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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{Frischknecht}, U. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Thielemann}, F.-K. (2012) Non-standard s-process in low metallicity massive rotating stars in \aap

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{Lendl}, M. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Doyle}, A.~P. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R.~G. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. (2012) WASP-42 b and WASP-49 b: two new transiting sub-Jupiters 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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{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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{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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{Smalley}, B. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Bentley}, S.~J. And {Enoch}, B. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D.~L. And {Segransan}, D. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Southworth}, J. And {Udry}, S. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. And {Wood}, P.~L. And {Bento}, J. (2010) WASP-26b: a 1-Jupiter-mass planet around an early-G-type star in \aap

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{Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Faedi}, F. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {McCormac}, J. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Simpson}, E.~K. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Todd}, I. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Boisse}, I. And {Bouchy}, F. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Moutou}, C. And {Pepe}, F. And {Queloz}, D. And {Santerne}, A. And {Segransan}, D. And {Udry}, S. And {Bento}, J. And {Butters}, O.~W. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Mill (2011) WASP-38b: a transiting exoplanet in an eccentric, 6.87d period orbit in \aap

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{Butters}, O.~W. And {West}, R.~G. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Clarkson}, W.~I. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Horne}, K. And {Joshi}, Y. And {Kane}, S.~R. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Parley}, N. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Todd}, I. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. And {Wilson}, D.~M. (2010) The first WASP public data release 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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{Laki{\'c}evi{\'c}}, M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Stanke}, T. And {De Breuck}, C. And {Patat}, F. (2012) Zooming in on Supernova 1987A at submillimetre wavelengths in \aap

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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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{Gillon}, M. And {Demory}, B.-O. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Barman}, T. And {Hebb}, L. And {Montalb{\'a}n}, J. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Deleuil}, M. And {Magain}, P. (2009) VLT transit and occultation photometry for the bloated planet CoRoT-1b in \aap

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{Lee}, M.-Y. And {Stanimirovi{\'c}}, S. And {Ott}, J. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Bolatto}, A.~D. And {Jones}, P.~A. And {Cunningham}, M.~R. And {Devine}, K.~E. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. (2009) Infrared Dark Clouds in the Small Magellanic Cloud? in \aj

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{Bonanos}, A.~Z. And {Lennon}, D.~J. And {K{\"o}hlinger}, F. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Massa}, D.~L. And {Sewilo}, M. And {Evans}, C.~J. And {Panagia}, N. And {Babler}, B.~L. And {Block}, M. And {Bracker}, S. And {Engelbracht}, C.~W. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Hora}, J.~L. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Meade}, M.~R. And {Meixner}, M. And {Misselt}, K.~A. And {Robitaille}, T.~P. And {Shiao}, B. And {Whitney}, B.~A. (2010) Spitzer SAGE-SMC Infrared Photometry of Massive Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud in \aj

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{Walborn}, N.~R. And {Howarth}, I.~D. And {Evans}, C.~J. And {Crowther}, P.~A. And {Moffat}, A.~F.~J. And {St-Louis}, N. And {Fari{\~n}a}, C. And {Bosch}, G.~L. And {Morrell}, N.~I. And {Barb{\'a}}, R.~H. And {van Loon}, J.~T. (2010) The Onfp Class in the Magellanic Clouds in \aj

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{Gordon}, K.~D. And {Meixner}, M. And {Meade}, M.~R. And {Whitney}, B. And {Engelbracht}, C. And {Bot}, C. And {Boyer}, M.~L. And {Lawton}, B. And {Sewi{\l}o}, M. And {Babler}, B. And {Bernard}, J.-P. And {Bracker}, S. And {Block}, M. And {Blum}, R. And {Bolatto}, A. And {Bonanos}, A. And {Harris}, J. And {Hora}, J.~L. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Misselt}, K. And {Reach}, W. And {Shiao}, B. And {Tielens}, X. And {Carlson}, L. And {Churchwell}, E. And {Clayton}, G.~C. And {Chen}, C.-H.~R. And {Coh (2011) Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally Stripped, Low Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). I. Overview in \aj

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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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{Enoch}, B. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Faedi}, F. And {Gillon}, M. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Queloz}, D. And {Santerne}, A. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Bento}, J. And {Butters}, O. And {Fossati}, L. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Holmes}, S. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {McCormac}, J. An (2011) WASP-35b, WASP-48b, and HAT-P-30b/WASP-51b: Two New Planets and an Independent Discovery of a Hat Planet in \aj

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{Exter}, K. And {Bond}, H.~E. And {Stassun}, K.~G. And {Smalley}, B. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pollacco}, D.~L. (2010) The Exotic Eclipsing Nucleus of the Ring Planetary Nebula SuWt 2 in \aj

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{Simpson}, E.~K. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Skillen}, I. And {Stempels}, H.~C. And {Boisse}, I. And {Faedi}, F. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {McCormac}, J. And {Sorensen}, P. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Anderson}, D. And {Bento}, J. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Butters}, O.~W. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hebb}, L. And {Hellier}, C. And {Holmes}, S. And {Horne}, K. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. (2011) Independent Discovery of the Transiting Exoplanet HAT-P-14b in \aj

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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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{Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Jehin}, E. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Segransan}, D. And {Southworth}, J. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Udry}, S. (2012) WASP-36b: A New Transiting Planet around a Metal-poor G-dwarf, and an Investigation into Analyses Based on a Single Transit Light Curve in \aj

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{West}, R.~G. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hebb}, L. And {Hellier}, C. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {Bentley}, S.~J. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Enoch}, B. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin}, J. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Mayor}, M. And {Parley}, N. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Segransan}, D. And {Spano}, M. And {Udry}, S. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. (2009) The Low Density Transiting Exoplanet WASP-15b in \aj

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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. (2012) Erratum: ''Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally Stripped, Low-metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). II. Cool Evolved Stars'' (2011, AJ, 142, 103) in \aj

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{Sambruna}, R.~M. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Braito}, V. And {Lewis}, K.~T. And {Eracleous}, M. And {Gliozzi}, M. And {Tavecchio}, F. And {Ballantyne}, D.~R. And {Ogle}, P.~M. And {Barth}, A.~J. And {Tueller}, J. (2009) Structure of the Accretion Flow in Broad-Line Radio Galaxies: The Case of 3C 390.3 in \apj

 
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