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= 2024 = LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS!
LATEST NEWS! LATEST NEWS! = 2024 =
April 2024: Of toerags and
spice boxes: sanitation at sea, de Grijs R., 2024,
Hektoen International, in press
April 2024: I have been invited
to speak at a conference on
The structure, formation,
and evolution of star clusters in Hangzhou (China),
27--29 April 2024;
Conference
website
April 2024: The origin of young
stellar populations in NGC 1783: Accretion of external
stars, Wang L., Deng L., Pang X., Wang L., de Grijs
R., Milone A.P., Li C., 2024, ApJ, in
press;
arXiv:2404.08047
April 2024: The GALAH survey:
Tracing the Milky Way's formation and evolution through RR
Lyrae stars, D'Orazi V., Storm N., Casey A.R., Braga
V.F., Zocchi A., Bono G., Fabrizio M., Sneden C., Massari D.,
Giribaldi R.E., Bergemann M., Campbell S.W., Casagrande L.,
de Grijs R., De Silva G., Lugaro M., Zucker D.B., Bragaglia
A., Feuillet D., Fiorentino G., Chaboyer B., Dall'Ora M.,
Marengo M., Martínez-Vázquez C.E., Matsunaga
N., Monelli M., Mullen J.P., Nataf D., Tantalo M., Thevenin
F., Vitello F.R., Kudritzki R.-P., Bland-Hawthorn J., Buder
S., Freeman K., Kos J., Lewis G.F., Lind K., Martell S.,
Sharma S., Stello D., Zwitter T., 2024, MNRAS, submitted
18 April 2024: I am due to deliver a
colloquium at Nanjing University (China) on
Unveiling
the complexities of massive star clusters
April 2024: Ship fever: A malignant
disease of a most dangerous kind?, de Grijs R., 2024,
Hektoen
International, Spring 2024 | Infectious Diseases
April 2024: AstroTalk: Behind the news
headlines (The search for extrasolar water is heating up,
literally!), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, June 2024, in
press (in Chinese;
English version)
April 2024: A foul "sailor's mouth" of
a different kind, de Grijs R., 2024,
Hektoen
International, Winter 2024 | History Essays
March 2024: New quasars behind the Magellanic
Clouds. II. Spectroscopic confirmation of 136 near-infared-selected
candidates, Ivanov V.D., Cioni M.-R.L., Dennefeld M., de Grijs R.,
Craig J.E.M., van Loon J.T., Pennock C., Maitra C., Haberl F., 2024,
A&A, in press
26 March 2024: Australian Geographic
attributed a few quotes on lunar eclipses to me despite not having
been in touch in at least a year:
What
is a lunar eclipse?
March 2024: The Cosmology of David
Bohm: Scientific and Theological Significance, de Grijs R.,
Costache D., 2024, Theology and Science, 22, 204; doi:
10.1080/14746700.2023.2294529
March 2024: William Dawes: Deep flaws and
sparks of brilliance, de Grijs R., 2024,
Hektoen International,
Winter 2024 | History Essays
11 March 2024: I was featured on today's
SpaceTime
podcast with Stuart Gary:
Weekly
overview
March 2024: My proposal to write a biography
of
Samuel Ward Flinders, brother of Matthew Flinders and tasked
with astronomical duties during H.M.S.
Investigator's
circumnavigation of Australia (1801--1803), has been approved for
development by
Routledge/Taylor
& Francis/CRC Physics; it is provisionally subtitled
The
other Flinders, Astronomer by Necessity and due for delivery by
September 2026
March 2024: Wigan's Queen of Spades,
de Grijs R., 2024,
Past Forward, 96, 8-9; selected as a
winning entry (
third prize) in the
2024 Barbara O'Neill Local History Writing Competition (Wigan, UK);
competition
link
February 2024: AstroTalk: Behind the news
headlines (Black hole "cannon fodder"), de Grijs
R., The Amateur Astronomer, March 2024, pp. 39-43 (in Chinese;
English version)
February 2024: At the crossroads of
astrophysics and cosmology. Period--luminosity relations in the
2020s, de Grijs R., Whitelock, P. A., Catelan, M. (eds), 2024,
Proc.
IAU Symp. 376. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
- China Space Station Telescope and Variable Star Studies,
Chen X., Wang S., Deng L., de Grijs R., Zhou X., Chen X., Zhang J.,
2024, Proc. IAU Symp. 376, eds de Grijs R., Whitelock P.A., Catelan
M. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press), pp. 319--327
8 February 2024: I released Lunar New Year greetings
(and an explanation of the prevailing mythology) in
today's
message to the ISSI-Beijing community.
February 2024: The GALAH survey: Elemental
abundances in open clusters using joint effective temperature and
surface gravity photometric priors, Beeson K.L., Kos J., de Grijs
R., Traven G., Bland-Hawthorn J., Zafar T., Zwitter T., De Silva G.M.,
2024, MNRAS, 529, 2483;
arXiv:2402.07748
31 January 2024: A
stargazer's guide to heavenly events in 2024: My recommendations
for night-sky events to observe this year, published in Macquarie
University's
Lighthouse
January 2024: The VMC Survey. L. Type II
Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds: Period--Luminosity relations in the
near-infrared bands, Sicignano T., Ripepi V., Marconi M., Molinaro
R., Bhardwaj A., Cioni M.-R.L., de Grijs R., Storm J., Groenewegen M.A.T.,
Ivanov V.D., De Somma G., 2023, A&A, in press;
arXiv:2401.12770
19 January 2024: Japan is about to land
its first lunar probe. As more nations race to the Moon, how will we
keep the peace?,
de Grijs R., 2024, The Conversation;
article, 2SER
The Daily interview
January 2024: The forgotten menace of long
naval patrols, de Grijs R., 2024,
Hektoen
International, Winter 2024 | History Essays
January 2024: The grim horrors of the
orlop deck, de Grijs R., 2024,
Hektoen
International, Winter 2024 | History Essays
December 2023: Extended Main Sequences in Star
Clusters (review), Li C., Milone A.P., Sun W., de Grijs R., 2024,
Fundamental Research, in press;
arXiv:2401.08062
News from previous years:
2023;
2022;
2021;
2020;
2019;
2018;
2017;
2016;
2015;
2014;
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