2025

• YITP neutron-star workshop 30 January

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2024

• 2024 EOY paper roundup 18 December
• INT/IReNA workshop on neutron stars 13 December
• International Space Science Institute 22 November
• Extreme Matter in Extreme Stars 27 September
• Kilonova Seekers paper & publicity 26 August
• Astrophiz 194: Explosive Neutron Stars 15 June
• System parameters for IGR J17498—2921 22 March
• GOTO at Transients Down Under 2 February
• First GRB optical counterpart with GOTO 8 January

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2023

• Heavy element production in a compact object merger 17 October
• Launching Kilonova Seekers 12 July
• Twitter feed is down 6 July
• June is meeting month 26 June
• The peculiar GRB 201015A 31 May
• CeNAM Frontiers of Nuclear Astrophysics 29 May
• GOTO-South telescope deployment 21 April
• Updated Sco X-1 ephemeris 31 January

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2022

• Progress on the GOTO-South site 12 December
• GOTO science meeting 19 October
• Neutron-star properties from bursts with concord 7 October
• Welcome Felipe 14 August
• BBC coverage of GOTO project 21 July
• MSU, East Lansing MI 3 June
• JINA-CEE Frontiers of Nuclear Astrophysics 27 May
• Ohio University, Athens OH 20 May
• Princeton GI/PCTS Weather and Climate on Neutron Stars meeting 8 April
• Yik Lun (Travis) Mong thesis submission 22 March
• AAL/eROSITA collaboration workshop 23 February
• Neutron star cooling workshop at INT Seattle 18 February

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2021

• Searching for X-ray pulsations from Sco X-1 18 October
• Searching for GRB optical counterparts with GOTO 8 September
• Outburst behaviour in short period AM CVn systems 11 February
• MINBAR burst interface visualisation 5 February
• Rapidly-rotating neutron stars at COSPAR '21 30 January

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2020

• GOTO presentations at SPIE 18 December
• Monash suspends all on-campus activities 26 November
• Keeping the 'beat' of nuclear burning 20 October
• Observing outburst onset in a low-mass X-ray binary 8 June
• MINBAR paper accepted! 30 April
• Multi-epoch model-observation burst comparisons for GS 1826—238 17 April
• Monash suspends all on-campus activities 25 March

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2019

• Fingerprinting X-ray bursters 16 September
• Bursting the Bubble workshop 1 July
• A brand-new bursting X-ray binary 16 April
• Australia-China Workshop on Astrophysics 5 April
• Cavecchi visit 21 January

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2018

• Measuring neutrino losses in thermonuclear bursts 5 November
• Australia's partnership in the LSST 31 October
• Mt. Kent (QLD) as a host for for GOTO-South? 24 August
• Nuclear astrophysics in the mountains 29 June
• BERN'18 workshop, Prato, Italy 15 June
• A new burst oscillation source 1 June
• JINA-CEE Frontiers of Nuclear Astrophysics 30 May
• GOTO team meeting @ Warwick U. 13 April
• The influence of stellar spin on thermonuclear runaways 9 April
• Simulating X-ray bursts during a transient accretion event 20 March
• Surveying candidate sites for GOTO-South 18 January

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2017

• Thermonuclear bursts in the spotlight 15 December
• Cracking the code of burst rates 29 November
• IAU Symposium #339 on Time-Domain Astronomy 24 November
• Detection of an optical counterpart to a binary neutron star merger 18 October
• 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics to LIGO team 4 October
• Analysing the cooling tails of thermonuclear bursts 5 September
• MINBAR meetings lead to new burst source 22 July
• GOTO La Palma site inauguration 10 July
• Reference bursts for model comparisons 24 March

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2016

• The last outburst of a millisecond pulsar? 5 December
• Understanding burst oscillations 31 October
• Seeking postdoctoral associates in gravitational wave astronomy 14 October
• ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery approved 8 September
• Intermittent dipping in an LMXB 7 July
• Thermonuclear bursts in Japan 30 June
• JINA-CEE International Symposium on Neutron Stars in the Multi-Messenger Era: Prospects & Challenges 30 May
• Tuning up for Gravitational Wave Discoveries part II 3 May
• First detection of gravitational waves 11 February

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2015

• Kepler predictions for thermonuclear bursts 18 December
• First meeting of new ISSI burst team 18 December
• Hunting Gravitational Waves with Multi-Messenger Counterparts: Australia's Role 16 November
• AEI-ICTS workshop on gravitational wave astronomy 10 November
• Explainer: what is a neutron star? | The Conversation 1 September
• Astronomy committee meets to decide access to Australia's world-class telescopes 23 July
• 40 years of X-ray bursts: Extreme explosions in dense environments 25 June
• Gravitational wave explorer seeks light of merging dead stars 9 June
• Searches for gravitational waves from Sco X-1 14 May
• Hauke's thesis accepted; postdoctoral position 9 March
• The remarkable RXTE observations of the Rapid Burster 17 February
• Astronomy Decadal Plan 2016—25 exposure draft 27 January
• Varying accretion rate during bursts: the sequel 12 January
• Hauke's second thesis paper and postdoctoral position 12 January
• Hauke's second thesis paper and postdoctoral position 12 January
• Shakya's thesis accepted 12 January

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2014

• MoCA vacation scholarships 17 September
• Physics of Neutron stars 2014 6 August
• ASA's Annual Science Meeting @ Macquarie U. 28 July
• Catching a gravitational wave 25 June
• Influence of accretion geometry on bursts 23 June
• Australian Astronomy Decadal Plan 2016—25 6 February
• Improved precision on Sco X-1 orbital parameters 6 January

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2013

• Second meeting of new ISSI burst team @ Monash 25 September
• ASA's Annual Science Meeting @ Monash 2 August
• Varying accretion rate during bursts 3 June
• Double vision 16 April
• Slow rotation in the Rapid Burster? 28 February
• X-ray binaries in Bormio 21 January

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2012

• First meeting of new ISSI burst team 18 December
• High-Energy Astrophysics Telecons resume 23 October
• Second LOFT Science Meeting 25 September
• New millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J17498-2921 20 August
• Monash Burst Workshop 27 July
• COSPAR 2012 20 July
• ASA 2012 6 July
• GWPAW 2012, Hannover, Germany 11 June
• Long bursts and the neutron star EOS 30 March
• Second ISSI meeting 20 March
• Aspen winter transients meeting 28 January
• Brains Matter interview 22 January
• Vale RXTE 13 January

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2011

• A LOFTy prospect 25 November
• Diamond planet found | The Conversation 26 August
• Sco X-1 observing, La Palma 2 July
• March meetings 11 April
• GWPAW, Milwaukee WI 4 February

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2010

• AIP congress 2010 15 December
• Accretion disk disruption from a superexpansion burst 13 October
• Search for spectral features in PRE bursts 27 September
• Puzzling behaviour in IGR J17473-2721 1 September
• July is meeting month 3 August
• Timing the pulsar in IGR J00291+5934: the race is on! 23 June
• Ignition depth for 4U 1728-34 bursts 14 June
• Short recurrence time bursts 20 May
• Astronomical databases 8 April
• Hawaii - Sydney 16 March
• Tuning up for Gravitational Wave Discoveries 18 February

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2009

• It's deja vu, all over again 30 October
• The apparent neutron-star radius during bursts 1 September
• Thermonuclear bursts at the ASA 9 July
• Defining the neutron star crust meeting 25 May
• International Year of Astronomy 2009 2 March

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2008

• A plethora of pulsars 8 October
• ASA 2008, Perth WA 23 September
• New outburst of IGR J17473-2721 14 August
• Burst catalog paper accepted 17 June
• US/Netherlands tour 1 May
• Biases for neutron-star mass, radius and distance measurements 18 March
• The Clocked Burster is running fast 3 January

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2007

• Model lightcurves for bursts from GS 1826-24 9 November
• Netherlands visit 22 October
• The Variable Warm Absorber in Circinus X-1 24 September
• NASA Astronomers Find Bizarre Planet-Mass Object Orbiting Neutron Star 17 September
• An X-ray jet in Circinus X-1 13 July
• Two accretion-powered millisecond pulsars active in June 5 July
• HETE J1900.1-2455 is returning to quiescence 6 June
• Fe Kα Lines in MCVs 7 May
• ASP2011 Measurement techniques 4 April
• SINS summer school 23 January

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2006

• Texas in Australia 18 December
• 2006 Transit of Mercury 4 December
• Intermittent pulsations in HETE J1900.1-2455 27 September
• HEAT is... well, hot 15 September
• Thermonuclear bursts observed by RXTE 15 August
• Helium-rich bursts and the distance to SAX J1808.4-3658 11 July
• Thermonuclear bursts from the candidate ultracompact binary 1A 1246-588 21 June
• MIRAX workshop proceedings 3 May
• X-ray data analysis 21 March

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2005

• MIRAX workshop, Brazil 14 December
• Korea | Sydney | 4U 1636-536 14 November
• Australia-Italy Workshop on GW Detection 10 October
• IGR J00291+5934 in the news 16 September
• Texas in Australia 2006 27 July
• Suzaku (aka ASTRO-EII) launched 10 July
• ASA 2005 9 July
• Discovery of pulsations in the X-ray transient 4U 1901+03 10 June
• AAS #206, Minneapolis MN 31 May
• Compact Stellar X-ray Sources 5 May

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2004

• New millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J00291+5934 7 December
• Analysing astronomical data under Mac OS X 23 November
• Australian tour 2004 5 October
• HEAD meeting 2004 13 September
• An X-ray Jet in CH Cygni 10 August
• The optical counterpart of XTE J1709-267 30 July
• A frequency glitch in an accreting pulsar 9 July
• New results from the 'Clocked Burster' GS 1826-24 3 January

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2003

• Gravitational waves may set speed limit for pulsar spin 4 July
• Gravitational waves may set speed limit for pulsar spin 4 June

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2002

• Going, going, almost gone 24 May

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