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
Miller L
(2008)
An absorption origin for the X-ray spectral variability of MCG-6-30-15
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Avelino P
(2008)
Dynamics of domain wall networks with junctions
in Physical Review D
Trinchieri G
(2008)
Detection of a hot intergalactic medium in the spiral-only compact group SCG0018-4854
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Anderson D
(2008)
WASP-5b: a dense, very hot Jupiter transiting a 12th-mag Southern-hemisphere star
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
McLaughlin Dean E.
(2008)
Shaping the globular cluster mass function by stellar-dynamical evaporation
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Fernandes P.
(2008)
Geochemistry of the baixo alentejo flysch group, South Portuguese Zone: Implications for provenance and palaeoweathering
in GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
Loon V
(2008)
Spitzer Space Telescope evidence in NGC 6791:: No super mass loss at supersolar metallicity to explain helium white dwarfs?
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Wilson D
(2008)
WASP-4b: A 12th Magnitude Transiting Hot Jupiter in the Southern Hemisphere
in The Astrophysical Journal
Reeves J
(2008)
On why the iron K-shell absorption in AGN is not a signature of the local warm/hot intergalactic medium
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Çakirli Ö
(2008)
Spectroscopic and photometric analysis of NSV 24512: an early-type eclipsing binary embedded in a dust cloud ?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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 |