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The lives of massive stars from birth to supernovae

Lead Research Organisation: Queen's University Belfast
Department Name: Sch of Mathematics and Physics

Abstract

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Publications

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Maund JR (2009) The disappearance of the progenitors of supernovae 1993J and 2003gd. in Science (New York, N.Y.)

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Smartt S (2009) Progenitors of Core-Collapse Supernovae in Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Botticella M (2009) SN 2008S: an electron-capture SN from a super-AGB progenitor? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Pastorello A (2009) SN 1999ga: a low-luminosity linear type II supernova? in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Hunter I (2009) The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: constraints on stellar evolution from the chemical compositions of rapidly rotating Galactic and Magellanic Cloud B-type stars in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Smartt S (2009) The death of massive stars - I. Observational constraints on the progenitors of Type II-P supernovae in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Botticella M (2009) SN2008S an intriguing event

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Maguire K (2010) Type II-P supernovae as standardized candles: improvements using near-infrared data in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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Young D (2010) Two type Ic supernovae in low-metallicity, dwarf galaxies: diversity of explosions in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Pastorello A (2010) ULTRA-BRIGHT OPTICAL TRANSIENTS ARE LINKED WITH TYPE Ic SUPERNOVAE in The Astrophysical Journal

 
Description This was the same grant as PP/C506805/1, so one should refer to information entered there for here here (it was a EURYI award and hence was one award, but for a reason I don't fully understand there were two grants created).
Exploitation Route See above - same as PP/C506805/1
Sectors Education
URL http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~sjs
 
Description As noted above - see details for PP/C506805/1
First Year Of Impact 2005
Sector Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types Cultural

Societal
 
Description See the list in the narrative 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Significant increase in interest in astronomy and science in general from the talks, PRs etc.

Increase in number of work experience requests for physics based opportunities. Quantitative increase in applications to Physics course from students in NI - I don't personally take credit for this, but all my outreach activities contributed to the University's Physics amd astronomy extensive outreach programme which did lead to increase in applications and students studying Physics based courses (quantifiable evidence submitted to REF 2013).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010
URL https://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php/public/outreach/outreach_history_2008_may2014