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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.

Publications

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{Javadi}, A. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Mirtorabi}, M.~T. (2011) The UK Infrared Telescope M33 monitoring project - I. Variable red giant stars in the central square kiloparsec in \mnras

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{Braito}, V. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Sambruna}, R.~M. And {Gofford}, J. (2011) Evidence for a circumnuclear and ionized absorber in the X-ray obscured broad-line radio galaxy 3C 445 in \mnras

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{Sim}, S.~A. And {Miller}, L. And {Long}, K.~S. And {Turner}, T.~J. And {Reeves}, J.~N. (2010) Multidimensional modelling of X-ray spectra for AGN accretion disc outflows - II in \mnras

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{Woods}, P.~M. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {Kemper}, F. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Sargent}, B.~A. And {Matsuura}, M. And {Szczerba}, R. And {Volk}, K. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. And {Sloan}, G.~C. And {Lagadec}, E. And {McDonald}, I. And {Jones}, O. And {Gorjian}, V. And {Kraemer}, K.~E. And {Gielen}, C. And {Meixner}, M. And {Blum}, R.~D. And {Sewi{\l}o}, M. And {Riebel}, D. And {Shiao}, B. And {Chen}, C.-H.~R. And {Boyer}, M.~L. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Antoniou}, V. And {Bernard}, J.-P. And {Cohe (2011) The SAGE-Spec Spitzer Legacy programme: the life-cycle of dust and gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud - Point source classification I in \mnras

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{Miller}, L. And {Turner}, T.~J. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Lobban}, A. And {Kraemer}, S.~B. And {Crenshaw}, D.~M. (2010) Spectral variability and reverberation time delays in the Suzaku X-ray spectrum of NGC 4051 in \mnras

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{Botticella}, M.~T. And {Pastorello}, A. And {Smartt}, S.~J. And {Meikle}, W.~P.~S. And {Benetti}, S. And {Kotak}, R. And {Cappellaro}, E. And {Crockett}, R.~M. And {Mattila}, S. And {Sereno}, M. And {Patat}, F. And {Tsvetkov}, D. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Abraham}, D. And {Agnoletto}, I. And {Arbour}, R. And {Benn}, C. And {di Rico}, G. And {Elias-Rosa}, N. And {Gorshanov}, D.~L. And {Harutyunyan}, A. And {Hunter}, D. And {Lorenzi}, V. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Maguire}, K. And {Mendez}, J. An (2009) SN 2008S: an electron-capture SN from a super-AGB progenitor? in \mnras

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{Littlefair}, S.~P. And {Naylor}, T. And {Mayne}, N.~J. And {Saunders}, E.~S. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. (2010) Rotation of young stars in Cepheus OB3b in \mnras

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{Chumak}, Y.~O. And {Platais}, I. And {McLaughlin}, D.~E. And {Rastorguev}, A.~S. And {Chumak}, O.~V. (2010) Numerical simulations of tidal tails for the open cluster NGC 188 in \mnras

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{Lagadec}, E. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. And {Matsuura}, M. And {Menzies}, J.~W. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Whitelock}, P.~A. (2008) Dust mass-loss rates from asymptotic giant branch stars in the Fornax and Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxies in \mnras

 
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