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= 2021 = LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS!
LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! = 2021 =
June 2021: The VMC survey. XLIII. The spatially
resolved star formation history across the Large Magellanic Cloud, Mazzi
A., Girardi L., Saggia S., Gastorelli G., Rubele S., Bressan A., Cioni M.-R.L.,
Clementini G., Cusano F., Rocha J.P., Gullieuszik M., Kerber L., Marigo P.,
Ripepi V., Bekki K., de Grijs R., Groenewegen M.A.T., Ivanov V.D., Oliveira
J.M., Sun N.-C., van Loon J.T., 2021, MNRAS, re-submitted
June 2021: "Plague of the Sea, and the
Spoyle of Mariners" -- A brief history of fermented cabbage as
antiscorbutic, de Grijs R., 2021, Hektoen Int'l, in press
June 2021: European Longitude Prizes. II. Astronomy,
Religion and Engineering Solutions in the Dutch Republic, de Grijs R.,
2021, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, 24, 451;
arXiv:2101.04760
June 2021: Exploring the stellar rotation of
early-type stars in the LAMOST Medium-Resolution Survey. II. Statistics,
Sun W., Duan X.-W., Deng L., de Grijs R., 2021, ApJ, submitted
June 2021: Exploring the stellar rotation of
early-type stars in the LAMOST Medium-Resolution Survey. I. Catalog,
Sun W., Duan X.-W., Deng L., de Grijs R., Zhang B., Liu C., 2021, ApJS,
submitted
10 June 2021: A happy and proud day today: two of
my PhD students at Peking University successfully defended their theses --
Ren Fangzhou:
Binary star research based on KISO-GP and LAMOST
and
Yang Yujiao:
Stellar populations in young star clusters
21 May 2021: Interview
with Pint ("Mug") of Science Australia;
transcript
11 May 2021: Reuters, the press agency, published
an
Explainer
about "all the fuss over falling debris from China's most powerful rocket",
liberally quoting Richard.
9 May 2021: Richard was quoted in an article
titled
China
Says Debris From Long March Rocket Landed in Indian Ocean by
Bloomberg (Technology)
6 May 2021: Our proposal to write a biography of
William Dawes, provisionally titled
William Dawes -- Astronomer of high
morals, has been approved for possible publication in the
Springer Biographies series
:-)
May 2021: 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., 2021, MNRAS, 504, 2983;
arXiv:2012.12288
5 May 2021: Connect to
Listen to the Universe
with Richard de Grijs:
announcement
(7pm AEST). Live links:
Facebook
and
YouTube;
recording
27 April 2021: My essay,
The colour
of the Universe (
local .pdf),
won 2nd prize in the
2021
Outstanding Communication on Colour competition :-)
20 April 2021: Watch my
interview on
issues related to publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals, done in the
context of the
2021 AuthorAID MOOC on research writing in the sciences.
April 2021: 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, in press;
arXiv:2011.02505
April 2021: European Longitude Prizes. IV. Thomas
Axe's Impossible Terms, de Grijs R., 2021, JAHH, submitted
April 2021: Stellar substructures in the periphery
of the Magellanic Clouds with the VISTA Hemisphere Survey from the red clump
and other tracers, El Youssoufi D., Cioni M.-R.L., Subramanian S., Bell
C.P.M., de Grijs R., Groenewegen M.A.T., Ivanov V.D., Matijevič G.,
Niederhofer F., Oliveira J.M., Ripepi V., Schmidt T., Subramanian S., Sun N.-C.,
van Loon J.T., 2021, MNRAS, in press;
arXiv:2104.08054
April 2021: European Longitude Prizes. III. The
Unsolved Mystery of an Alleged Venetian Longitude Prize, de Grijs R.,
2021, JAHH, submitted
6 April 2021: Richard was among the
prize
winners of the 2021
Past Forward essay competition!
Full
list (on page 1)
March 2021: Gaia EDR3 Parallax Zero-point
Offset based on W Ursae Majoris-type Eclipsing Binaries, Ren F.-Z., Chen
X., Zhang H.-W., de Grijs R., Deng L., Huang Y., 2021, ApJL, 911, L20;
arXiv:2103.16096
March 2021: 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., 2021, MNRAS, 504,
1;
arXiv:2103.15492
March 2021: Searching for chemical abundance
variations in young star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds: NGC 411, NGC 1718
and NGC 2213, Kapse S., de Grijs R., Zucker D.B., 2021, MNRAS, 503
6016;
arXiv:2103.10034
March 2021: The spatial distributions of blue
main-sequence stars in Magellanic Cloud star clusters, Yang Y., Li C.,
de Grijs R., Deng L., 2021, ApJ, 912, 27;
arXiv:2103.02379
3 March 2021: Richard was interviewed on ABC Radio
Sydney's
Breakfast
Show with Wendy Harmer and Robbie Buck:
mp3
file
1 March 2021: Solved -- the site of Australia's
first astronomical observatory; follow our historical detective work,
pinning down the site of the first astronomical observatory in Australia:
The
Lighthouse (Macquarie University);
Mirage News;
National
Tribune
March 2021: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines
(Galaxy mergers), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, May 2021, in press (in
Chinese;
English version)
19 February 2021: Expert
Reaction: First black hole ever detected is more massive than we
thought
February 2021: The curious tale of a well-travelled
Wigan long-case clock, de Grijs R., 2021, Past Forward, in press; runner-up
in the
2021
local history essay competition
11 February 2021: Richard was quoted in an article
titled
China's
Space Dream Scores Big Win With First Mission to Mars by Bloomberg
(Technology);
Bloomberg | Quint;
Business Standard;
(in Chinese)
February 2021: Binary-driven stellar rotation
evolution at the main-sequence turn-off in star clusters, Sun W., de
Grijs R., Deng L., Albrow M.D., 2021, MNRAS, 502, 4350;
arXiv:2102.02352
February 2021: 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., 2021, AJ, 161, 176;
arXiv:2102.01924
February 2021: The GALAH+ Survey: A New Library of
Observed Stellar Spectra Improves Radial Velocities and Reveals Motions within
M67, Zwitter T., Kos J., Buder S., Čotar K., 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., Lind K., Martell S.L., Schlesinger K.J., Sharma S., Simpson J.D.,
Stello D., Zucker D.B., Beeson K.-L., de Grijs R., Nordlander T., Traven G.,
Watson F., Wittenmyer R., 2021, MNRAS, submitted;
arXiv:2012.12201
February 2021: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines
(Four-hundred-year-old stellar explosions reveal their secrets), de Grijs R.,
The Amateur Astronomer, February 2021, pp. 44-49 (in Chinese;
English version)
30 January 2021: Richard was offered and accepted an
honorary appointment as
Associate
Editor of the
Journal of Astronomical
History and Heritage
January 2021: The curious tale of a well-travelled
Wigan long-case clock, de Grijs R., 2021, Past Forward, submitted
28 January 2021: Richard delivered a plenary talk at
the
PIDapalooza 2021
conference:
Persistent
what? A researcher's confusion; doi:
10.5281/zenodo.4460626
(presentation slides),
recording
January 2021: William Dawes: Practical astronomy
on the "First Fleet" from England to Australia, de Grijs R., Jacob A.P.,
2021, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, 24, 7;
arXiv:2101.08975
January 2021: Sydney's scientific beginnings:
William Dawes' observatories in context, de Grijs R., Jacob A.P., 2021,
J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, 24, 41;
arXiv:2101.08974
January 2021: 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., 2021, MNRAS, 502, 2859;
arXiv:2101.09099
January 2021: 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., 2021, ApJ, 906, 133;
arXiv:2010.15447
January 2021: RR Lyrae variables in Messier 53:
Near-infrared Period--Luminosity relations and their calibration using
Gaia Early Data Release 3, Bhardwaj A., Rejkuba M., de Grijs R.,
Yang S.-C., Herczeg G.J., Marconi M., Singh H.P., Kanbur S., Ngeow C.-C.,
2021, ApJ, 909, 200;
arXiv:2012.13495
July 2020: Blame game: Restoration quarrels and the
Anglo--Dutch wars, de Grijs R., 2021, Arquebusier, in press
News from previous years:
2020;
2019;
2018;
2017;
2016;
2015;
2014;
2013
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