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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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Goswami N (2012) Using the Moon as a high-fidelity analogue environment to study biological and behavioral effects of long-duration space exploration in Planetary and Space Science

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Muijres L (2012) Mass-loss predictions for evolved very metal-poor massive stars in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Deca J (2012) PG 1018-047: the longest period subdwarf B binary PG 1018-047: the longest period sdB binary in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Geier}, S. And {Schaffenroth}, V. And {Hirsch}, H. And {Tillich}, A. And {Heber}, U. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {{\O}stensen}, R.~H. And {Barlow}, B.~N. And {O'Toole}, S.~J. And {Kupfer}, T. And {Marsh}, T. And {G{\"a}nsicke}, B. And {Napiwotzki}, R. And {Cordes}, O. And {M{\"u}ller}, S. And {Classen}, L. And {Ziegerer}, E. And {Drechsel}, H. (2012) MUCHFUSS - Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS in Astronomische Nachrichten

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Shin I (2012) CHARACTERIZING LOW-MASS BINARIES FROM OBSERVATION OF LONG-TIMESCALE CAUSTIC-CROSSING GRAVITATIONAL MICROLENSING EVENTS in The Astrophysical Journal

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{Bell}, C.~P.~M. And {Naylor}, T. And {Mayne}, N.~J. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Littlefair}, S.~P. (2012) Pre-main-sequence isochrones - I. The Pleiades benchmark in \mnras

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McQuillin R (2012) Novae in the SuperWASP data base Novae in the SuperWASP data base in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Laki{\'c}evi{\'c}}, M. And {Zanardo}, G. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Staveley-Smith}, L. And {Potter}, T. And {Ng}, C.-Y. And {Gaensler}, B.~M. (2012) The remnant of supernova 1987A resolved at 3-mm wavelength in \aap

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Boyer M (2012) ERRATUM: "SURVEYING THE AGENTS OF GALAXY EVOLUTION IN THE TIDALLY STRIPPED, LOW-METALLICITY SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD (SAGE-SMC). II. COOL EVOLVED STARS" (2011, AJ, 142, 103) in The Astronomical Journal

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Jia J (2012) A CHANDRA OBSERVATION OF THE ULTRALUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXY IRAS 19254-7245 (THE SUPERANTENNAE): X-RAY EMISSION FROM THE COMPTON-THICK ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS AND THE DIFFUSE STARBURST in The Astrophysical Journal

 
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