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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Walborn N (2010) THE Onfp CLASS IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS in The Astronomical Journal

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Bouchy F (2010) WASP-21b: a hot-Saturn exoplanet transiting a thick disc star in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Bennett M (2010) The effect of 12 C + 12 C rate uncertainties on s-process yields in Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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{Geier}, S. And {Heber}, U. And {Tillich}, A. And {Hirsch}, H. And {Edelmann}, H. And {Schaffenroth}, V. And {Kupfer}, T. And {M{\"u}ller}, S. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {{\O}stensen}, R. And {Podsiadlowski}, P. And {Marsh}, T. And {G{\"a}nsicke}, B. And {Morales-Rueda}, L. And {Nelemans}, G. And {Napiwotzki}, R. And {G{\"u}nther}, E.~W. And {Carone}, L. (2010) Hot subdwarfs in binary systems and the nature of their unseen companions in \apss

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{Bouchy}, F. And {Hebb}, L. And {Skillen}, I. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Smalley}, B. And {Udry}, S. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Boisse}, I. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Hellier}, C. And {Joshi}, Y. And {Kane}, S.~R. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Mayor}, M. And {Moutou}, C. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Simpson}, E.~K. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Stempels}, H.~C. And {Street}, R. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And { (2010) WASP-21b: a hot-Saturn exoplanet transiting a thick disc star in \aap

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

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

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{Queloz}, D. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hebb}, L. And {Hellier}, C. And {Maxted}, P. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R. (2010) WASP-8b: a retrograde transiting planet in a multiple system in \aap

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{Hebb}, L. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Smalley}, B. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Gillon}, M. And {Queloz}, D. And {West}, R.~G. And {Bentley}, S. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Horne}, K. And {Mayor}, M. And {Pepe}, F. And {Segransan}, D. And {Skillen}, I. And {Udry}, S. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. (2010) WASP-19b: The Shortest Period Transiting Exoplanet Yet Discovered in \apj

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{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

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{Evans}, D.~A. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Hardcastle}, M.~J. And {Kraft}, R.~P. And {Lee}, J.~C. And {Virani}, S.~N. (2010) The Hard X-ray View of Reflection, Absorption, and the Disk-Jet Connection in the Radio-loud AGN 3C 33 in \apj

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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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Kassim H (2010) Effects of new nuclear reaction rates on the solar neutrino fluxes in Astrophysics and Space Science

 
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