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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{Queloz}, D. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hebb}, L. And {Hellier}, C. And {Maxted}, P. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R. (2010) WASP-8b: a retrograde transiting planet in a multiple system in \aap

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{Meixner}, M. And {Galliano}, F. And {Hony}, S. And {Roman-Duval}, J. And {Robitaille}, T. And {Panuzzo}, P. And {Sauvage}, M. And {Gordon}, K. And {Engelbracht}, C. And {Misselt}, K. And {Okumura}, K. And {Beck}, T. And {Bernard}, J.-P. And {Bolatto}, A. And {Bot}, C. And {Boyer}, M. And {Bracker}, S. And {Carlson}, L.~R. And {Clayton}, G.~C. And {Chen}, C.-H.~R. And {Churchwell}, E. And {Fukui}, Y. And {Galametz}, M. And {Hora}, J.~L. And {Hughes}, A. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Israel}, F.~P. (2010) HERschel Inventory of The Agents of Galaxy Evolution (HERITAGE): The Large Magellanic Cloud dust in \aap

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{Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Lendl}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Udry}, S. (2011) WASP-31b: a low-density planet transiting a metal-poor, late-F-type dwarf star in \aap

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{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Southworth}, J. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R.~G. (2011) WASP-43b: the closest-orbiting hot Jupiter in \aap

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{Skillen}, I. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Hebb}, L. And {Simpson}, E. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Gibson}, N.~P. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Joshi}, Y.~C. And {Loeillet}, B. And {Smalley}, B. And {Stempels}, H.~C. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R.~G. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin}, J. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P. And { (2009) The 0.5M$_{J}$ transiting exoplanet WASP-13b in \aap

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{Otsuka}, M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Long}, K.~S. And {Meixner}, M. And {Matsuura}, M. And {Reach}, W.~T. And {Roman-Duval}, J. And {Gordon}, K. And {Sauvage}, M. And {Hony}, S. And {Misselt}, K. And {Engelbracht}, C. And {Panuzzo}, P. And {Okumura}, K. And {Woods}, P.~M. And {Kemper}, F. And {Sloan}, G.~C. (2010) Dust in the bright supernova remnant N49 in the LMC in \aap

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{Frischknecht}, U. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Meynet}, G. And {Ekstr{\"o}m}, S. And {Georgy}, C. And {Rauscher}, T. And {Winteler}, C. And {Thielemann}, F.-K. (2010) Constraints on rotational mixing from surface evolution of light elements in massive stars in \aap

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{H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {D{\'{\i}}az}, R.~F. And {Faedi}, F. And {Smalley}, B. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Armstrong}, D. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Bento}, J. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Doyle}, A.~P. And {Enoch}, B. And {G{\'o}mez Maqueo Chew}, Y. And {H{\'e}brard}, {\'E}.~M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Lendl}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {McCormac}, J. And {Moutou}, C. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {Santerne}, A. And {Skillen (2013) WASP-52b, WASP-58b, WASP-59b, and WASP-60b: Four new transiting close-in giant planets in \aap

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{Smolders}, K. And {Neyskens}, P. And {Blommaert}, J.~A.~D.~L. And {Hony}, S. And {van Winckel}, H. And {Decin}, L. And {van Eck}, S. And {Sloan}, G.~C. And {Cami}, J. And {Uttenthaler}, S. And {Degroote}, P. And {Barry}, D. And {Feast}, M. And {Groenewegen}, M.~A.~T. And {Matsuura}, M. And {Menzies}, J. And {Sahai}, R. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. And {Acke}, B. And {Bloemen}, S. And {Cox}, N. And {De Cat}, P. And {Desmet}, M. And {Exter}, K. And {Ladjal}, D. And {{\O}stensen}, (2012) The Spitzer spectroscopic survey of S-type stars in \aap

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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

 
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