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= 2022 = LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS!
LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! = 2022 =
20 May 2022: A happy and proud day today: my
last PhD student at Peking University successfully defended his thesis
--
SUN Weijia:
Stellar rotation and binarity: the missing
piece in star clusters and stellar populations
19 May 2022: Richard was quoted extensively in
a new feature article in
Research information on
Pandemic
brings preprints into the spotlight.
12 May 2022: Expert reaction:
First
images of a black hole in our galaxy (with a quote from Richard)
May 2022: The intrinsic reddening of the
Magellanic Clouds as traced by background galaxies. III. The Large
Magellanic Cloud , Bell C.P.M., Cioni M.-R.L., Wright A.H., Nidever
D.L., Chiang I-D., Choudhury S., Groenewegen M.A.T., Pennock C.M., Choi
Y., de Grijs R., Ivanov V.D., Massana P., Nanni A., Noël N.E.D.,
Olsen K., van Loon J.T., Vivas A.K., Zaritsky D., 2022, MNRAS,
re-submitted;
arXiv:2205.04406
29 April 2022: How to
recognise invitations of a potentially "predatory" nature, de Grijs
R., 2022, AuthorAID blog post
April 2022: Search for OB associations in
Gaia early Data Release 3, Chemel A.A., de Grijs R.,
Glushkova E.V., Dambis A.K., 2022, MNRAS, re-submitted
28 April 2022: "Utilize Social Media to Endorse
Publications, DPIS IPB University: More Benefits" -- my Enago webinar hit
the news via
TribunNews
Bogor (in Bahasa Indonesian)
April 2022: The role of binarity and stellar
rotation in the split main-sequences of NGC 2422, He C., Sun W., Li
C., Li L., Shao Z., Zhong J., Chen L., de Grijs R., Tang B., Qin S.,
Randriamanakoto Z., 2022, ApJ, submitted
April 2022: Statistics of BY Draconis
Chromospheric Variable Stars, Chahal D., de Grijs R., Kamath D., Chen
X., 2022, MNRAS, submitted
29 March 2022: "Stellar motions reveal backbone
of the Large Magellanic Cloud" -- check out the latest breakthrough by our
international research team:
AIP
press release
23 March 2022: Richard was among the prize
winners (a runner-up) of the 2022
Past Forward essay
competition!
12 March 2022: Richard represented Macquarie
University at the Opening Ceremony of the
FRC Southern Cross Regional
competition in Wollongong.
March 2022: The VMC survey. XLVI. Stellar
proper motions within the centre of the Large Magellanic Cloud,
Niederhofer F., Cioni M.-R.L., Schmidt T., Bekki K., de Grijs R., Ivanov
V.D., Oliveira J.M., Ripepi V., Subramanian S., van Loon J.T., 2022,
MNRAS, 512, 5423;
arXiv:2203.14369
March 2022: AstroTalk: Behind the news
headlines (Now you see them, now you don't: the elusive nature
of nearby black holes), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, May 2022,
in press (in Chinese;
English
version)
1 March 2022: Offensive or Inclusive Language in Scientific Communication?,
de Grijs R., 2022, Guest Post on the
Scholarly Kitchen blog
March 2022: Our strong and ongoing
collaboration between Macquarie University and NAOC Beijing was
highlighted by
ACAMAR (the
Australia--China Consortium for Astrophysical Research) as a good
example of Australia--China engagement in stellar astrophysics:
Success
story
February 2022: The VMC Survey. XLVIII.
Classical Cepheids unveil the 3D geometry of the LMC, Ripepi R.,
Chemin L., Molinaro R., Cioni M.-R.L., Bekki K., Clementini G., de
Grijs R., De Somma G., El Youssoufi D., Girardi L., Groenewegen
M.A.T., Ivanov V.D., Marconi M., McMillan P.J., van Loon J.T., 2022,
MNRAS, 512, 563;
arXiv:2203.01780
Februuary 2022: "Tenpence" -- A matter of life,
death or transportation, de Grijs R., 2022, Past Forward,
in press; selected as prize winning entry in the
2022
Barbara O'Neill Local History Writing Competition (Wigan, UK)
February 2022: The VMC survey. XLVII.
Turbulence-controlled hierarchical star formation in the Large Magellanic
Cloud, Miller A.E., Cioni M.-R.L., de Grijs R., Sun N.-C., Bell C.P.M.,
Choudhury S., Ivanov V.D., Marconi M., Oliveira J., Petr-Gotzens M., Ripepi
V., van Loon J.T., 2022, MNRAS, 512, 1196;
arXiv:2202.09267
February 2022: The unexpected appearance of
Dawes' Observatory on the "1808 Sydney Cove Map", de Grijs R., 2022,
J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, 25, 97
February 2022: Decoding the bifurcated red-giant
branch as a tracer of multiple stellar populations in the young Large
Magellanic Cloud cluster NGC 2173, Kapse S., de Grijs R., Kamath D.,
Zucker D.B., 2022, ApJL, 927, L10;
arXiv:2202.08022
14 February 2022: Join us for this year's first
free AuthorAID webinar on
Hot
topics in publishing ethics, chaired by yours truly. (
recording)
7 February 2022: When
governments don't get along, scientists are key, de Grijs R., 2022,
AuthorAID blog post
February 2022: AstroTalk: Behind the news
headlines (The Universe is composed of mass, energy and ... information?),
de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, February 2022, 62-66 (in Chinese;
English version)
21 January 2022: LAMOST
reveals secret of stellar rotation of hot stars -- a neat
story based on two significant papers by my PhD student Weija Sun!
January 2022: Historical Chinese efforts to
determine longitude at sea, de Grijs R., 2022, J. Astron. Hist.
Heritage, 25, 54;
arXiv:2201.08467
January 2022: The VMC survey. XLV. Proper
motion of the outer LMC and the impact of the SMC, Schmidt T., Cioni
M.-R.L., Niederhofer F., Bekki K., Bell C.P.M., de Grijs R., El Youssoufi
D., Ivanov V.D., Oliveira J.M., Ripepi V., van Loon J.T., 2022, A&A, in
press;
arXiv:2201.10018
January 2022: Stellar chromospheric
variability, de Grijs R., Kamath D., 2022, Scholarly Community
Encyclopedia
entry
2 January 2022: Year in Review --
Billionaire-Driven Space Tourism Bloomed In 2021, Presenting New
Questions of Wastefulness; Richard was
interviewed by
Sputnik News (but
the interview was published first on
News Ghana).
News from previous years:
2021;
2020;
2019;
2018;
2017;
2016;
2015;
2014;
2013
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