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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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{Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Jehin}, E. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Segransan}, D. And {Southworth}, J. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Udry}, S. (2012) WASP-36b: A New Transiting Planet around a Metal-poor G-dwarf, and an Investigation into Analyses Based on a Single Transit Light Curve in \aj

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Jordán A (2013) A GROUND-BASED OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SPECTRUM OF WASP-6b in The Astrophysical Journal

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Tombesi F (2013) An outburst scenario for the X-ray spectral variability in 3C 111 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Pillitteri}, I. And {Wolk}, S.~J. And {Megeath}, S.~T. And {Allen}, L. And {Bally}, J. And {Gagn{\'e}}, M. And {Gutermuth}, R.~A. And {Hartman}, L. And {Micela}, G. And {Myers}, P. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {Sciortino}, S. And {Walter}, F. And {Rebull}, L. And {Stauffer}, J. (2013) Erratum: ''An X-Rays Survey of the Young Stellar Population of the Lynds 1641 and Iota Orionis Regions'' (2013, ApJ, 768, 99) in \apj

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Pignatari M (2013) PRODUCTION OF CARBON-RICH PRESOLAR GRAINS FROM MASSIVE STARS in The Astrophysical Journal

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Maxted P (2013) Spitzer 3.6 and 4.5 µm full-orbit light curves of WASP-18 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Anderson D (2013) Thermal emission at 3.6-8 µm from WASP-19b: a hot Jupiter without a stratosphere orbiting an active star in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Mahtani D (2013) Warm Spitzer occultation photometry of WASP-26b at 3.6 and 4.5 Âµm in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Lohr}, M.~E. And {Norton}, A.~J. And {Kolb}, U.~C. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Todd}, I. And {West}, R.~G. (2013) Period and period change measurements for 143 SuperWASP eclipsing binary candidates near the short-period limit and discovery of a doubly eclipsing quadruple system in \aap

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Ripepi V (2013) The VMC Survey - VIII. First results for anomalous Cepheids? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Jackson R (2013) On the relationship between the size and surface coverage of starspots on magnetically active low-mass stars in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Gould A (2013) MOA-2010-BLG-523: "FAILED PLANET" = RS CVn STAR in The Astrophysical Journal

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Triaud A (2013) WASP-80b: a gas giant transiting a cool dwarf in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Reeves J (2013) A HIGH RESOLUTION VIEW OF THE WARM ABSORBER IN THE QUASAR MR 2251-178 in The Astrophysical Journal

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Kittang A (2013) Adaptation response of Arabidopsis thaliana to random positioning in Advances in Space Research

 
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