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.
Organisations
Publications
Geier S
(2010)
Massive unseen companions to hot faint underluminous stars from SDSS (MUCHFUSS) Analysis of seven close subdwarf B binaries???
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lendl M
(2016)
FORS2 observes a multi-epoch transmission spectrum of the hot Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-49b
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ekström S
(2008)
Effects of rotation on the evolution of primordial stars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Norton A
(2011)
Short period eclipsing binary candidates identified using SuperWASP
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gillon M
(2013)
WASP-64 b and WASP-72 b: two new transiting highly irradiated giant planets
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Smalley B
(2011)
SuperWASP observations of pulsating Am stars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ekström S
(2012)
Grids of stellar models with rotation I. Models from 0.8 to 120 M ? at solar metallicity ( Z = 0.014)?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Younes G
(2011)
Study of LINER sources with broad H a emission. X-ray properties and comparison to luminous AGN and X-ray binaries
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Triaud A
(2012)
The EBLM project I. Physical and orbital parameters, including spin-orbit angles, of two low-mass eclipsing binaries on opposite sides of the brown dwarf limit
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lakicevic M
(2012)
The remnant of supernova 1987A resolved at 3-mm wavelength
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Triaud A
(2013)
WASP-80b: a gas giant transiting a cool dwarf
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Smolders K
(2012)
The Spitzer spectroscopic survey of S-type stars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Doran E
(2013)
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XI. A census of the hot luminous stars and their feedback in 30 Doradus
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Maxted P
(2016)
Five transiting hot Jupiters discovered using WASP-South, Euler , and TRAPPIST: WASP-119 b, WASP-124 b, WASP-126 b, WASP-129 b, and WASP-133 b
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Jeffries R
(2014)
The Gaia -ESO Survey: Kinematic structure in the Gamma Velorum cluster
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Ricci D
(2011)
Flux and color variations of the quadruply imaged quasar HE 0435-1223
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Sana H
(2013)
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Bentley S
(2009)
A stellar flare during the transit of the extrasolar planet OGLE-TR-10b
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Southworth J
(2011)
A much lower density for the transiting extrasolar planet WASP-7
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Tillich A
(2011)
The Hyper-MUCHFUSS project: probing the Galactic halo with sdB stars
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gillon M
(2009)
VLT transit and occultation photometry for the bloated planet CoRoT-1b
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Magrini L
(2014)
The Gaia -ESO Survey: Abundance ratios in the inner-disk open clusters Trumpler 20, NGC 4815, NGC 6705
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Miller L
(2006)
Variable iron-line emission near the black hole of Markarian 766
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Gillon M
(2012)
The TRAPPIST survey of southern transiting planets I. Thirty eclipses of the ultra-short period planet WASP-43 b??????
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Faedi F
(2013)
WASP-54b, WASP-56b, and WASP-57b: Three new sub-Jupiter mass planets from SuperWASP
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
| 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 |