2024

• Extreme Matter in Extreme Stars 09/27/24
• Kilonova Seekers paper & publicity 08/26/24
• Astrophiz 194: Explosive Neutron Stars 06/15/24
• System parameters for IGR J17498—2921 03/22/24
• GOTO at Transients Down Under 02/02/24
• First GRB optical counterpart with GOTO 01/08/24

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2023

• Heavy element production in a compact object merger 10/17/23
• Launching Kilonova Seekers 07/12/23
• Twitter feed is down 07/06/23
• June is meeting month 06/26/23
• The peculiar GRB 201015A 05/31/23
• CeNAM Frontiers of Nuclear Astrophysics 05/29/23
• GOTO-South telescope deployment 04/21/23
• Updated Sco X-1 ephemeris 01/31/23

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2022

• Progress on the GOTO-South site 12/12/22
• GOTO science meeting 10/19/22
• Neutron-star properties from bursts with concord 10/07/22
• Welcome Felipe 08/14/22
• BBC coverage of GOTO project 07/21/22
• MSU, East Lansing MI 06/03/22
• JINA-CEE Frontiers of Nuclear Astrophysics 05/27/22
• Ohio University, Athens OH 05/20/22
• Princeton GI/PCTS Weather and Climate on Neutron Stars meeting 04/08/22
• Yik Lun (Travis) Mong thesis submission 03/22/22
• AAL/eROSITA collaboration workshop 02/23/22
• Neutron star cooling workshop at INT Seattle 02/18/22

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2021

• Searching for X-ray pulsations from Sco X-1 10/18/21
• Searching for GRB optical counterparts with GOTO 09/08/21
• Outburst behaviour in short period AM CVn systems 02/11/21
• MINBAR burst interface visualisation 02/05/21
• Rapidly-rotating neutron stars at COSPAR '21 01/30/21

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2020

• GOTO presentations at SPIE 12/18/20
• Monash suspends all on-campus activities 11/26/20
• Keeping the 'beat' of nuclear burning 10/20/20
• Observing outburst onset in a low-mass X-ray binary 06/08/20
• MINBAR paper accepted! 04/30/20
• Multi-epoch model-observation burst comparisons for GS 1826—238 04/17/20
• Monash suspends all on-campus activities 03/25/20

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2019

• Fingerprinting X-ray bursters 09/16/19
• Bursting the Bubble workshop 07/01/19
• A brand-new bursting X-ray binary 04/16/19
• Australia-China Workshop on Astrophysics 04/05/19
• Cavecchi visit 01/21/19

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2018

• Measuring neutrino losses in thermonuclear bursts 11/05/18
• Australia's partnership in the LSST 10/31/18
• Mt. Kent (QLD) as a host for for GOTO-South? 08/24/18
• Nuclear astrophysics in the mountains 06/29/18
• BERN'18 workshop, Prato, Italy 06/15/18
• A new burst oscillation source 06/01/18
• JINA-CEE Frontiers of Nuclear Astrophysics 05/30/18
• GOTO team meeting @ Warwick U. 04/13/18
• The influence of stellar spin on thermonuclear runaways 04/09/18
• Simulating X-ray bursts during a transient accretion event 03/20/18
• Surveying candidate sites for GOTO-South 01/18/18

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2017

• Thermonuclear bursts in the spotlight 12/15/17
• Cracking the code of burst rates 11/29/17
• IAU Symposium #339 on Time-Domain Astronomy 11/24/17
• Detection of an optical counterpart to a binary neutron star merger 10/18/17
• 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics to LIGO team 10/04/17
• Analysing the cooling tails of thermonuclear bursts 09/05/17
• MINBAR meetings lead to new burst source 07/22/17
• GOTO La Palma site inauguration 07/10/17
• Reference bursts for model comparisons 03/24/17

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2016

• The last outburst of a millisecond pulsar? 12/05/16
• Understanding burst oscillations 10/31/16
• Seeking postdoctoral associates in gravitational wave astronomy 10/14/16
• ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery approved 09/08/16
• Intermittent dipping in an LMXB 07/07/16
• Thermonuclear bursts in Japan 06/30/16
• JINA-CEE International Symposium on Neutron Stars in the Multi-Messenger Era: Prospects & Challenges 05/30/16
• Tuning up for Gravitational Wave Discoveries part II 05/03/16
• First detection of gravitational waves 02/11/16

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2015

• Kepler predictions for thermonuclear bursts 12/18/15
• First meeting of new ISSI burst team 12/18/15
• Hunting Gravitational Waves with Multi-Messenger Counterparts: Australia's Role 11/16/15
• AEI-ICTS workshop on gravitational wave astronomy 11/10/15
• Explainer: what is a neutron star? | The Conversation 09/01/15
• Astronomy committee meets to decide access to Australia's world-class telescopes 07/23/15
• 40 years of X-ray bursts: Extreme explosions in dense environments 06/25/15
• Gravitational wave explorer seeks light of merging dead stars 06/09/15
• Searches for gravitational waves from Sco X-1 05/14/15
• Hauke's thesis accepted; postdoctoral position 03/09/15
• The remarkable RXTE observations of the Rapid Burster 02/17/15
• Astronomy Decadal Plan 2016—25 exposure draft 01/27/15
• Varying accretion rate during bursts: the sequel 01/12/15
• Hauke's second thesis paper and postdoctoral position 01/12/15
• Hauke's second thesis paper and postdoctoral position 01/12/15
• Shakya's thesis accepted 01/12/15

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2014

• MoCA vacation scholarships 09/17/14
• Physics of Neutron stars 2014 08/06/14
• ASA's Annual Science Meeting @ Macquarie U. 07/28/14
• Catching a gravitational wave 06/25/14
• Influence of accretion geometry on bursts 06/23/14
• Australian Astronomy Decadal Plan 2016—25 02/06/14
• Improved precision on Sco X-1 orbital parameters 01/06/14

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2013

• Second meeting of new ISSI burst team @ Monash 09/25/13
• ASA's Annual Science Meeting @ Monash 08/02/13
• Varying accretion rate during bursts 06/03/13
• Double vision 04/16/13
• Slow rotation in the Rapid Burster? 02/28/13
• X-ray binaries in Bormio 01/21/13

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2012

• First meeting of new ISSI burst team 12/18/12
• High-Energy Astrophysics Telecons resume 10/23/12
• Second LOFT Science Meeting 09/25/12
• New millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J17498-2921 08/20/12
• Monash Burst Workshop 07/27/12
• COSPAR 2012 07/20/12
• ASA 2012 07/06/12
• GWPAW 2012, Hannover, Germany 06/11/12
• Long bursts and the neutron star EOS 03/30/12
• Second ISSI meeting 03/20/12
• Aspen winter transients meeting 01/28/12
• Brains Matter interview 01/22/12
• Vale RXTE 01/13/12

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2011

• A LOFTy prospect 11/25/11
• Diamond planet found | The Conversation 08/26/11
• Sco X-1 observing, La Palma 07/02/11
• March meetings 04/11/11
• GWPAW, Milwaukee WI 02/04/11

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2010

• AIP congress 2010 12/15/10
• Accretion disk disruption from a superexpansion burst 10/13/10
• Search for spectral features in PRE bursts 09/27/10
• Puzzling behaviour in IGR J17473-2721 09/01/10
• July is meeting month 08/03/10
• Timing the pulsar in IGR J00291+5934: the race is on! 06/23/10
• Ignition depth for 4U 1728-34 bursts 06/14/10
• Short recurrence time bursts 05/20/10
• Astronomical databases 04/08/10
• Hawaii - Sydney 03/16/10
• Tuning up for Gravitational Wave Discoveries 02/18/10

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2009

• It's deja vu, all over again 10/30/09
• The apparent neutron-star radius during bursts 09/01/09
• Thermonuclear bursts at the ASA 07/09/09
• Defining the neutron star crust meeting 05/25/09
• International Year of Astronomy 2009 03/02/09

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2008

• A plethora of pulsars 10/08/08
• ASA 2008, Perth WA 09/23/08
• New outburst of IGR J17473-2721 08/14/08
• Burst catalog paper accepted 06/17/08
• US/Netherlands tour 05/01/08
• Biases for neutron-star mass, radius and distance measurements 03/18/08
• The Clocked Burster is running fast 01/03/08

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2007

• Model lightcurves for bursts from GS 1826-24 11/09/07
• Netherlands visit 10/22/07
• The Variable Warm Absorber in Circinus X-1 09/24/07
• NASA Astronomers Find Bizarre Planet-Mass Object Orbiting Neutron Star 09/17/07
• An X-ray jet in Circinus X-1 07/13/07
• Two accretion-powered millisecond pulsars active in June 07/05/07
• HETE J1900.1-2455 is returning to quiescence 06/06/07
• Fe Kα Lines in MCVs 05/07/07
• ASP2011 Measurement techniques 04/04/07
• SINS summer school 01/23/07

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2006

• Texas in Australia 12/18/06
• 2006 Transit of Mercury 12/04/06
• Intermittent pulsations in HETE J1900.1-2455 09/27/06
• HEAT is... well, hot 09/15/06
• Thermonuclear bursts observed by RXTE 08/15/06
• Helium-rich bursts and the distance to SAX J1808.4-3658 07/11/06
• Thermonuclear bursts from the candidate ultracompact binary 1A 1246-588 06/21/06
• MIRAX workshop proceedings 05/03/06
• X-ray data analysis 03/21/06

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2005

• MIRAX workshop, Brazil 12/14/05
• Korea | Sydney | 4U 1636-536 11/14/05
• Australia-Italy Workshop on GW Detection 10/10/05
• IGR J00291+5934 in the news 09/16/05
• Texas in Australia 2006 07/27/05
• Suzaku (aka ASTRO-EII) launched 07/10/05
• ASA 2005 07/09/05
• Discovery of pulsations in the X-ray transient 4U 1901+03 06/10/05
• AAS #206, Minneapolis MN 05/31/05
• Compact Stellar X-ray Sources 05/05/05

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2004

• New millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J00291+5934 12/07/04
• Analysing astronomical data under Mac OS X 11/23/04
• Australian tour 2004 10/05/04
• HEAD meeting 2004 09/13/04
• An X-ray Jet in CH Cygni 08/10/04
• The optical counterpart of XTE J1709-267 07/30/04
• A frequency glitch in an accreting pulsar 07/09/04
• New results from the 'Clocked Burster' GS 1826-24 01/03/04

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2003

• Gravitational waves may set speed limit for pulsar spin 07/04/03
• Gravitational waves may set speed limit for pulsar spin 06/04/03

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2002

• Going, going, almost gone 05/24/02

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