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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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Tillich A (2009) The HYPERMUCHFUSS campaign - An undiscovered high velocity population in Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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Unda-Sanzana E (2009) The not-so-extreme white dwarf of the CV GD 552 in Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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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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Bennett M (2010) The effect of 12 C + 12 C rate uncertainties on s-process yields in Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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Hellier Catherine (2009) Cause of death in judicial hanging: a review and case study in MEDICINE SCIENCE AND THE LAW

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Matsuura M (2007) Spitzer Space Telescope spectral observations of AGB stars in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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McDonald I (2012) Carbon enrichment of the evolved stars in the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Triaud Amaury H. M. J. (2017) Peculiar architectures for the WASP-53 and WASP-81 planet-hosting systems ? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Patrick A (2011) Iron line profiles in Suzaku spectra of bare Seyfert galaxies Iron line profiles in Suzaku spectra in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Worley C (2010) Heavy-element abundances in low-gravity globular cluster stars: 47 Tuc in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Deca J (2012) PG 1018-047: the longest period subdwarf B binary PG 1018-047: the longest period sdB binary in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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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Çakirli Ö (2008) Spectroscopic and photometric analysis of NSV 24512: an early-type eclipsing binary embedded in a dust cloud ? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Rushton M (2008) How peculiar is the â??peculiar variableâ?? DZ Crucis (Nova Cru 2003)? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Southworth J (2009) Homogeneous studies of transiting extrasolar planets - II. Physical properties in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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McQuillin R (2012) Novae in the SuperWASP data base Novae in the SuperWASP data base in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Wils P (2010) Data mining for dwarf novae in SDSS, GALEX and astrometric catalogues Data mining for dwarf novae in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Pollacco D (2008) WASP-3b: a strongly irradiated transiting gas-giant planet in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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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Christian D (2006) The SuperWASP wide-field exoplanetary transit survey: candidates from fields 23 h < RA < 03 h in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Jeffries R (2007) Using rotation rates to probe age spreads in the Orion Nebula Cluster Age spreads in the ONC in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Smith A (2009) A SuperWASP search for additional transiting planets in 24 known systems in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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McDonald I (2009) Giants in the globular cluster ? Centauri: dust production, mass-loss and distance in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Pyrzas S (2009) Post-common-envelope binaries from SDSS - V. Four eclipsing white dwarf main-sequence binaries in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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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Smalley B (2017) Pulsation versus metallicism in Am stars as revealed by LAMOST and WASP in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Nandra K (2007) An XMM-Newton survey of broad iron lines in Seyfert galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Maxted P (2007) The mass and radius of the M-dwarf in the short-period eclipsing binary RR Caeli in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Christian D (2009) WASP-10b: a 3M J , gas-giant planet transiting a late-type K star in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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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Lagadec E (2007) Spitzer spectroscopy of carbon stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Clarkson W (2007) SuperWASP-North extrasolar planet candidates between 3h < RA < 6h 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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McDonald I (2012) Carbon enrichment of the evolved stars in the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal Carbon enrichment in the Sgr dSph in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

 
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