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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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Campo C (2011) ON THE ORBIT OF EXOPLANET WASP-12b in The Astrophysical Journal

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Tombesi F (2010) DISCOVERY OF ULTRA-FAST OUTFLOWS IN A SAMPLE OF BROAD-LINE RADIO GALAXIES OBSERVED WITH SUZAKU in The Astrophysical Journal

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Hebb L (2009) WASP-12b: THE HOTTEST TRANSITING EXTRASOLAR PLANET YET DISCOVERED in The Astrophysical Journal

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Legg E (2012) DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF THE X-RAY TIME-DELAY TRANSFER FUNCTION IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI in The Astrophysical Journal

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Hekker S (2010) DISCOVERY OF A RED GIANT WITH SOLAR-LIKE OSCILLATIONS IN AN ECLIPSING BINARY SYSTEM FROM KEPLER SPACE-BASED PHOTOMETRY in The Astrophysical Journal

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Street R (2013) MOA-2010-BLG-073L: AN M-DWARF WITH A SUBSTELLAR COMPANION AT THE PLANET/BROWN DWARF BOUNDARY in The Astrophysical Journal

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Brown D (2012) ANALYSIS OF SPIN-ORBIT ALIGNMENT IN THE WASP-32, WASP-38, AND HAT-P-27/WASP-40 SYSTEMS in The Astrophysical Journal

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Herwig F (2011) CONVECTIVE-REACTIVE PROTON- 12 C COMBUSTION IN SAKURAI'S OBJECT (V4334 SAGITTARII) AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EVOLUTION AND YIELDS FROM THE FIRST GENERATIONS OF STARS in The Astrophysical Journal

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Blecic J (2014) SPITZER OBSERVATIONS OF THE THERMAL EMISSION FROM WASP-43b in The Astrophysical Journal

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Gordon K (2009) THE DUST-TO-GAS RATIO IN THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD TAIL 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