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

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Platais I (2011) A NEW LOOK AT THE OLD STAR CLUSTER NGC 6791 in The Astrophysical Journal

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Boyer M (2012) THE DUST BUDGET OF THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD: ARE ASYMPTOTIC GIANT BRANCH STARS THE PRIMARY DUST SOURCE AT LOW METALLICITY? in The Astrophysical Journal

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Sambruna R (2009) STRUCTURE OF THE ACCRETION FLOW IN BROAD-LINE RADIO GALAXIES: THE CASE OF 3C 390.3 in The Astrophysical Journal

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David T (2017) A Transient Transit Signature Associated with the Young Star RIK-210 in The Astrophysical Journal

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Street R (2010) WASP-24 b: A NEW TRANSITING CLOSE-IN HOT JUPITER ORBITING A LATE F-STAR in The Astrophysical Journal

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McLaughlin D (2008) Shaping the Globular Cluster Mass Function by Stellar-Dynamical Evaporation in The Astrophysical Journal

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Mukadam A (2010) MULTI-SITE OBSERVATIONS OF PULSATION IN THE ACCRETING WHITE DWARF SDSS J161033.64-010223.3 (V386 Ser) in The Astrophysical Journal

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Pignatari M (2013) THE 12 C + 12 C REACTION AND THE IMPACT ON NUCLEOSYNTHESIS IN MASSIVE STARS in The Astrophysical Journal

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Turner T (2009) SUZAKU OBSERVATION OF A HARD EXCESS IN 1H 0419 - 577: DETECTION OF A COMPTON-THICK PARTIAL-COVERING ABSORBER 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