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.
Organisations
Publications
{Nymeyer}, S. And {Harrington}, J. And {Hardy}, R.~A. And {Stevenson}, K.~B. And {Campo}, C.~J. And {Madhusudhan}, N. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Loredo}, T.~J. And {Blecic}, J. And {Bowman}, W.~C. And {Britt}, C.~B.~T. And {Cubillos}, P. And {Hellier}, C. And {Gillon}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Hebb}, L. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Anderson}, D.~R.
(2011)
Spitzer Secondary Eclipses of WASP-18b
in \apj
{Norton}, A.~J. And {Payne}, S.~G. And {Evans}, T. And {West}, R.~G. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Butters}, O.~W. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Enoch}, B. And {Faedi}, F. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Holmes}, S. And {Horne}, K.~D. And {Kane}, S.~R. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Parley}, N. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Simpson}, E.~K. And {Skillen}, I. And {Smalley}, B. And {Southworth}, J. And {Street
(2011)
Short period eclipsing binary candidates identified using SuperWASP
in \aap
{Muijres}, L. And {Vink}, J.~S. And {de Koter}, A. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Langer}, N. And {Yoon}, S.-C.
(2012)
Mass-loss predictions for evolved very metal-poor massive stars
in \aap
{Miller}, L. And {Turner}, T.~J. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Lobban}, A. And {Kraemer}, S.~B. And {Crenshaw}, D.~M.
(2010)
Spectral variability and reverberation time delays in the Suzaku X-ray spectrum of NGC 4051
in \mnras
{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
{McQuillin}, R. And {Evans}, A. And {Wilson}, D. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pollacco}, D. And {West}, R.~G. And {Hounsell}, R.~A. And {Bode}, M.~F.
(2012)
Novae in the SuperWASP data base
in \mnras
{McLaughlin}, D.~E. And {Barmby}, P. And {Harris}, W.~E. And {Forbes}, D.~A. And {Harris}, G.~L.~H.
(2008)
Structural parameters for globular clusters in NGC 5128 - III. ACS surface brightness profiles and model fits
in \mnras
{McDonald}, I. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Dupree}, A.~K. And {Boyer}, M.~L.
(2010)
Discovery of long-period variable stars in the very metal-poor globular cluster M15
in \mnras
{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
{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
{Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Gillon}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Udry}, S.
(2011)
WASP-41b: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Planet Orbiting a Magnetically Active G8V Star
in \pasp
{Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Doyle}, A.~P. And {Fumel}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Southworth}, K. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R.~G.
(2013)
WASP-77 Ab: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Planet in a Wide Binary System
in \pasp
{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
{Matsuura}, M. And {Dwek}, E. And {Meixner}, M. And {Otsuka}, M. And {Babler}, B. And {Barlow}, M.~J. And {Roman-Duval}, J. And {Engelbracht}, C. And {Sandstrom}, K. And {Laki{\'c}evi{\'c}}, M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Sonneborn}, G. And {Clayton}, G.~C. And {Long}, K.~S. And {Lundqvist}, P. And {Nozawa}, T. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Hony}, S. And {Panuzzo}, P. And {Okumura}, K. And {Misselt}, K.~A. And {Montiel}, E. And {Sauvage}, M.
(2011)
Herschel Detects a Massive Dust Reservoir in Supernova 1987A
in Science
{Massimi}, C. And {Koehler}, P. And {Bisterzo}, S. And {Colonna}, N. And {Gallino}, R. And {Gunsing}, F. And {K{\"a}ppeler}, F. And {Lorusso}, G. And {Mengoni}, A. And {Pignatari}, M. And {Vannini}, G. And {Abbondanno}, U. And {Aerts}, G. And {{\'A}lvarez}, H. And {{\'A}lvarez-Velarde}, F. And {Andriamonje}, S. And {Andrzejewski}, J. And {Assimakopoulos}, P. And {Audouin}, L. And {Badurek}, G. And {Barbagallo}, M. And {Baumann}, P. And {Be{\v C}v{\'a}{\v R}}, F. And {Belloni}, F. And {Bennett},
(2012)
Resonance neutron-capture cross sections of stable magnesium isotopes and their astrophysical implications
in \prc
{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
{Lobban}, A.~P. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Porquet}, D. And {Braito}, V. And {Markowitz}, A. And {Miller}, L. And {Turner}, T.~J.
(2010)
Evidence for a truncated accretion disc in the low-luminosity Seyfert galaxy, NGC 7213?
in \mnras
{Lobban}, A.~P. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Miller}, L. And {Turner}, T.~J. And {Braito}, V. And {Kraemer}, S.~B. And {Crenshaw}, D.~M.
(2011)
Contemporaneous Chandra HETG and Suzaku X-ray observations of NGC 4051
in \mnras
{Littlefair}, S.~P. And {Naylor}, T. And {Mayne}, N.~J. And {Saunders}, E.~S. And {Jeffries}, R.~D.
(2010)
Rotation of young stars in Cepheus OB3b
in \mnras
{Lister}, T.~A. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hebb}, L. And {Smalley}, B.~S. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {West}, R.~G. And {Bentley}, S.~J. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Enoch}, R. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin}, J. And {Joshi}, Y.~C. And {Kane}, S.~R. And {Mayor}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Norton}, A.~J. And {Parley}, N. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {Ryans}, R. And {Se
(2009)
WASP-16b: A New Jupiter-Like Planet Transiting a Southern Solar Analog
in \apj
{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
{Legg}, E. And {Miller}, L. And {Turner}, T.~J. And {Giustini}, M. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Kraemer}, S.~B.
(2012)
Direct Measurement of the X-Ray Time-delay Transfer Function in Active Galactic Nuclei
in \apj
{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
{Laki{\'c}evi{\'c}}, M. And {Zanardo}, G. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Staveley-Smith}, L. And {Potter}, T. And {Ng}, C.-Y. And {Gaensler}, B.~M.
(2012)
The remnant of supernova 1987A resolved at 3-mm wavelength
in \aap
{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
{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
{Lagadec}, E. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. And {Sloan}, G.~C. And {Wood}, P.~R. And {Matsuura}, M. And {Bernard-Salas}, J. And {Blommaert}, J.~A.~D.~L. And {Cioni}, M.-R.~L. And {Feast}, M.~W. And {Groenewegen}, M.~A.~T. And {Hony}, S. And {Menzies}, J.~W. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Whitelock}, P.~A.
(2009)
Metal-rich carbon stars in the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy
in \mnras
{Lagadec}, E. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. And {Matsuura}, M. And {Menzies}, J.~W. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Whitelock}, P.~A.
(2008)
Dust mass-loss rates from asymptotic giant branch stars in the Fornax and Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxies
in \mnras
{Krongold}, Y. And {Elvis}, M. And {Andrade-Velazquez}, M. And {Nicastro}, F. And {Mathur}, S. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Brickhouse}, N.~S. And {Binette}, L. And {Jimenez-Bailon}, E. And {Grupe}, D. And {Liu}, Y. And {McHardy}, I.~M. And {Minezaki}, T. And {Yoshii}, Y. And {Wilkes}, B.
(2010)
Suzaku Monitoring of the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 5548: Warm Absorber Location and Its Implication for Cosmic Feedback
in \apj
{Kraemer}, S.~B. And {Crenshaw}, D.~M. And {Dunn}, J.~P. And {Turner}, T.~J. And {Lobban}, A.~P. And {Miller}, L. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Fischer}, T.~C. And {Braito}, V.
(2012)
Observations of Outflowing Ultraviolet Absorbers in NGC 4051 with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
in \apj
{Kassim}, H.~A. And {Yusof}, N. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Eggenberger}, P.
(2010)
Effects of new nuclear reaction rates on the solar neutrino fluxes
in \apss
{Joshi}, Y.~C. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Skillen}, I. And {Simpson}, E. And {Steele}, I. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Stempels}, H.~C. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Hebb}, L. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Gibson}, N.~P. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Loeillet}, B. And {Meaburn}, J. And {Moutou}, C. And {Smalley}, B. And {Todd}, I. And {West}, R.~G. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Bentley}, S. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin}
(2009)
WASP-14b: 7.3 M$_{J}$ transiting planet in an eccentric orbit
in \mnras
{Jones}, S. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Herwig}, F. And {Paxton}, B. And {Timmes}, F.~X. And {Nomoto}, K.
(2012)
Progenitors of electron-capture supernovae
{Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Naylor}, T. And {Walter}, F.~M. And {Pozzo}, M.~P. And {Devey}, C.~R.
(2009)
The stellar association around Gamma Velorum and its relationship with Vela OB2
in \mnras
{Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Littlefair}, S.~P. And {Naylor}, T. And {Mayne}, N.~J.
(2011)
No wide spread of stellar ages in the Orion Nebula Cluster
in \mnras
{Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Jackson}, R.~J. And {James}, D.~J. And {Cargile}, P.~A.
(2009)
Low-mass members of the young cluster IC 4665 and pre-main-sequence lithium depletion
in \mnras
{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
{Javadi}, A. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Mirtorabi}, M.~T.
(2011)
The UK Infrared Telescope M33 monitoring project - I. Variable red giant stars in the central square kiloparsec
in \mnras
{Javadi}, A. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Mirtorabi}, M.~T.
(2011)
The UK Infrared Telescope M33 monitoring project - II. The star formation history in the central square kiloparsec
in \mnras
{Jackson}, R.~J. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L.
(2009)
The radii of M-dwarfs in the young open cluster NGC 2516
in \mnras
{Jackson}, R.~J. And {Jeffries}, R.~D.
(2012)
Why do some young cool stars show spot modulation while others do not?
in \mnras
{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
{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
{Hirschi}, R. And {Maeder}, A.
(2010)
The GSF instability and turbulence do not account for the relatively low rotation rate of pulsars
in \aap
{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Gillon}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {Alsubai}, K. And {Bentley}, S.~J. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Hebb}, L. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin}, J. And {Kane}, S.~R. And {Mayor}, M. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Skillen}, I. And {Udry}, S. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Enoch}, R. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Josh
(2009)
Wasp-7: A Bright Transiting-Exoplanet System in the Southern Hemisphere
in \apjl
{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Miller}, G.~R.~M. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Southworth}, J. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J.
(2011)
On the Orbit of the Short-period Exoplanet WASP-19b
in \apjl
{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. 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 {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Enoch}, B. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Udry}, S.
(2010)
WASP-29b: A Saturn-sized Transiting Exoplanet
in \apjl
{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
{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Doyle}, A.~P. And {Fumel}, 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.
(2012)
Seven transiting hot Jupiters from WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-47b, WASP-55b, WASP-61b, WASP-62b, WASP-63b, WASP-66b and WASP-67b
in \mnras
{Hebb}, L. And {Stempels}, H.~C. And {Aigrain}, S. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Hodgkin}, S.~T. And {Irwin}, J.~M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {Stassun}, K.~G.
(2010)
MML 53: a new low-mass, pre-main sequence eclipsing binary in the Upper Centaurus-Lupus region discovered by SuperWASP
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 |