Stellar Astrophysics at Keele
Lead Research Organisation:
Keele University
Department Name: Sch of Chemistry & Physics
Abstract
Our home is a planet orbiting a star. To understand our origins and place in the universe we need to understand how planets and stars form. Using a novel sky-survey instrument, which we are building in South Africa, we will search for planets around other stars. Using the latest and biggest telescopes and satellites we will study stellar nurseries where stars are born. We will investigate how they evolve, how they interact with each other, how they interact with their environment, and how they enrich interstellar space with the chemical ingredients from which a new generation of stars and planets will form, and from which, ultimately, we ourselves are made.
Organisations
Publications
Reeves J
(2005)
Evidence for Gravitational Infall of Matter onto the Supermassive Black Hole in the Quasar PG 1211+143?
in The Astrophysical Journal
Matsuura M
(2006)
Spitzer observations of acetylene bands in carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud Acetylene bands in LMC AGB stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Christian D
(2006)
The WASP project in the era of robotic telescope networks
in Astronomische Nachrichten
Harris William E.
(2006)
Structural parameters for globular clusters in NGC 5128.: II.:
Hubble Space Telescope ACS imaging and new clusters
in ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Street R
(2006)
Looking towards the detection of exoearths with SuperWASP
in International Journal of Astrobiology
Watson D
(2006)
The soft X-ray blast in the apparently subluminous GRB 031203
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Pollacco D
(2006)
The WASP Project and SuperWASP Camera
in Astrophysics and Space Science
Zijlstra A
(2006)
A Spitzer mid-infrared spectral survey of mass-losing carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud Mass-losing AGB stars in the LMC
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Christian D
(2006)
The SuperWASP wide-field exoplanetary transit survey: candidates from fields 23 h < RA < 03 h
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Yonetoku D.
(2006)
Suzaku observation of X-ray afterglow: Spectral and temporal behaviors
in NUOVO CIMENTO DELLA SOCIETA ITALIANA DI FISICA B-GENERAL PHYSICS RELATIVITY ASTRONOMY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS AND METHODS
| Description | Lots and lots of them |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | We have particpated in dozens and dozens of such activites. Lots. We have about dozens and dozens of such feedbacks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | Pre-2006,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014 |