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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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{Boyer}, M.~L. And {Srinivasan}, S. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {McDonald}, I. And {Meixner}, M. And {Zaritsky}, D. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Kemper}, F. And {Babler}, B. And {Block}, M. And {Bracker}, S. And {Engelbracht}, C.~W. And {Hora}, J. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Meade}, M. And {Misselt}, K. And {Robitaille}, T. And {Sewi{\l}o}, M. And {Shiao}, B. And {Whitney}, B. (2011) Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally Stripped, Low Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). II. Cool Evolved Stars in \aj

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Sambruna R (2011) THE SUZAKU VIEW OF 3C 382 in The Astrophysical Journal

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{Tombesi}, F. And {Sambruna}, R.~M. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Reynolds}, C.~S. And {Braito}, V. (2011) X-ray evidence for the accretion disc-outflow connection in 3C 111 in \mnras

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Nebot Gómez-Morán A (2011) Post common envelope binaries from SDSS XII. The orbital period distribution??? in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Jeffries R (2011) No wide spread of stellar ages in the Orion Nebula Cluster No age spread in the ONC in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Nymeyer S (2011) SPITZER SECONDARY ECLIPSES OF WASP-18b in The Astrophysical Journal

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{Tombesi}, F. And {Cappi}, M. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Palumbo}, G.~G.~C. And {Braito}, V. And {Dadina}, M. (2011) Evidence for Ultra-fast Outflows in Radio-quiet Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Detailed Photoionization Modeling of Fe K-shell Absorption Lines in \apj

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Turner T (2011) X-RAY CHARACTERISTICS OF NGC 3516: A VIEW THROUGH THE COMPLEX ABSORBER in The Astrophysical Journal

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{Laki{\'c}evi{\'c}}, M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Patat}, F. And {Staveley-Smith}, L. And {Zanardo}, G. (2011) The remnant of SN 1987A revealed at (sub-)mm wavelengths in \aap

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{Alsubai}, K.~A. And {Parley}, N.~R. And {Bramich}, D.~M. And {West}, R.~G. And {Sorensen}, P.~M. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Latham}, D.~W. And {Horne}, K. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Bakos}, G.~{\'A}. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Buchhave}, L.~A. And {Esquerdo}, G.~A. And {Everett}, M.~E. And {F{\.z}r{\'e}sz}, G. And {Hartman}, J.~D. And {Hellier}, C. And {Miller}, G.~M. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Quinn}, S.~N. And {Smith}, J.~C. And {Stefanik}, R.~P. And {Szentgyorgyi}, A. (2011) Qatar-1b: a hot Jupiter orbiting a metal-rich K dwarf star in \mnras

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Smith R (2011) Debris discs in the 27 Myr old open cluster IC 4665 Debris discs in IC4665 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{McDonald}, I. And {Boyer}, M.~L. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. And {Hora}, J.~L. And {Babler}, B. And {Block}, M. And {Gordon}, K. And {Meade}, M. And {Meixner}, M. And {Misselt}, K. And {Robitaille}, T. And {Sewi{\l}o}, M. And {Shiao}, B. And {Whitney}, B. (2011) Fundamental Parameters, Integrated Red Giant Branch Mass Loss, and Dust Production in the Galactic Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae in \apjs

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Balona L (2011) Kepler observations of Am stars? Kepler observations of Am stars in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Suda T (2011) STELLAR EVOLUTION CONSTRAINTS ON THE TRIPLE-a REACTION RATE in The Astrophysical Journal

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{Chiappini}, C. And {Frischknecht}, U. And {Meynet}, G. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Barbuy}, B. And {Pignatari}, M. And {Decressin}, T. And {Maeder}, A. (2011) Imprints of fast-rotating massive stars in the Galactic Bulge in \nat

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Thielemann F (2011) Astronomy with Radioactivities

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Littlefair S (2011) Accretion-induced luminosity spreads in young clusters: evidence from stellar rotation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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{Simpson}, E.~K. And {Faedi}, F. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Hebb}, L. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Todd}, I. And {Butters}, O.~W. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {McCormac}, J. And {Miller}, G.~R.~M. And {Santerne}, A. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Skillen}, I. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Bento}, J. And {Boisse}, I. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Holmes}, S. And {Horne}, K. (2011) WASP-37b: A 1.8 M $_{J}$ Exoplanet Transiting a Metal-poor Star in \aj

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{Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Jackson}, R.~J. And {Briggs}, K.~R. And {Evans}, P.~A. And {Pye}, J.~P. (2011) Investigating coronal saturation and supersaturation in fast-rotating M-dwarf stars in \mnras

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{Faedi}, F. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Boisse}, I. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Lendl}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Bento}, J. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Butters}, O.~W. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Miller}, G.~R.~M. And {Moulds}, V. And {Moutou}, C. And {Norton}, A.~J. And {Queloz}, D. And {Santerne (2011) WASP-39b: a highly inflated Saturn-mass planet orbiting a late G-type star in \aap

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McDonald I (2011) DUST PRODUCTION AND MASS LOSS IN THE GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTER 47 TUCANAE in The Astrophysical Journal

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{Hony}, S. And {Kemper}, F. And {Woods}, P.~M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Gorjian}, V. And {Madden}, S.~C. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Marengo}, M. And {Meixner}, M. And {Panuzzo}, P. And {Shiao}, B. And {Sloan}, G.~C. And {Roman-Duval}, J. And {Mullaney}, J. And {Tielens}, A.~G.~G.~M. (2011) The Spitzer discovery of a galaxy with infrared emission solely due to AGN activity in \aap

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{Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Vanhuysse}, M. (2011) Spin-orbit measurements and refined parameters for the exoplanet systems WASP-22 and WASP-26 in \aap

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{Gillon}, M. And {Doyle}, A.~P. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Bento}, J. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Enoch}, B. And {Faedi}, F. And {Hellier}, C. And {Jehin}, E. And {Magain}, P. And {Montalb{\'a}n}, J. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Segransan}, D. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Southworth}, J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R.~G. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. (2011) WASP-50 b: a hot Jupiter transiting a moderately active solar-type star in \aap

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{McDonald}, I. And {Boyer}, M.~L. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. (2011) Dust Production and Mass Loss in the Galactic Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae in \apj

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De Koter A (2011) The O stars in the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey in Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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Copperwheat C (2011) SDSS J0926+3624: the shortest period eclipsing binary star The shortest period eclipsing binary star in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Miyake N (2011) A SUB-SATURN MASS PLANET, MOA-2009-BLG-319Lb in The Astrophysical Journal

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Maxted P (2011) Discovery of a stripped red giant core in a bright eclipsing binary system? J0247-25 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Burleigh}, M.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Heber}, U. And {G{\"a}nsicke}, B.~T. And {Geier}, S. And {Kupfer}, T. And {Marsh}, T.~R. And {Nelemans}, G. And {O'Toole}, S.~J. And {{\O}stensen}, R.~H. And {Smalley}, B. And {West}, R.~G. (2011) Discovery of a stripped red giant core in a bright eclipsing binary system in \mnras

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{Smith}, R. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. (2011) Debris discs in the 27 Myr old open cluster IC 4665 in \mnras

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Norton A (2011) Short period eclipsing binary candidates identified using SuperWASP in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Simpson E (2011) INDEPENDENT DISCOVERY OF THE TRANSITING EXOPLANET HAT-P-14b in The Astronomical Journal

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Smalley B (2011) SuperWASP observations of pulsating Am stars 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