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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{Jones}, S. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Herwig}, F. And {Paxton}, B. And {Timmes}, F.~X. And {Nomoto}, K. (2012) Progenitors of electron-capture supernovae

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Thielemann F (2011) Astronomy with Radioactivities

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Tombesi F (2010) A search for relativistic outflows signatures in the X-ray spectra of radio-quiet AGNs

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Maxted P. F. L. (2016) VizieR Online Data Catalog: ellc: a fast, flexible light curve model (Maxted, 2016) in VizieR Online Data Catalog

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Lendl M. (2016) VizieR Online Data Catalog: WASP-49b FORS2 multi-epoch spectra (Lendl+, 2016) in VizieR Online Data Catalog

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Ferrarese L (2012) THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY (NGVS). I. INTRODUCTION TO THE SURVEY* in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

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McDonald I (2011) FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS, INTEGRATED RED GIANT BRANCH MASS LOSS, AND DUST PRODUCTION IN THE GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTER 47 TUCANAE in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

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Wilson D (2008) WASP-4b: A 12th Magnitude Transiting Hot Jupiter in the Southern Hemisphere in The Astrophysical Journal

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Reeves J (2009) A COMPTON-THICK WIND IN THE HIGH-LUMINOSITY QUASAR, PDS 456 in The Astrophysical Journal

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Cargile P (2010) IDENTIFICATION OF THE LITHIUM DEPLETION BOUNDARY AND AGE OF THE SOUTHERN OPEN CLUSTER BLANCO 1 in The Astrophysical Journal

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Sambruna R (2009) STRUCTURE OF THE ACCRETION FLOW IN BROAD-LINE RADIO GALAXIES: THE CASE OF 3C 390.3 in The Astrophysical Journal

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Tombesi F (2010) DISCOVERY OF ULTRA-FAST OUTFLOWS IN A SAMPLE OF BROAD-LINE RADIO GALAXIES OBSERVED WITH SUZAKU in The Astrophysical Journal

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Sewilo M (2013) SURVEYING THE AGENTS OF GALAXY EVOLUTION IN THE TIDALLY STRIPPED, LOW METALLICITY SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD (SAGE-SMC). III. YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS in The Astrophysical Journal

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Risaliti G (2009) A STRONG EXCESS IN THE 20-100 keV EMISSION OF NGC 1365 in The Astrophysical Journal

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Kraemer S (2012) OBSERVATIONS OF OUTFLOWING ULTRAVIOLET ABSORBERS IN NGC 4051 WITH THE COSMIC ORIGINS SPECTROGRAPH in The Astrophysical Journal

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Shin I (2012) CHARACTERIZING LOW-MASS BINARIES FROM OBSERVATION OF LONG-TIMESCALE CAUSTIC-CROSSING GRAVITATIONAL MICROLENSING EVENTS in The Astrophysical Journal

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Hebb L (2010) WASP-19b: THE SHORTEST PERIOD TRANSITING EXOPLANET YET DISCOVERED in The Astrophysical Journal

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Oliveira J (2009) ICE CHEMISTRY IN EMBEDDED YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD in The Astrophysical Journal

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Gofford J (2014) REVEALING THE LOCATION AND STRUCTURE OF THE ACCRETION DISK WIND IN PDS 456 in The Astrophysical Journal

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

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Jones S (2013) ADVANCED BURNING STAGES AND FATE OF 8-10 M ? STARS in The Astrophysical Journal

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Hernández J (2008) A Spitzer View of Protoplanetary Disks in the ? Velorum Cluster in The Astrophysical Journal

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Platais I (2011) A NEW LOOK AT THE OLD STAR CLUSTER NGC 6791 in The Astrophysical Journal

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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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Boyer M (2012) THE DUST BUDGET OF THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD: ARE ASYMPTOTIC GIANT BRANCH STARS THE PRIMARY DUST SOURCE AT LOW METALLICITY? in The Astrophysical Journal

 
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