Dr Simon Murphy

Dr Simon Murphy

Lecturer
  • PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012, Australian National University
Canberra
School of Science

I was awarded my PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Australian National University in 2012. examined populations of young stars in the southern sky, particularly around the nearby open clusters Eta and Epsilon Chamaeleontis. During 2013-2014 I was the Gliese Postdoctoral Fellow at the , Germany, where I identified new stellar moving group members using data from the . I returned to Australia in 2015 to work on the ANU and in 2016 I took up a Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Canberra. I am now a Lecturer in Astrophysics in the School of Science where I and into young, low-mass stars in the Solar neighbourhood.

Location
Room 118 Building 26, School of Science
  • Journal articles | 2024
    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,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Bedding TR; Murphy SJ; Crawford C; Hey DR; Huber D; Kjeldsen H; Li Y; Mann AW; Torres G; White TR; Zhou G, 2023, 'TESS Observations of the Pleiades Cluster: A Nursery for δ Scuti Stars', Astrophysical Journal Letters, 946, pp. L10 - L10,
    Journal articles | 2023
    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 SJ; 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; Hełminiak K; Kwon J; Hayashi M, 2023, 'Direct imaging and astrometric detection of a gas giant planet orbiting an accelerating star', Science, 380, pp. 198 - 203,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Henriksen AI; Antoci V; Saio H; Cantiello M; Kjeldsen H; Kurtz DW; Murphy SJ; Mathur S; García RA; Santos ÂRG, 2023, 'Rotational modulation in A and F stars: magnetic stellar spots or convective core rotation?', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520, pp. 216 - 232,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Southworth J; Murphy SJ; Pavlovski K, 2023, 'δScuti pulsations in the bright Pleiades eclipsing binary HD 23642', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 520, pp. L53 - L57,
    Journal articles | 2022
    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,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Kerr R; Kraus AL; Murphy SJ; Krolikowski DM; Offner SSR; Tofflemire BM; Rizzuto AC, 2022, 'SPYGLASS. II. The Multigenerational and Multiorigin Star Formation History of Cepheus Far North', Astrophysical Journal, 941,
    Journal articles | 2022
    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,
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'SPYGLASS. III. The Fornax-Horologium Association and Its Traceback History within the Austral Complex', Astrophysical Journal, 941,
    Journal articles | 2021
    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,
    Journal articles | 2021
    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,
    Journal articles | 2021
    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,
    Journal articles | 2020
    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,
    Journal articles | 2020
    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,
    Journal articles | 2020
    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,
    Journal articles | 2020
    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,
    Journal articles | 2019
    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,
    Journal articles | 2019
    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,
    Journal articles | 2019
    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,
    Journal articles | 2019
    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,
    Journal articles | 2019
    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 ∼24Myr-old eclipsing binary spanning the fully-convective boundary', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 149, pp. 4902 - 4924,
    Journal articles | 2019
    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,
    Journal articles | 2018
    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,
    Journal articles | 2018
    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,
    Journal articles | 2017
    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,
    Journal articles | 2016
    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,
    Journal articles | 2016
    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,
    Journal articles | 2015
    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,
    Journal articles | 2015
    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,
    Journal articles | 2015
    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,
    Journal articles | 2014
    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,
    Journal articles | 2013
    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,
    Journal articles | 2013
    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,
    Journal articles | 2013
    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,
    Journal articles | 2013
    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,
    Journal articles | 2013
    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,
    Journal articles | 2012
    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,
    Journal articles | 2012
    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,
    Journal articles | 2012
    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,
    Journal articles | 2012
    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,
    Journal articles | 2011
    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,
    Journal articles | 2011
    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,
    Journal articles | 2010
    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,
    Journal articles | 2009
    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,
    Journal articles | 2008
    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,
  • Preprints | 2023
    Scutt OJ; Murphy SJ; Nielsen MB; Davies GR; Bedding TR; Lyttle AJ, 2023, Asteroseismology of $\delta$ Scuti stars: emulating model grids using a neural network, ,
    Preprints | 2023
    2023, $\delta$ Scuti pulsations in the bright Pleiades eclipsing binary HD 23642, ,
    Preprints | 2023
    2023, Rotational modulation in A and F stars: Magnetic stellar spots or convective core rotation?, ,
    Preprints | 2022
    Barac N; Bedding TR; Murphy SJ; Hey DR, 2022, Revisiting bright delta Scuti stars and their period-luminosity relation with TESS and Gaia DR3, ,
    Preprints | 2022
    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, ,
    Preprints | 2022
    Cronin-Coltsmann PF; Kennedy GM; Adam C; Kral Q; Lestrade J-F; 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, ,
    Preprints | 2022
    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, ,
    Preprints | 2022
    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, ,
    Preprints | 2022
    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, ,
    Preprints | 2022
    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, ,
    Preprints | 2022
    Li Y; Bedding TR; Murphy SJ; Stello D; Chen Y; Huber D; Joyce M; Marks D; Zhang X; Bi S; Colman IL; Hayden MR; Hey DR; Li G; Montet BT; Sharma S; Wu Y, 2022, Discovery of post-mass-transfer helium-burning red giants using asteroseismology, ,
    Preprints | 2022
    2022, TESS observations of the Pleiades cluster: a nursery for delta Scuti stars, ,
    Preprints | 2021
    2021, High resolution spectroscopic follow-up of the most metal-poor candidates from SkyMapper DR1.1, ,
    Preprints | 2021
    2021, R-Process elements from magnetorotational hypernovae, ,
    Preprints | 2020
    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, 2020, Exploring the Galaxy's halo and very metal-weak thick disk with SkyMapper and Gaia DR2, ,
    Preprints | 2020
    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, ,
    Preprints | 2020
    Murphy SJ; Gray RO; Corbally CJ; Kuehn C; Bedding TR; Killam J, 2020, The Discovery of lambda Bootis Stars -- The Southern Survey II, ,
    Preprints | 2020
    Nguyen-Thanh D; Phan-Bao N; Murphy SJ; Bessell MS, 2020, Sporadic and intense accretion in a 1 Myr-old brown dwarf candidate, ,
    Preprints | 2019
    Bedding TR; Hey DR; Murphy SJ, 2019, A Dance with Dragons: TESS reveals $\alpha$ Draconis is a detached eclipsing binary, ,
    Preprints | 2019
    Binks AS; Chalifour M; Kastner JH; Rodriguez D; Murphy SJ; Principe DA; Punzi K; Sacco GG; Hernández J, 2019, A kinematically unbiased, all-sky search for nearby, young, low-mass stars, ,
    Preprints | 2019
    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, ,
    Preprints | 2019
    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, ,
    Preprints | 2019
    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 $\sim$24 Myr-old eclipsing binary spanning the fully-convective boundary, ,
    Preprints | 2019
    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, ,
    Preprints | 2018
    Jackman JAG; Wheatley PJ; Pugh CE; Kolotkov DY; Broomhall A-M; 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, 2018, Detection of a giant flare displaying quasi-periodic pulsations from a pre-main sequence M star with NGTS, ,
    Preprints | 2018
    Wolf C; Onken CA; Luvaul LC; Schmidt BP; Bessell MS; Chang S-W; 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), ,
    Preprints | 2017
    Bell CPM; Murphy SJ; Mamajek EE, 2017, A stellar census of the nearby, young 32 Orionis group, ,
    Preprints | 2017
    Murphy SJ; Mamajek EE; Bell CPM, 2017, WISE J080822.18-644357.3 - a 45 Myr-old accreting M dwarf hosting a primordial disc, ,
    Preprints | 2016
    Holdsworth DL; Kurtz DW; Smalley B; Saio H; Handler G; Murphy SJ; Lehmann H, 2016, HD 24355 observed by the Kepler K2 mission: A rapidly oscillating Ap star pulsating in a distorted quadrupole mode, ,
    Conference Papers | 2015
    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,
    Preprints | 2015
    Murphy SJ; Lawson WA; Bento J, 2015, New members of the TW Hydrae Association and two accreting M-dwarfs in Scorpius-Centaurus, ,
    Preprints | 2015
    Zhou G; Bayliss D; Hartman JD; Rabus M; Bakos GÁ; 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, A 0.24+0.18 Msun double-lined eclipsing binary from the HATSouth survey, ,
    Preprints | 2014
    Murphy SJ; Lawson WA, 2014, New low-mass members of the Octans stellar association and an updated 30-40 Myr lithium age, ,
    Preprints | 2013
    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, 2013, Evolution from protoplanetary to debris discs: The transition disc around HD 166191, ,
    Preprints | 2013
    Melis C; Zuckerman B; Rhee JH; Song I; Murphy SJ; Bessell MS, 2013, Copious Amounts of Hot and Cold Dust Orbiting the Main Sequence A-type Stars HD 131488 and HD 121191, ,
    Preprints | 2013
    Murphy SJ; Lawson WA; Bessell MS, 2013, Re-examining the membership and origin of the Epsilon Cha association, ,
    Preprints | 2013
    Rodriguez DR; Zuckerman B; Kastner JH; Bessel MS; Faherty JK; Murphy SJ, 2013, The GALEX Nearby Young-Star Survey, ,
    Preprints | 2012
    Kastner JH; Thompson E; Montez R; Murphy SJ; Bessell MS; Sacco GG, 2012, 2M1155-79 (= T Cha B): A Low-mass, Wide-separation Companion to the Nearby, "Old" T Tauri Star T Cha, ,
    Preprints | 2012
    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, 2012, A High-Resolution Spectroscopic Search for the Remaining Donor for Tycho's Supernova, ,
    Conference Papers | 2012
    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,
    Preprints | 2012
    Melis C; Zuckerman B; Rhee JH; Song I; Murphy SJ; Bessell MS, 2012, Rapid disappearance of a warm, dusty circumstellar disk, ,
    Preprints | 2012
    Murphy SJ; Lawson WA; Bessell MS, 2012, RX J0942.7-7726AB: an isolated pre-main sequence wide binary, ,
    Preprints | 2012
    Norris JE; Bessell MS; Yong D; Christlieb N; Barklem PS; Asplund M; Murphy SJ; Beers TC; Frebel A; Ryan SG, 2012, The Most Metal-Poor Stars. I. Discovery, Data, and Atmospheric Parameters, ,
    Preprints | 2011
    Riedel AR; Murphy SJ; Henry TJ; Melis C; Jao W-C; Subasavage JP, 2011, The Solar Neighborhood. XXVI. AP Col: The Closest (8.4 pc) Pre-Main-Sequence Star, ,
    Preprints | 2010
    Murphy SJ; Lawson WA; Bessell MS; Bayliss DDR, 2010, Episodic disk accretion in the halo of the 'old' Pre-Main Sequence cluster Eta Chamaeleontis, ,
    Conference Papers | 2010
    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', in Revealing the Chamaeleon: First detection of a low-mass stellar halo around the young open cluster Eta Chamaeleontis,
    Conference Papers | 2008
    Murphy SJ; Bessell MS, 2008, 'Towards a complete census of young stars in the solar neighbourhood with SkyMapper', in Towards a complete census of young stars in the solar neighbourhood with SkyMapper,
    Conference Papers | 2008
    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',

  • 2016-2020: Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of New South Wales

Ѳfocus on identifying and characterising some of the youngest stars in the Solar neighbourhood. These young, nearby star systems are ideal laboratories for understanding early stellar evolution and probing the diverse conditions under which stars and, importantly, planets form. To accomplish this I use observations from a variety ofԻ, including thehere in Australia. I am also interested in the internationaleffort, which is developing standards for the discovery, exchange and analysis of astronomical data by computers and astronomers alike.

My Research Supervision

  • Evans Owusu (PhD):Tracing Thermonuclear Supernovae Progenitors of the Milky Way(co-supervisor)

My Teaching

Teaching in 2023:

  • (convener)
  • (lecturer)
  • (lecturer)
  • (project supervisor)