21 December 2021: Expert Reaction: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launch (with a quote from Richard)
December 2021: 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., 2021, A&A, re-submitted
December 2021: 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, submitted
9 December 2021: International research collaboration in the "New Normal", de Grijs R., AuthorAID blog post
7 December 2021: Macquarie University's Lighthouse Year Ender compilation video features our research on the first astronomical observatory in New South Wales!
December 2021: Search for OB associations in Gaia early Data Release 3, Chemel A.A., Glushkova E.V., Dambis A.K., de Grijs R., 2022, MNRAS, submitted
November 2021: 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, submitted
November 2021: Early star charts of the Dutch East India Company, de Grijs R., 2023. In: Essays on Astronomical History and Heritage. A Tribute to Wayne Orchiston on His 80th Birthday. Gullberg S.R., and Robertson P., eds. New York: Springer, in press
19 November 2021: Read about tonight's lunar eclipse in Richard's bite-sized explanation for The Lighthouse.
November 2021: 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., 2021, MNRAS, submitted
18 November 2021: Register for the one-day meeting See the Future 2021; I will present an invited talk on International Research Collaboration in the "New Normal"
November 2021: Stellar chromospheric variability (invited review), de Grijs R., Kamath D., 2021, Universe (special issue on Stellar Astrophysics), 7, 440; open access
November 2021: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines (The Universe is composed of mass, energy and ... information?), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, December 2021, in press (in Chinese; English version)
29 October 2021: Richard will present the keynote lecture, The International Astronomical Union and higher education in astronomy, at the 70th anniversary celebration/seminar of the Bandung Institute of Technology; press release
29 October 2021: Richard was selected as winner of the Enago Academy's Global AI Survey -- Understanding the Role of AI Automation and Tools in Academic Publishing (although the actual prizes on offer remain as yet undisclosed).
27 October 2021: SwitchHubTV just released a new episode of their professional interviews featuring Richard: EP10 What Shape is the Milky Way Galaxy?; also posted on LinkedIn
21 October 2021: Richard issued a Call for contributions of interest to the broader AuthorAID community.
16 October 2021: First announcement released: International Astronomical Union Symposium 376, At the crossroads of astrophysics and cosmology: Period--luminosity relations in the 2020s; https://iaus376.org (25--29 April, 2022; Budapest, Hungary, and online)
2 October 2021: Richard was quoted quite extensively by the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) in relation to the planned launch of China's Shenzhou 13 mission: China delays launch of next mission to Tiangong space station
September 2021: Presence of red giant population in the foreground stellar sub-structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud, James D., Subramanian S., Omkumar A.O., Mary A., Bekki K., Cioni M.-R.L., de Grijs R., El Youssoufi D., Kartha S.S., Niederhofer F., van Loon J.T., 2021, MNRAS, 508, 5854; arXiv:2110.02039
22-24 September 2021: Join us for the ACAMAR Future of Traditional Survey Science workshop!
September 2021: 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., 2021, MNRAS, submitted
September 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, 508, 4202; arXiv:2012.12201
8 September 2021: Richard was asked for commentary by the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) on China's new Mars helicopter: China develops Mars drone for future red planet missions
September 2021: The HASHTAG project: The First Submillimeter Images of the Andromeda Galaxy from the Ground, Smith M.W.L., Eales S.A., Williams T.G., Lee B., Li Z.-N., Barmby P., Bureau M., Chapman S., Cho B.S., Chung A., Chung E.J., Chung H.-H., Clark C.J.R., Clements D.L., Davis T.A., de Looze I., Eden D.J., Athikkat-Eknath G., Ford G.P., Gao Y., Gear W., Gomez H.L., de Grijs R., He J., Ho L.C., Hughes T.M., Jiao S., Li Z.-Y., Kemper F., Kirchschlager F., Koch E.W., Kong A.K.H., Lee C.-H., Lin E.-T., Mairs S., Michałowski M.J., Pattle K., Peng Y.-J., Ragan S.E., Rawlings M.G., Rigopoulou D., Saintonge A., Schruba A., Tang X., Wang J.-F., Whitworth A.P., Wilson C.D., Yim K., Zhu M., 2021, ApJS, 257, 52; arXiv:2110.00011
August 2021: Scurvy and Sauerkraut, de Grijs R., 2021, All Hands (Australian National Maritime Museum volunteers' magazine), September 2021, Vol. 116, 14-16
August 2021: The curious tale of a well-travelled Wigan long-case clock, de Grijs R., 2021, Past Forward, 88, 6--7; pdf
August 2021: The VMC survey. XLIV. Mapping metallicity trends in the Large Magellanic Cloud using near-infrared passbands, Choudhury S., de Grijs R., Bekki K., Cioni M.-R.L., Ivanov V.D., van Loon J.T., Miller A.E., Niederhofer F., Oliveira J.M., Ripepi V., Sun N.-C., Subramanian S., 2021, MNRAS, 507, 4752; arXiv:2108.10529
August 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, 508, 245; arXiv:2108.07225
August 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, 257, 22; arXiv:2108.01212
29 July 2021: The Centre for Journalology (Canada) launched a "one stop shop" website of resources to tackle predatory journals; Richard contributed to its content review (Meet the team).
23 July 2021: Join us for a free webinar on How to choose the right journal (natural sciences) at 21:00 AEST; details, recording.
July 2021: We just completed our chapter, The Cosmology of David Bohm: Scientific and Theological Significance, for inclusion in an edited volume for the Science & Orthodoxy around the World collaboration. This was an interesting experience, bringing scientists and theologians together!
14 July 2021: This week's Stardust MQ podcast features an interview with Richard.
July 2021: European Longitude Prizes. III. The Unsolved Mystery of an Alleged Venetian Longitude Prize, de Grijs R., 2021, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, 24, 728; arXiv:2107.03613
July 2021: Non-Western efforts to solve the "Longitude Problem". I. China, de Grijs R., 2021, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, submitted
July 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, 921, 145; arXiv:2108.01213
July 2021: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines (Black hole--neutron star mergers), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, September 2021, pp. 52--57 (in Chinese; English version)
1 July 2021: Human space exploration gains momentum with Chinese advance, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article. Unfortuntely, this piece was heavily censored; this is the original article.
30 June 2021: Registrations for our ACAMAR-sponsored virtual workshop on The Future of Traditional Survey Science (22--24 September 2021) just went live!
June 2021: European Longitude Prizes. IV. Thomas Axe's Impossible Terms, de Grijs R., 2021, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, 24, 739; arXiv:2107.03614
17 June 2021: The results of the IAU elections have been announced; Richard will be Division C President (2021-2024) from August 2021.
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, History Essays | Spring 2021
June 2021: European Longitude Prizes. II. Astronomy, Religion and Engineering Solutions in the Dutch Republic, de Grijs R., 2021, J. Astron. Hist. Heritage, 24, 405; arXiv:2101.04760
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, 506, 150; arXiv:2011.02505
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, 505, 2020; arXiv:2104.08054
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
March 2021: Blame game: Restoration quarrels and the Anglo--Dutch wars, de Grijs R., 2021, Arquebusier, essay competition submission; doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.15501.46563
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, 38-43 (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, 88, 6--7; 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: 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
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