By Dr Simon Murphy

Journal articles

Roccatagliata V; Sicilia-Aguilar A; Kim M; Campbell-White J; Fang M; Murphy SJ; Wolf S; Lawson WA; Henning T; Bouwman J, 2024, 'Protoplanetary and debris disks in the η Chamaeleontis Association: A submillimeter survey obtained with APEX/LABOCA observations', Astronomy and Astrophysics, 682, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346655

Cronin-Coltsmann PF; Kennedy GM; Adam C; Kral Q; Lestrade JF; Marino S; Matrà L; Murphy SJ; Olofsson J; Wyatt MC, 2022, 'ALMA's view of the M-dwarf GSC 07396-00759's edge-on debris disc: AU Mic's coeval twin', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512, pp. 4752 - 4764, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac536

Lee J; Song I; Murphy SJ, 2022, 'Low-mass members of nearby young stellar moving groups from Gaia EDR3', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511, pp. 6179 - 6192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac358

Yong D; Da Costa GS; Bessell MS; Chiti A; Frebel A; Gao X; Lind K; MacKey AD; Marino AF; Murphy SJ; Nordlander T; Asplund M; Casey AR; Kobayashi C; Norris JE; Schmidt BP, 2021, 'High-resolution spectroscopic follow-up of the most metal-poor candidates from SkyMapper DR1.1', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507, pp. 4102 - 4119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2001

Yong D; Kobayashi C; Da Costa GS; Bessell MS; Chiti A; Frebel A; Lind K; Mackey AD; Nordlander T; Asplund M; Casey AR; Marino AF; Murphy SJ; Schmidt BP, 2021, 'r-Process elements from magnetorotational hypernovae', Nature, 595, pp. 223 - 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03611-2

Cordoni G; da Costa GS; Yong D; Mackey AD; Marino AF; Monty S; Nordlander T; Norris JE; Asplund M; Bessell MS; Casey AR; Frebel A; Lind K; Murphy SJ; Schmidt BP; Gao XD; Xylakis-Dornbusch T; Amarsi AM; Milone AP, 2021, 'Exploring the Galaxy’s halo and very metal-weak thick disc with SkyMapper and Gaia DR2', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 503, pp. 2539 - 2561, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3417

Lee J; Song I; Murphy S, 2020, '2MASS J15460752−6258042: A mid-M dwarf hosting a prolonged accretion disc', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494, pp. 62 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa689

Nguyen-Thanh D; Phan-Bao N; Murphy SJ; Bessell MS; Murphy S, 2020, 'Sporadic and intense accretion in a 1 Myr-old brown dwarf candidate', Astronomy and Astrophysics, 634, pp. a128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936810

Binks AS; Chalifour M; Kastner JH; Rodriguez D; Murphy SJ; Principe DA; Punzi K; Sacco GG; Hernández J, 2020, 'A kinematically unbiased, all-sky search for nearby, young, low-mass stars', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 491, pp. 215 - 234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3019

Kawka A; Simpson JD; Vennes S; Bessell MS; da Costa GS; Marino AF; Murphy SJ, 2020, 'The closest extremely low-mass white dwarf to the Sun', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 495, pp. L129 - L134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/MNRASL/SLAA068

Murphy SJ; Lawson WA; Onken CA; Yong D; Da Costa GS; Zhou G; Mamajek EE; Bell CPM; Bessell MS; Feinstein AD, 2019, 'THOR 42: A touchstone ∼24 Myr-old eclipsing binary spanning the fully-convective boundary', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 149, pp. 4902 - 4924, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3198

Da Costa GS; Bessell MS; Mackey AD; Nordlander T; Asplund M; Casey AR; Frebel A; Lind K; Marino AF; Murphy SJ; Norris JE; Schmidt BP; Yong D, 2019, 'The SkyMapper DR1.1 search for extremely metal-poor stars', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489, pp. 5900 - 5918, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2550

Nordlander T; Bessell MS; Da Costa GS; MacKey AD; Asplund M; Casey AR; Chiti A; Ezzeddine R; Frebel A; Lind K; Marino AF; Murphy SJ; Norris JE; Schmidt BP; Yong D, 2019, 'The lowest detected stellar Fe abundance: The halo star SMSS J160540.18-144323.1', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 488, pp. L109 - L113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slz109

Marino AF; Da Costa GS; Casey AR; Asplund M; Bessell MS; Frebel A; Keller SC; Lind K; Mackey AD; Murphy SJ; Nordlander T; Norris JE; Schmidt BP; Yong D, 2019, 'Keck HIRES spectroscopy of SkyMapper commissioning survey candidate extremely metal-poor stars', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485, pp. 5153 - 5167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz645

Flaherty K; Meredith Hughes A; Mamajek EE; Murphy SJ, 2019, 'The Planet Formation Potential around a 45 Myr Old Accreting M Dwarf', Astrophysical Journal, 872, http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf794

Jackman JAG; Wheatley PJ; Pugh CE; Kolotkov DY; Broomhall AM; Kennedy GM; Murphy SJ; Raddi R; Burleigh MR; Casewell SL; Eigmüller P; Gillen E; Günther MN; Jenkins JS; Louden T; McCormac J; Raynard L; Poppenhaeger K; Udry S; Watson CA; West RG, 2019, 'Detection of a giant flare displaying quasi-periodic pulsations from a pre-main-sequence M star by the Next Generation Transit Survey', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482, pp. 5553 - 5566, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3036

Murphy SJ; Mamajek EE; Bell CPM, 2018, 'WISE J080822.18-644357.3-A 45 Myr-old accreting M dwarf hosting a primordial disc', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476, pp. 3290 - 3302, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STY471

Wolf C; Onken CA; Luvaul LC; Schmidt BP; Bessell MS; Chang SW; Da Costa GS; MacKey D; Martin-Jones T; Murphy SJ; Preston T; Scalzo RA; Shao L; Smillie J; Tisserand P; White MC; Yuan F, 2018, 'SkyMapper Southern Survey: First Data Release (DR1)', Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2018.5

Bell CPM; Murphy SJ; Mamajek EE, 2017, 'A stellar census of the nearby, young 32 Orionis group', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 468, pp. 1198 - 1220, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx535

Deacon NR; Schlieder JE; Murphy SJ, 2016, 'A nearby young M dwarf with a wide, possibly planetary-mass companion', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457, pp. 3191 - 3199, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw172

Childress MJ; Tucker BE; Yuan F; Scalzo R; Ruiter A; Seitenzahl I; Zhang B; Schmidt B; Anguiano B; Aniyan S; Bayliss DDR; Bento J; Bessell M; Bian F; Davies R; Dopita M; Fogarty L; Fraser-McKelvie A; Freeman K; Kuruwita R; Medling AM; Murphy SJ; Owers M; Panther F; Sweet SM; Thomas AD; Zhou G, 2016, 'The ANU wifes supernova programme (AWSNAP)', Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2016.47

Murphy SJ; Lawson WA; Bento J, 2015, 'New members of the TWHydrae Association and two accreting M-dwarfs in Scorpius-Centaurus', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453, pp. 2220 - 2231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1745

Zhou G; Bayliss D; Hartman JD; Rabus M; Bakos G; Jordán A; Brahm R; Penev K; Csubry Z; Mancini L; Espinoza N; de Val-Borro M; Bhatti W; Ciceri S; Henning T; Schmidt B; Murphy SJ; Butler RP; Arriagada P; Shectman S; Crane J; Thompson I; Suc V; Noyes RW, 2015, 'A0.24+0.18 M⊙ double-lined eclipsing binary from the HATSouth survey', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451, pp. 2263 - 2277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1070

Murphy SJ; Lawson WA, 2015, 'New low-mass members of the Octans stellar association and an updated 30-40 Myr lithium age', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447, pp. 1267 - 1281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2450

Kennedy GM; Murphy SJ; Lisse CM; Ménard F; Sitko ML; Wyatt MC; Bayliss DDR; Demeo FE; Crawford KB; Kim DL; Rudy RJ; Russell RW; Sibthorpe B; Skinner MA; Zhou G, 2014, 'Evolution from protoplanetary to debris discs: The transition disc around hd 166191', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438, pp. 3299 - 3309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2435

Melis C; Zuckerman B; Rhee J; Song I; Murphy SJ; Bessell M, 2013, 'Copious Amounts of Hot and Cold Dust Orbiting the Main Sequence A-type Stars HD 131488 and HD 121191', The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics, 778, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/778/1/12

Kerzendorf WE; Yong D; Schmidt BP; Simon JD; Jeffery CS; Anderson J; Podsiadlowski P; Gal-Yam A; Silverman JM; Filippenko AV; Nomoto K; Murphy SJ; Bessell MS; Venn KA; Foley RJ, 2013, 'A high-resolution spectroscopic search for the remaining donor for Tycho'S supernova', Astrophysical Journal, 774, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/774/2/99

Rodriguez D; Zuckerman B; Kastner J; Bessell M; Faherty J; Murphy SJ, 2013, 'The GALEX Nearby Young-Star Survey', The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics, 774, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/774/2/101

Murphy SJ; Lawson WA; Bessell MS, 2013, 'Re-examining the membership and origin of the Ε Cha association', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 435, pp. 1325 - 1349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1375

Norris JE; Bessell MS; Yong D; Christlieb N; Barklem PS; Asplund M; Murphy SJ; Beers TC; Frebel A; Ryan SG, 2013, 'The most metal-poor stars. I. Discovery, data, and atmospheric parameters', Astrophysical Journal, 762, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/762/1/25

Melis C; Zuckerman B; Rhee JH; Song I; Murphy SJ; Bessell MS, 2012, 'Rapid disappearance of a warm, dusty circumstellar disk', Nature, 486, pp. 74 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11210

Kastner JH; Thompson EA; Montez R; Murphy SJ; Bessell MS; Sacco GG, 2012, '2M1155-79 (= T chamaeleontis B): A Low-mass, wide-separation companion to the nearby, "old" T Tauri star T chamaeleontis', Astrophysical Journal Letters, 747, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/747/2/L23

Bessell M; Murphy S, 2012, 'Spectrophotometric libraries, revised photonic passbands, and zero points for UBVRI, Hipparcos, and tycho photometry', Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 124, pp. 140 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/664083

Murphy SJ; Lawson WA; Bessell MS, 2012, 'RX J0942.7−7726AB: an isolated pre-main-sequence wide binary', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 424, pp. 625 - 634, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21243.x

Riedel AR; Murphy SJ; Henry TJ; Melis C; Jao WC; Subasavage JP, 2011, 'The solar neighborhood. XXVI. AP Col: The closest (8.4pc) pre-main-sequence star', Astronomical Journal, 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/142/4/104

Murphy SJ; Lawson WA; Bessell MS; Bayliss DDR, 2011, 'Episodic disk accretion in the halo of the 'old' pre-main-sequence cluster eta Chamaeleontis', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society -Letters, 411, pp. 51 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2010.00992.x

Murphy SJ; Lawson WA; Bessell MS, 2010, 'First detection of a low-mass halo around the young open cluster ç Chamaeleontis', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society -Letters, 406, pp. L50 - L54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2010.00879.x

Prior S; Da Costa G; Keller S; Murphy SJ, 2009, 'Extending the Virgo Stellar Stream with SEKBO Survey RR Lyrae Stars', The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics, 691, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/691/1/306

Keller SC; Murphy S; Prior S; DaCosta G; Schmidt B, 2008, 'Revealing substructure in the galactic halo: The sekbo RR Lyrae survey', Astrophysical Journal, 678, pp. 851 - 864, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/526516

Conference Papers

Murphy SJ; Lawson WA; Bento J, 2015, 'New Low-mass Accretors in the Scorpius-Centaurus OB Association', in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, pp. 58 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743921315006031

Melis C; Zuckerman B; Rhee JH; Song I; Murphy SJ; Bessell MS, 2012, 'Determining the origin of inner planetary system debris orbiting the dustiest main sequence stars', in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, pp. 273 - 277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743921313012970

Murphy SJ; Lawson WA; Bessell MS, 2010, 'Revealing the Chamaeleon: First detection of a low-mass stellar halo around the young open cluster Eta Chamaeleontis', http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2642v1

Murphy SJ; Keller SC; Schmidt B; Tisserand P; Bessell M; Francis P; Costa GD, 2008, 'SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: a valuable resource for stellar astrophysics', http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1770v2

Murphy SJ; Bessell MS, 2008, 'Towards a complete census of young stars in the solar neighbourhood with SkyMapper', http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1611v1

Preprints

Currie T; Brandt GM; Brandt TD; Lacy B; Burrows A; Guyon O; Tamura M; Liu RY; Sagynbayeva S; Tobin T; Chilcote J; Groff T; Marois C; Thompson W; Murphy S; Kuzuhara M; Lawson K; Lozi J; Deo V; Vievard S; Skaf N; Uyama T; Jovanovic N; Martinache F; Kasdin NJ; Kudo T; McElwain M; Janson M; Wisniewski J; Hodapp K; Nishikawa J; Helminiak K; Kwon J; Hayashi M, 2022, Direct Imaging and Astrometric Detection of a Gas Giant Planet Orbiting an Accelerating Star, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2212.00034

Kerr R; Kraus AL; Murphy SJ; Krolikowski DM; Bedding TR; Rizzuto AC, 2022, SPYGLASS. III. The Fornax-Horologium Association and its Traceback History within the Austral Complex, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2211.00123

Kerr R; Kraus AL; Murphy SJ; Krolikowski DM; Offner SSR; Tofflemire BM; Rizzuto AC, 2022, SPYGLASS. II. The Multi-Generational and Multi-Origin Star Formation History of Cepheus Far North, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2209.12959

Barac N; Bedding TR; Murphy SJ; Hey DR, 2022, Revisiting bright delta Scuti stars and their period-luminosity relation with TESS and Gaia DR3, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2207.00343

Ge J; Zhang H; Zang W; Deng H; Mao S; Xie J-W; Liu H-G; Zhou J-L; Willis K; Huang C; Howell SB; Feng F; Zhu J; Yao X; Liu B; Aizawa M; Zhu W; Li Y-P; Ma B; Ye Q; Yu J; Xiang M; Yu C; Liu S; Yang M; Wang M-T; Shi X; Fang T; Zong W; Liu J; Zhang Y; Zhang L; El-Badry K; Shen R; Tam P-HT; Hu Z; Yang Y; Zou Y-C; Wu J-L; Lei W-H; Wei J-J; Wu X-F; Sun T-R; Wang F-Y; Zhang B-B; Xu D; Yang Y-P; Li W-X; Xiang D-F; Wang X; Wang T; Zhang B; Jia P; Yuan H; Zhang J; Wang SX; Gan T; Wang W; Zhao Y; Liu Y; Wei C; Kang Y; Yang B; Qi C; Liu X; Zhang Q; Zhu Y; Zhou D; Zhang C; Yu Y; Zhang Y; Li Y; Tang Z; Wang C; Wang F; Li W; Cheng P; Shen C; Li B; Pan Y; Yang S; Gao W; Song Z; Wang J; Zhang H; Chen C; Wang H; Zhang J; Wang Z; Zeng F; Zheng Z; Zhu J; Guo Y; Zhang Y; Li Y; Wen L; Feng J; Chen W; Chen K; Han X; Yang Y; Wang H; Duan X; Huang J; Liang H; Bi S; Gai N; Ge Z; Guo Z; Huang Y; Li G; Li H; Li T; Yuxi ; Lu ; Rix H-W; Shi J; Song F; Tang Y; Ting Y-S; Wu T; Wu Y; Yang T; Yin Q-Z; Gould A; Lee C-U; Dong S; Yee JC; Shvartzvald Y; Yang H; Kuang R; Zhang J; Liao S; Qi Z; Yang J; Zhang R; Jiang C; Ou J-W; Li Y; Beck P; Bedding TR; Campante TL; Chaplin WJ; Christensen-Dalsgaard J; García RA; Gaulme P; Gizon L; Hekker S; Huber D; Khanna S; Li Y; Mathur S; Miglio A; Mosser B; Ong JMJ; Santos ÂRG; Stello D; Bowman DM; Lares-Martiz M; Murphy S; Niu J-S; Ma X-Y; Molnár L; Fu J-N; De Cat P; Su J; consortium TE, 2022, ET White Paper: To Find the First Earth 2.0, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2206.06693

Barbara NH; Bedding TR; Fulcher BD; Murphy SJ; Van Reeth T, 2022, Classifying Kepler light curves for 12,000 A and F stars using supervised feature-based machine learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2205.03020

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