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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Bachelet E (2012) MOA 2010-BLG-477Lb: CONSTRAINING THE MASS OF A MICROLENSING PLANET FROM MICROLENSING PARALLAX, ORBITAL MOTION, AND DETECTION OF BLENDED LIGHT in The Astrophysical Journal

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Batista V (2011) MOA-2009-BLG-387Lb: a massive planet orbiting an M dwarf in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Street R (2013) MOA-2010-BLG-073L: AN M-DWARF WITH A SUBSTELLAR COMPANION AT THE PLANET/BROWN DWARF BOUNDARY in The Astrophysical Journal

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Gould A (2013) MOA-2010-BLG-523: "FAILED PLANET" = RS CVn STAR in The Astrophysical Journal

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{Tatum}, M.~M. And {Turner}, T.~J. And {Sim}, S.~A. And {Miller}, L. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Patrick}, A.~R. And {Long}, K.~S. (2012) Modeling the Fe K Line Profiles in Type I Active Galactic Nuclei with a Compton-thick Disk Wind in \apj

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Tatum M (2012) MODELING THE Fe K LINE PROFILES IN TYPE I ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI WITH A COMPTON-THICK DISK WIND in The Astrophysical Journal

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Van Loon J (2008) Molecules and dust production in the Magellanic Clouds in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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McQuillin R (2012) Momentum-driven feedback and the M-s relation in non-isothermal galaxies The M-s relation in non-isothermal galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Geier}, S. And {Schaffenroth}, V. And {Hirsch}, H. And {Tillich}, A. And {Heber}, U. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {{\O}stensen}, R.~H. And {Barlow}, B.~N. And {O'Toole}, S.~J. And {Kupfer}, T. And {Marsh}, T. And {G{\"a}nsicke}, B. And {Napiwotzki}, R. And {Cordes}, O. And {M{\"u}ller}, S. And {Classen}, L. And {Ziegerer}, E. And {Drechsel}, H. (2012) MUCHFUSS - Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS in Astronomische Nachrichten

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Geier S (2012) MUCHFUSS - Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS in Astronomische Nachrichten

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Maxted PF (2013) Multi-periodic pulsations of a stripped red-giant star in an eclipsing binary system. in Nature

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Mukadam A (2010) MULTI-SITE OBSERVATIONS OF PULSATION IN THE ACCRETING WHITE DWARF SDSS J161033.64-010223.3 (V386 Ser) in The Astrophysical Journal

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Lampens P (2011) Multi-site, multi-year monitoring of the oscillating Algol-type eclipsing binary CT Herculis in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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{Sim}, S.~A. And {Miller}, L. And {Long}, K.~S. And {Turner}, T.~J. And {Reeves}, J.~N. (2010) Multidimensional modelling of X-ray spectra for AGN accretion disc outflows - II in \mnras

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Sim S (2010) Multidimensional modelling of X-ray spectra for AGN accretion disc outflows - II in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Norton A (2007) New periodic variable stars coincident with ROSAT sources discovered using SuperWASP in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Sergison D (2013) No evidence for intense, cold accretion on to YSOs from measurements of Li in T-Tauri stars in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Littlefair}, S.~P. And {Naylor}, T. And {Mayne}, N.~J. (2011) No wide spread of stellar ages in the Orion Nebula Cluster in \mnras

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Jeffries R (2011) No wide spread of stellar ages in the Orion Nebula Cluster No age spread in the ONC in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Frischknecht U (2012) Non-standard s-process in low metallicity massive rotating stars in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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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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{McQuillin}, R. And {Evans}, A. And {Wilson}, D. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pollacco}, D. And {West}, R.~G. And {Hounsell}, R.~A. And {Bode}, M.~F. (2012) Novae in the SuperWASP data base in \mnras

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McQuillin R (2012) Novae in the SuperWASP data base Novae in the SuperWASP data base in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Chumak Y (2010) Numerical simulations of tidal tails for the open cluster NGC 188 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Chumak}, Y.~O. And {Platais}, I. And {McLaughlin}, D.~E. And {Rastorguev}, A.~S. And {Chumak}, O.~V. (2010) Numerical simulations of tidal tails for the open cluster NGC 188 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