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
Wilson D
(2008)
WASP-4b: A 12th Magnitude Transiting Hot Jupiter in the Southern Hemisphere
in The Astrophysical Journal
Turner T
(2008)
Tracing a disk wind in NGC 3516
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Papadakis I
(2008)
A correlation between the spectral and timing properties of AGN
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
McLaughlin D
(2008)
Structural parameters for globular clusters in NGC 5128 - III. ACS surface brightness profiles and model fits Globular clusters in NGC 5128
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
{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
Hernández J
(2008)
A Spitzer View of Protoplanetary Disks in the ? Velorum Cluster
in The Astrophysical Journal
Oliveira J
(2008)
Effects of strong interaction on the structure of color-flavor-locked quark stars
in Physical Review D
Pignatari M.
(2008)
THE
s-PROCESS IN MASSIVE STARS AT LOW METALLICITY: THE EFFECT OF PRIMARY
14N FROM FAST ROTATING STARS
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Awaki H
(2008)
Wide-Band Spectroscopy of the Compton Thick Seyfert2 Galaxy Markarian 3 with Suzaku
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Markowitz A
(2008)
The Suzaku Observation of NGC3516: Complex Absorption and the Broad and Narrow FeK Lines
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
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 |