December 2014: The search for longitude: Preliminary insights from a 17th Century Dutch perspective, de Grijs R., 2015, in: International Symposium on the Sino-French Geodesic Survey of the Qing Empire in the 18th Century, Sanya (Hainan, China), November 2014, in press
17 December 2014: Surprising Theorists, Stars Within Middle-Aged Clusters Are of Similar Age, Kavli Foundation press release about our Letter to Nature; KIAA release; PKU release
December 2014: We have just been notified that 40% (6 of 15) of the peer-reviewed articles by KIAA scientists from 2013 that qualified for a publication "bonus" in the form of a research grant were published by my group!
December 2014: Ten Simple Rules for Establishing International Research Collaborations, de Grijs R., 2015, PLoS Comput. Biol. (invited editorial), submitted
December 2014: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of November 2014 (Star clusters as "not-so-simple" stellar populations), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, January 2015, in press (in Chinese); English version
November 2014: The VMC Survey. XIV. First results on the look-back time star-formation rate tomography of the Small Magellanic Cloud, Rubele S., Girardi L., Kerber L., Cioni M.-R.L., Piatti A.E., Zaggia S., Bekki K., Bressan A., Clementini G., de Grijs R., Emerson J.P., Groenewegen M.A.T., Ivanov V.D., Marconi M., Marigo P., Moretti M.I., Ripepi V., Subramanian S., Tatton B.L., van Loon J.Th., 2015, MNRAS, re-submitted for publication
November 2014: Commemorating the 300th Anniversary of the Stone Inscription Hai Pan Nan Tian: International Symposium on the Sino-French Geodesic Survey of the Qing Empire in the 18th Century (Invited talk: Richard de Grijs), Sanya (Hainan, China), 14-18 November 2014; Media (TV) coverage: 1, 2; local copy
November 2014: How West met East in Chinese astronomy, de Grijs R., 2015, Physics World, in press (feature article, January 2015)
November 2014: Star cluster disruption in the starburst galaxy Messier 82, Li S., de Grijs R., Anders P., Li C., 2015, ApJS, 216, 6; arXiv:1411.2704
October 2014: The VMC Survey. XIII. Type II Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud, Ripepi V., Moretti M.I., Marconi M., Clementini G., Cioni M.-R.L., de Grijs R., Emerson J.P., Groenewegen M.A.T., Ivanov V.D., Muraveva T., Piatti A.E., Subramanian S., 2015, MNRAS, 446, 3034; arXiv:1410.7817
October 2014: A search for open cluster Cepheids in the Galactic plane, Chen X., de Grijs R., Deng L., 2015, MNRAS, 446, 1268; arXiv:1410.4489
October 2014: The exclusion of a significant range of ages in a massive star cluster, Li C., de Grijs R., Deng L., 2014, Nature, 516, 367; arXiv:1412.5368
October 2014: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of September 2014 (Pulsars in X-rays and gamma rays), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, November 2014, p. 20 (in Chinese); English version
September 2014: How does a low-mass cut-off in the stellar IMF affect the evolution of young star clusters?, Kouwenhoven M.B.N., Goodwin S.P., de Grijs R., Rose M., Kim S.S., 2014, MNRAS, 445, 2256; arXiv:1409.2613
September 2014: Binary systems, their evolution and environments (SOC chair: Richard de Grijs), Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), 1-5 September 2014; Associated summer school, 28-31 August 2014; Office of Astronomy for Development release
August 2014: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of July 2014 (Development of the Thirty Meter Telescope: opportunities for China), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, September 2014, p. 20 (in Chinese); English version
July 2014: Eclipsing binary stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Results from the EROS-2, OGLE and VMC surveys, Muraveva T., Clementini G., Maceroni C., Evans C.J., Moretti M.I., Cioni M.-R.L., Marquette J. B., Ripepi V., de Grijs R., Groenewegen M.A.T., Piatti A., 2014, MNRAS, 443, 432; arXiv:1406.2494
July 2014: The VVV Templates Project: Towards an Automated Classification of VVV Light-Curves, I. Building a database of stellar variability in the near-infrared, Angeloni et al. (52 co-authors, incl. de Grijs R.), 2014, A&A, 567, A100; (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201423904) arXiv:1405.4517
July 2014: The VMC Survey. XII. Star cluster candidates in the Large Magellanic Cloud, Piatti A.E., Guandalini R., Ivanov V.D., Rubele S., Cioni M.-R.L., de Grijs R., For B.-Q., Clementini G., Ripepi V., Anders P., Oliveira J., 2014, A&A, 570, A74; arXiv:1407.5471
July 2014: The VMC Survey. XI. Radial Stellar Population Gradients in the Galactic Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae, Li C., de Grijs R., Deng L., Rubele S., Wang C., Bekki K., Cioni M.-R.L., Clementini G., Emerson J.P., For B.-Q., Girardi L., Groenewegen M.A.T., Guandalini R., Gullieuszik M., Marconi M., Piatti A.E., Ripepi V., van Loon J.Th., 2014, ApJ, 790, 35; arXiv:1406.1259
June 2014: The nearest high-velocity stars revealed by LAMOST Data Release 1, Zhong J., Chen L., Liu C., de Grijs R., Hou J., Shen S., Shao Z., Li J., Luo A., Shi J., Zhang H., Yang M., Deng L., Jin G., Zhang Y., Hou Y., Zhang Z., 2014, ApJL, 789, L2; arXiv:1405.7760, press release
June 2014: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of May 2014 (Background to the BICEP2 results and the ensuing controversy), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, July 2014, p. 30 (in Chinese); English version
June 2014: Clustering of Local Group distances: publication bias or correlated measurements? II. M31 and beyond, de Grijs R., Bono G., 2014, AJ, 148, 17; arXiv:1405.2124
May 2014: Our group member, Li Shuo, successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis, Star cluster evolution in the starburst galaxy M82, on 15 May 2014
May 2014: Richard de Grijs featured at the press conference and formal opening ceremony of the China Science Festival, 6 May 2014; national media coverage includes an article in the China Daily and at XinhuaNet (see also this article)
May 2014: The International Astronomical Union has approved two meetings (to be held at its next General Assembly, in August 2015 in Hawai'i) for which Richard de Grijs was invited to serve as Scientific Organising Committee member, a Symposium on the "Formation, Evolution, and Survival of Massive Star Clusters", and a 2-day Focus Meeting on "Stellar Physics in Galaxies throughout the Universe"
April 2014: Clustering of Local Group distances: publication bias or correlated measurements? I. The Large Magellanic Cloud, de Grijs R., Wicker J.E., Bono G., 2014, AJ, 147, 122; arXiv:1403.3141
April 2014: We are excited to have found a director/producer for our NSFC-funded documentary on The human face of Chinese astronomy: Past, present, and future: René Seegers
April 2014: Our group's research was selected for nomination on behalf of Peking University, Top-10 achievements in astrophysics research in China (2013)
April 2014: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of March 2014 (The mirrors and structure of the James Webb Space Telescope), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, May 2014, p. 20 (in Chinese); English version
April 2014: Star clusters in M33: Updated UBVRI photometry, ages, metallicities, and masses, Fan Z., de Grijs R., 2014, ApJS, 211, 22; arXiv:1402.3029
March 2014: New approach to science management needed, cover story/feature interview, Science weekly, 25 March 2014, p. 18 (scanned, extended version; in Chinese)
March 2014: Not-so-simple stellar populations in the intermediate-age Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters NGC 1831 and NGC 1868, Li C., de Grijs R., Deng L., 2014, ApJ, 784, 157; arXiv:1312.4939
March 2014: Richard de Grijs appointed to two Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) International Science Development Teams: The Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies and Formation of Stars and Planets
March 2014: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of January 2014 (Gaia launch and commissioning), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, March 2014, p. 20 (in Chinese); English version
January2014: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of November 2013 (The shape of the inner regions of our Milky Way and why it matters), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, January 2014, p. 40 (in Chinese); English version
January 2014: The VMC Survey. X. Cepheids, RR Lyrae stars and binaries as probes of the Magellanic System's structure, Moretti M.I., Clementini G., Muraveva T., Ripepi V., Marquette J.B., Cioni M.-R.L., Marconi M., Girardi L., Rubele S., Tisserand P., de Grijs R., Guandalini R., Groenewegen M.A.T., van Loon J.T., 2014, MNRAS, 437, 2702; arXiv:1310.6849
January 2014: The VMC Survey. VIII. First results for Anomalous Cepheids, Ripepi V., Marconi M., Moretti M.I., Clementini G., Cioni M.-R.L., de Grijs R., Emerson J.P., Groenewegen M.A.T., Ivanov V.D., Oliveira J.M., 2014, MNRAS, 437, 2307; arXiv:1310.5967