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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{Frischknecht}, U. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Thielemann}, F.-K. (2012) Non-standard s-process in low metallicity massive rotating stars in \aap

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{Frischknecht}, U. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Meynet}, G. And {Ekstr{\"o}m}, S. And {Georgy}, C. And {Rauscher}, T. And {Winteler}, C. And {Thielemann}, F.-K. (2010) Constraints on rotational mixing from surface evolution of light elements in massive stars in \aap

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{Faedi}, F. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Boisse}, I. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Lendl}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Bento}, J. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Butters}, O.~W. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Miller}, G.~R.~M. And {Moulds}, V. And {Moutou}, C. And {Norton}, A.~J. And {Queloz}, D. And {Santerne (2011) WASP-39b: a highly inflated Saturn-mass planet orbiting a late G-type star in \aap

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{Exter}, K. And {Bond}, H.~E. And {Stassun}, K.~G. And {Smalley}, B. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pollacco}, D.~L. (2010) The Exotic Eclipsing Nucleus of the Ring Planetary Nebula SuWt 2 in \aj

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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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{Evans}, C.~J. And {Walborn}, N.~R. And {Crowther}, P.~A. And {H{\'e}nault-Brunet}, V. And {Massa}, D. And {Taylor}, W.~D. And {Howarth}, I.~D. And {Sana}, H. And {Lennon}, D.~J. And {van Loon}, J.~T. (2010) A Massive Runaway Star from 30 Doradus in \apjl

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{Enoch}, B. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Faedi}, F. And {Gillon}, M. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Queloz}, D. And {Santerne}, A. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Bento}, J. And {Butters}, O. And {Fossati}, L. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Holmes}, S. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {McCormac}, J. An (2011) WASP-35b, WASP-48b, and HAT-P-30b/WASP-51b: Two New Planets and an Independent Discovery of a Hat Planet in \aj

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{Eggenberger}, P. And {Meynet}, G. And {Maeder}, A. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Charbonnel}, C. And {Talon}, S. And {Ekstr{\"o}m}, S. (2008) The Geneva stellar evolution code in \apss

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{Deca}, J. And {Marsh}, T.~R. And {{\O}stensen}, R.~H. And {Morales-Rueda}, L. And {Copperwheat}, C.~M. And {Wade}, R.~A. And {Stark}, M.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Nelemans}, G. And {Heber}, U. (2012) PG 1018-047: the longest period subdwarf B binary in \mnras

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{Copperwheat}, C.~M. And {Morales-Rueda}, L. And {Marsh}, T.~R. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Heber}, U. (2011) Radial-velocity measurements of subdwarf B stars in \mnras

 
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