Q., de Grijs R.,
Liu J.-F., Jiang B.-W., Gao J., Deng L.-C., Zhang H.-W., 2020, Nature Astronomy,
submitted
September 2020: The new
Macquarie University brand
campaign video is out, and I'm in it -- twice! (But you'll be hard-pressed
to find the second appearance...)
August 2020: Near-infrared Census of RR Lyrae in
the Messier 3 globular cluster and the Period--Luminosity Relations,
Bhardwaj A., Rejkuba M., de Grijs R., Herczeg G.J., Singh H.P., Kanbur S.,
Ngeow C.-C., 2020, AJ, 160, 220;
arXiv:2008.11745
26 August 2020: Join us for a
free
webinar on
Maintaining
Research Productivity Amid the Global Pandemic (hosted by the
Enago Academy) on 26
August 08:30 New York/22:30 Sydney!
18 August 2020: Join me on 18 August, 6:30 pm AEST,
on a
journey
to the edge of the universe;
2
August 2020: Constraining the thermally pulsing
asymptotic giant branch phase with resolved stellar populations in the Large
Magellanic Cloud, Pastorelli G., Marigo P., Girardi L., Aringer B., Chen
Y., Rubele S., Trabucchi M., Bladh S., Boyer M.L., Bressan A., Dalcanton J.J.,
Groenewegen M.A.T., Lebzelter T., Mowlavi N., Chubb K.L., Cioni M.-R.L., de
Grijs R., Ivanov V.D., Nanni A., van Loon J.T., Zaggia S., 2020, MNRAS, 498,
3283;
arXiv:2008.08595
4 August 2020: Richard was appointed to the
Steering Committee of the
Astronomical Society of Australia Education and
Public Outreach Chapter.
30 July 2020: Richard was asked for comments on the
discovery of the oldest globular cluster in the Milky Way:
Sydney
Morning Herald;
The Age;
WAtoday;
Brisbane Times;
Head
Topics Australia
July 2020: Blame game: Restoration quarrels and the
Anglo--Dutch wars, de Grijs R., 2021, Arquebusier, in press
July 2020: A (not so) brief history of lunar
distances: Lunar longitude determination at sea before the chronometer, de
Grijs R., 2020, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, in press;
arXiv:2007.14504
July 2020: The VMC Survey. XLII. Near-Infrared
Period-Luminosity and Period-Wesenheit relations of RR Lyrae stars in the Large
Magellanic Cloud, Cusano F., Moretti M.I., Clementini G., Ripepi V., Marconi
M., Cioni M.-R.L., Rubele S., Garofalo A., de Grijs R., Groenewegen M.A.T.,
Oliveira J.M., Subramanian S., van Loon J.T., Sun N.-C., 2020, MNRAS,
submitted
July 2020: Alexander Bruce, Scotland's accidental
'Scientific Revolutionary', de Grijs R., 2020, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage,
23, 267;
arXiv:2007.12302
July 2020: The VMC Survey. XXXIX: Mapping metallicity
trends in the Small Magellanic Cloud using near-infrared passbands, Choudhury
S., de Grijs R., Rubele S., Bekki K., Cioni M.-R.L., Ivanov V.D., van Loon J.T.,
Niederhofer F., Oliveira J.M., Ripepi V., 2020, MNRAS, 497, 3746;
arXiv:2007.08753
13 July 2020: Richard was appointed to the
Australian Advisory
Board of the
Australia-ChinA ConsortiuM for Astrophysical Research
(ACAMAR) for an initial two-year period.
June 2020: European Longitude Prizes. II. Astronomy,
Religion and Engineering Solutions in the Dutch Republic, de Grijs R.,
2020, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, submitted
June 2020: The Zwicky Transient Facility Catalog
of Periodic Variable Stars, Chen X., Wang S., Deng L., de Grijs R.,
Yang M., Tian H., 2020, ApJS, 249, 18;
arXiv:2005.08662,
data;
AAS Highlight
May 2020: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines
(Iron rain and climate change on hot Jupiters), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer,
September 2020, 39-42 (in Chinese;
English version)
May 2020: The VMC survey. XXXVIII. Proper motion
of the Magellanic Bridge, Schmidt T., Cioni M.-R.L., Niederhofer F., Bekki K.,
Bell C.M.P., de Grijs R., Diaz J., El Youssoufi D., Emerson J., Groenewegen M.A.T.,
Ivanov V.D., Matijevic G., Oliveira J.M., Petr-Gotzens M.G., Queiroz A.B.A.,
Ripepi V., van Loon J.T., 2020, A&A, 641, A134;
arXiv:2006.03163
12-14 May 2020: Lots of things happening this week! 12
May: Richard will chair a panel on the
ORCID
research experience, hosted by the ORCID UK Consortium through JISC; 14
May: Join my "Understanding Science" public lecture hosted by the International
Space Science Institute--Beijing on
Listening
to the Universe. See
this
article or go straight to the
video.
19 April 2020: Richard will talk about
17th century medical
innovations: East vs West (hosted by the
Royal Asiatic Society China -- Beijing)
on 19 April 19:00 Beijing/21:00 Sydney;
details,
recording
April 2020: Life-changing
drum beats, de Grijs R., 2020,
The
Bookends Review, 15 April 2020 issue
8 April 2020: Join us for a free webinar on
Ethical
Considerations in Scholarly Publishing (hosted by the
Enago Academy) on 8
April 08:30 New York/22:30 Sydney!
April 2020: Christopher Wren and Blood Circulation,
de Grijs R., Vuillermin D., 2020, Hektoen Int'l,
Spring
2020 | Blood (Honorable mention in their "Blood" essay competition)
April 2020: Clustering of Local Group distances:
publication bias or correlated measurements? VII. A distance framework out to
100 Mpc, de Grijs R., Bono G., 2020, ApJS, 248, 6;
arXiv:2004.00114
30 March 2020: Richard was interviewed by
2ser local radio's (107.3 FM)
The Daily show on the topic,
Are we
alone?
17 March 2020: Richard delivered a
public lecture
to the
Macquarie University Physics & Astronomy Student Society:
Is
Bigger Always Better? -- probably their last face-to-face lecture for a
while...;
video,
slides
March 2020: The MALATANG Survey: Dense Gas and
Star Formation from High-Transition HCN and HCO+ Maps of NGC 253,
Jiang X.-J., Greve T.R., Gao Y., Zhang Z.-Y., Tan Q., de Grijs R., Ho L.C.,
Michałowski M.J., Currie M.J., Wilson C.D., Brinks E., Ao Y.-P., Zhao Y.-H.,
He J.-H., Harada N., Yang C.-T., Jiao Q., Chung A., Lee B., Smith M.W.L.,
Papadopoulos P.P., Matsushita S., Shi Y., Imanishi M., Rawlings M.G., Zhu M.,
Eden D., Davis T., Li X.-H., 2020, MNRAS, 494, 1276;
arXiv:2003.06595
March 2020: Stellar rotation bifurcation caused by
tidal locking in the open cluster NGC 2287?, Sun W., Li C., Deng L., de Grijs
R., 2019, Proc. IAU Symp. 351, 228;
arXiv:1908.06531
March 2020: Modern maps
and the development of oceanic navigation in East Asia, de Grijs R.,
2020, All Hands (Australian National Maritime Museum volunteers' magazine),
Vol. 110, p. 33
March 2020: The VMC Survey. XXXVII. Pulsation
periods of dust enshrouded AGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds, Groenewegen
M.A.T., Nanni A., Cioni M.-R.L., Girardi L., de Grijs R., Ivanov V.D., Marconi
M., Moretti M.-I., Oliveira J.M., Petr-Gotzens M.G., Ripepi V., van Loon J.T.,
2020, A&A, 636, A48;
arXiv:2003.04025
25 February 2020: Communicating Astronomy with the
Public 2020:
IAU announcement;
AAS
announcement (21-25 September 2020, Macquarie University, Sydney,
Australia)
February 2020: The VMC survey. XXXVI. Young stellar
variability in the Large Magellanic Cloud, Zivkov V., Oliveira J.M.,
Petr-Gotzens M.G., Rubele S., Cioni M.-R.L., van Loon J.T., de Grijs R.,
Emerson J., Ivanov V.D., Marconi M., Moretti M.I., Ripepi V., Niederhofer F.,
Sun N.-C., 2020, MNRAS, 494, 458;
arXiv:2002.12291
February 2020: Physical Parameters of Late-type Contact
Binaries in the Northern Catalina Sky Survey, Sun W., Chen X., Deng L., de
Grijs R., 2019, ApJS, 247, 50;
arXiv:2002.08001
February 2020: Sustained cartographic innovations
in nascent French Canada: the life and times of Jean Deshayes, de Grijs R.,
2020, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, 23, 100;
arXiv:2002.07438
31 January 2020: The website is live:
Communicating Astronomy with the
Public 2020; Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia -- 21-25 September
2020
January 2020: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines
(Explosions galore!), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, April 2020, p.
17 (in Chinese;
English version)
24 January 2020: Richard was interviewed by Jamie
Carter (at Forbes) for an explainer about Chinese New Year 2020:
Year
Of The 'Gold' Rat: How Chinese New Year Is Explained By The Moon And Jupiter
January 2020: Richard was invited to join the
AAL
Science Advisory Committee (ASAC), the
Physics World Advisory
Board (PWAB), and the
AuthorAID
Stewards
11 January 2020: Speaking of Space, Public Outreach
Seminar 2020 at Beijing Planetarium:
Navigation At Sea In
The 17th Century;
2
January 2020: The HASHTAG project I. A Survey of CO(3--2)
Emission from the Star Forming Disk of M31, Li Z.-N., Li Z.-Y., Smith M.W.L.,
Wilson C.D., Gao Y., Eales S.A., Ao Y.-P., Bureau M., Chung A., Davis T.A.,
de Grijs R., Eden D.J., He J.-H., Hughes T.M., Jiang X.-J., Kemper C., Lamperti
I., Lee B., Lee C.-H., Michałowski M.J., Parsons H., Ragan S., Scicluna P.,
Shi Y., Tang X., Toimci N., 2020, MNRAS, 492, 195;
arXiv:1912.02403
3 January 2020: "Science and Humanities" Lecture No.
15 --
Towards
an improved, self-consistent local distance framework; announcement of
my colloquium at Sun Yat-sen University in Zhuhai (Guangdong), China
January 2020: Clustering of Local Group distances:
publication bias or correlated measurements? VI. Extending to Virgo cluster
distances, de Grijs R., Bono G., 2020, ApJS, 246, 3;
arXiv:1911.04312
News from previous years: 2019;
2018;
2017;
2016;
2015;
2014;
2013
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