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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Doyle A (2012) Accurate spectroscopic parameters of WASP planet host stars in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Doyle A (2013) Accurate spectroscopic parameters of WASP planet host stars? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Kittang A (2013) Adaptation response of Arabidopsis thaliana to random positioning in Advances in Space Research

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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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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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Jeffries R (2006) An XMM-Newton observation of the young open cluster NGC 2547: coronal activity at 30 Myr in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Nandra K (2006) An XMM-Newton survey of broad iron lines in AGN in Astronomische Nachrichten

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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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Porquet D (2006) An XMM-Newton view of the X-ray flat radio-quiet quasar PG 1416-129 in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Meynet G (2010) Are C-rich ultra iron-poor stars also He-rich? in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Brown D (2011) Are falling planets spinning up their host stars? Are falling planets spinning up their host stars? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Jackson R (2010) Are the spin axes of stars randomly aligned within a cluster? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Barmby P (2009) ASPITZERSEARCH FOR COLD DUST WITHIN GLOBULAR CLUSTERS in The Astronomical Journal

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Patrick A (2011) Assessing black hole spin in deep Suzaku observations of Seyfert 1 AGN in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Southworth John (2012) ASTRONOMY A new class of planet in NATURE

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Thielemann F (2011) Astronomy with Radioactivities

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Maxted PF (2006) Astronomy. A ghostly star revealed in silhouette. in Science (New York, N.Y.)

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Markowitz A (2009) ASUZAKUOBSERVATION OF NGC 4593: ILLUMINATING THE TRUNCATED DISK in The Astrophysical Journal

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Avelino P (2009) Bifurcation and pattern changing with two real scalar fields in Physical Review D

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McQuillin R (2013) Black hole wind speeds and the M - s relation 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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Kamenetzky J (2013) CARBON MONOXIDE IN THE COLD DEBRIS OF SUPERNOVA 1987A in The Astrophysical Journal

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Sloan G (2012) CARBON-RICH DUST PRODUCTION IN METAL-POOR GALAXIES IN THE LOCAL GROUP in The Astrophysical Journal

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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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Pavlovski K (2009) Chemical evolution of high-mass stars in close binaries - I. The eclipsing binary V453 Cygni in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Van Loon J (2010) Chemical evolution of star clusters in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

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Van Loon JT (2010) Chemical evolution of star clusters. in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences

 
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