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= 2017 = LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS!
LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! = 2017 =
June 2017: Toward a self-consistent astronomical
distance scale, de Grijs R., Courbin F., Martínez-Vázquez C.E.,
Monelli M., Oguri M., Suyu S.H., 2017, Space Sci. Rev., accepted for publication!
June 2017: Mira Variable Stars From LAMOST DR4 Data:
Emission Features, Temperature Types, and Candidate Selection, Yao Y.H., Liu
C., Deng L., de Grijs R., Matsunaga N., 2017, ApJS, submitted for publication
June 2017: The Optical--Mid-infrared Extinction Law of
the l = 165o Sightline in the Galactic Plane: Diversity of
Extinction Law in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium, Wang S., Jiang B.W., Zhao
H., Chen X., de Grijs R., 2017, ApJ, submitted for publication
June 2017: Discovery of Extended Main Sequences in
Four Young Massive Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds, Li C., de Grijs R.,
Deng L., Milone A., 2017, ApJ, accepted for publication!
June 2017: The VMC Survey. XXVIII. The 3D structure
of the Small Magellanic Cloud from Classical Cepheids, Ripepi V., Cioni
M.-R.L., Moretti M.I., Marconi M., Bekki K., Clementini G., de Grijs R., Emerson
J., Groenewegen M.A.T., Ivanov V.D., Molinaro R., Muraveva T., Oliveira J.M.,
Piatti A.E., Subramanian S. van Loon J.T., 2017, MNRAS, submitted for
publication
June 2017: The VMC Survey XXVII. Young Stellar
Structures in the LMC's Bar Star-Forming Complex, Sun N.-C., de Grijs R.,
Subramanian S., Bekki K., Bell C.P.M., Cioni M.-R.L., Ivanov V.D., Marconi M.,
Oliveira J.M., Piatti A.E., Ripepi V., Rubele S., Tatton B.L., van Loon J.T.,
2017, ApJ, submitted for publication
4 June 2017:
Continuing allegations of research misconduct require system reform,
Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
June 2017: Not-so-simple stellar populations in nearby,
resolved massive star clusters, de Grijs R., Li C., 2017, Physica Scripta,
submitted for publication (review article)
June 2017: First detection of bifurcated blue straggler
stars in young globular clusters Li C., Deng L., de Grijs R., Jiang D., Xin Y.,
2017, Science, submitted for publication
May 2017: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines
of May 2017 (Planetary formation is disks of dust and gas unveiled), de Grijs R.,
The Amateur Astronomer, July 2017, in press (in Chinese;
English version)
May 2017: The dynamical origin of multiple populations
in intermediate-age clusters in the Magellanic Clouds, Hong J., de Grijs R.,
Askar A., Berczik P., Li C., Wang L., Deng L., Kouwenhoven M.B.N., Giersz M.,
Spurzem R., 2017, MNRAS, submitted for publication
May 2017: VISTA
Peeks Through the Small Magellanic Cloud's Dusty Veil, ESO/VMC team press
release (3 May 2017)
April-June 2017: Richard is spending seven weeks as an
Erskine
awardee at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand;
interview (
pdf)
April 2017: Improved Method to Determine the Integrated
Properties of Nuclear Rings: NGC 1512, Ma C., de Grijs R., Ho L.C., 2017,
ApJS, 230, 14;
arXiv:1705.01251
April 2017: Richard was selected as one of three
finalists of
the
2017
Flame Challenge (written entry), explaining
What
is Energy? to 21,000 11-year-old school children!
24 April 2017: National
Space Day aims to inspire the next generation, Richard de Grijs,
china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
19 April 2017: Richard was quoted in a
collection
of opinions, titled
Experts' view on China's cyber security and
informatization progress
April 2017: In China, even the sky is no longer the
limit, de Grijs R., 2017, submitted to the
Asian Scientist Writing Prize 2017
13 April 2017: Migrant
children miss out on school coverage, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion
article (editor's pick)
6 April 2017: ORCID Board Elections
2018: Applications and Procedures, de Grijs R., 2017, ORCID Blog post
4 April 2017: Richard was mentioned in an
article
in
24
heures (in French) announcing the opening of a private Swiss facility
by the
Fondation Jan Michalski,
aimed at supporting authors from around the world; his application was one of
29
proposals selected from around 900 submissions!
April 2017: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines
of March 2017 ("Citizen science" on the rise), de Grijs R., The Amateur
Astronomer, May 2017, p. 17 (in Chinese;
English
version)
3 April 2017: Richard was interviewed by
Lion TV for a PBS/NOVA documentary,
Building
Secrets of the Forbidden
City, on Ming-era astronomy, belief systems, and instrumentation at Beijing's
Ancient Observatory
April 2017: We are hiring a
postdoctoral researcher in
time-domain astrophysics in Galactic open clusters; application deadline:
30 April 2017
April 2017: The VMC survey - XXIII. Model fitting
of light and radial velocity curves of Small Magellanic Cloud classical
Cepheids, Marconi M., Molinaro R., Ripepi V., Cioni M.-R.L., Clementini G.,
Moretti M.I., Ragosta F., de Grijs R., Groenewegen M.A.T., Ivanov V.D., 2017,
MNRAS, 466, 3206;
arXiv:1612.04650
22 March 2017: Chinese
government strongly supports high-level expert advice,
Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
18 March 2017: Latest public screening of our documentary,
The Science of Heaven, in Tianjin;
news report
3 March 2017: A
political 'perfect storm' may boost international talent recruitment,
Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick);
Chinese
version
March 2017: Young star clusters in circumnuclear
starburst rings, de Grijs R., Ma C., Jia S., Ho L.C., Anders P., 2017, MNRAS,
465, 2820;
arXiv:1610.09125
February 2017: Richard has been awarded
an
all-inclusive writing residency by the
Fondation Jan Michalski to finish his
historical monograph,
Time and Time Again, in August 2017
19 February 2017: Food
for thought and nourishment in Beijing, de Grijs R., Institute of
Physics/IOP Life blog
19 February 2017: US
universities alarmed at declining Chinese graduate enrollments, Richard de
Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
February 2017: Measure of the
Heart: Santorio Santorio and the Pulsilogium,
de Grijs R., Vuillermin D., 2017, Hektoen
Int'l,
Winter
2017, Moments in
History;
arXiv:1702.05211
6 February 2017: How
Chinese universities can achieve world-class status, Richard de Grijs,
china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
February 2017: Richard was
interviewed for a
news
story in
Physics World on China's next-generation space missions
February 2017: 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., 2017, ApJ, 835, 171;
arXiv:1611.06508
February 2017: AstroTalk: Behind the news
headlines of January 2017 (Pulsars--enigmatic objects that remain as mysterious
as when they were first discovered...), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, March
2017, p. 16 (in Chinese;
English version)
28 January 2017: Top-level
international talent recruitment remains challenging, Richard de Grijs,
china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
January 2017: The VMC Survey XXIV: 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, 467, 2980;
arXiv:1701.05722
January 2017: The radial distributions of the two
main-sequence components in the young massive star cluster NGC 1856, Li C., de
Grijs R., Deng L., Milone A. P., 2017, ApJ, 834, 156;
arXiv:1611.04659
15 January 2017: Third screening of our documentary,
The Science of Heaven, in Shanghai;
event invitation,
advertisement;
news report;
SHAO news
13 January 2017: Science
and innovation awards honor key achievements, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn
opinion article (editor's pick)
January 2017: Star clusters: Anything but simple
(News and Views), de Grijs R., 2017, Nature Astronomy, 1, 0011;
arXiv:1701.00053
January 2017: New open cluster Cepheids in the VVV
survey tightly constrain near-infrared period-luminosity relations,
Chen X., de Grijs R., Deng L., 2017, MNRAS, 464, 1119;
arXiv:1609.05440
January 2017: AstroTalk: Behind the news
headlines of November 2016 (Pure water in a Japanese mine offers clues to the
nature of supernova explosions), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, January
2017, p. 26 (in Chinese;
English version)
29 December 2016: China's
potential as a mature spacefaring nation, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn
opinion article (editor's pick)
25 December 2016: China's
research regulators step up efforts, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion
article (editor's pick)
16 December 2016: Richard has been
elected to
serve as independent "researcher" on the
ORCID Board of Directors from 1
January 2017 for a three-year term.
12 December 2016: Richard was
featured
in a
news
story relating high-level discussions about the development of postdoctoral
systems (
in Chinese);
photo series
December 2016: China as a destination for international
postdoctoral researchers, de Grijs R., 2016, in:
Proc. Int'l Symp.
on Postdoctoral Systems, p. 149 (Chinese: p. 49), 10-12 December 2016, Zhuhai
(Guangdong), China;
download
December 2016: The VMC survey. XXV. Identification of
quasars from their near-infrared variability properties, Hempel M., Ivanov V.D.,
Cioni M.-R., Piatti A.E., de Grijs R., van Loon J.T., Ripepi V., 2017, A&A,
submitted for publication
November 2016: Variability in the Milky Way: Contact
binaries as diagnostic tools, de Grijs R., Chen X., Deng, L., 2017, in:
The
non-stable Universe: Energetic sources, activity phenomena and evolutionary
processes, eds Mickaelian A., Harutyunian H., Nikoghosyan E., Byurakan
(Armenia), September 2016, in press;
arXiv:1611.08409
News from previous years: 2016;
2015;
2014;
2013
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