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
Walborn N
(2010)
THE Onfp CLASS IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS
in The Astronomical Journal
Watson D
(2006)
Outshining the quasars at reionization: The X-ray spectrum and light curve of the redshift 6.29 gamma-ray burst GRB 050904
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Watson D
(2006)
The soft X-ray blast in the apparently subluminous GRB 031203
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Watson D.
(2006)
A log N-HI=22.6 damped Ly alpha absorber in a dark gamma-ray burst: The environment of GRB 050401
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
West R
(2009)
THE LOW DENSITY TRANSITING EXOPLANET WASP-15b
in The Astronomical Journal
West R
(2009)
The sub-Jupiter mass transiting exoplanet WASP-11b
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
West R
(2016)
Three irradiated and bloated hot Jupiters: WASP-76b, WASP-82b, and WASP-90b?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Wils P
(2010)
Data mining for dwarf novae in SDSS, GALEX and astrometric catalogues Data mining for dwarf novae
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Wilson D
(2008)
WASP-4b: A 12th Magnitude Transiting Hot Jupiter in the Southern Hemisphere
in The Astrophysical Journal
Wilson D
(2008)
WASP-4b: A 12th Magnitude Transiting Hot Jupiter in the Southern Hemisphere
in The Astrophysical Journal
Wilson D. M.
(2006)
SuperWASP observations of the transiting extrasolar planet XO-1b
in PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC
Wilson D. M.
(2008)
WASP-4b: A 12th magnitude transiting hot Jupiter in the southern hemisphere
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Wood P
(2011)
Transmission spectroscopy of the sodium 'D' doublet in WASP-17b with the VLT? Transmission spectroscopy of WASP-17b
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Woods P
(2011)
The SAGE-Spec Spitzer Legacy programme: the life-cycle of dust and gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud - Point source classification I SAGE-Spec - Point source classification I
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Worley C
(2010)
Heavy-element abundances in low-gravity globular cluster stars: 47 Tuc
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Yonetoku D.
(2006)
Suzaku observation of X-ray afterglow: Spectral and temporal behaviors
in NUOVO CIMENTO DELLA SOCIETA ITALIANA DI FISICA B-GENERAL PHYSICS RELATIVITY ASTRONOMY AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS AND METHODS
Younes G
(2010)
X-ray and multiwavelength view of NGC 4278 A LINER-Seyfert connection?
in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Younes G
(2012)
Study of LINER sources with broad H a emission Spectral energy distribution and multiwavelength correlations
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Younes G
(2011)
Study of LINER sources with broad H a emission. X-ray properties and comparison to luminous AGN and X-ray binaries
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Yusof N
(2013)
Evolution and fate of very massive stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Yusof N
(2012)
Fate of most massive stars
in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Zijlstra A
(2006)
A Spitzer mid-infrared spectral survey of mass-losing carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud Mass-losing AGB stars in the LMC
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zorotovic M
(2011)
Post common envelope binaries from SDSS XIII. Mass dependencies of the orbital period distribution
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
{Allen}, T.~S. And {Gutermuth}, R.~A. And {Kryukova}, E. And {Megeath}, S.~T. And {Pipher}, J.~L. And {Naylor}, T. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Wolk}, S.~J. And {Spitzbart}, B. And {Muzerolle}, J.
(2012)
Spitzer Imaging of the nearby Rich Young Cluster, Cep OB3b
in \apj
{Alsubai}, K.~A. And {Parley}, N.~R. And {Bramich}, D.~M. And {West}, R.~G. And {Sorensen}, P.~M. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Latham}, D.~W. And {Horne}, K. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Bakos}, G.~{\'A}. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Buchhave}, L.~A. And {Esquerdo}, G.~A. And {Everett}, M.~E. And {F{\.z}r{\'e}sz}, G. And {Hartman}, J.~D. And {Hellier}, C. And {Miller}, G.~M. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Quinn}, S.~N. And {Smith}, J.~C. And {Stefanik}, R.~P. And {Szentgyorgyi}, A.
(2011)
Qatar-1b: a hot Jupiter orbiting a metal-rich K dwarf star
in \mnras
{Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Todd}, I. And {Udry}, S.
(2012)
WASP-44b, WASP-45b and WASP-46b: three short-period, transiting extrasolar planets
in \mnras
{Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Vanhuysse}, M.
(2011)
Spin-orbit measurements and refined parameters for the exoplanet systems WASP-22 and WASP-26
in \aap
{Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Lendl}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Udry}, S.
(2011)
WASP-31b: a low-density planet transiting a metal-poor, late-F-type dwarf star
in \aap
{Anderson}, D.~R. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pepe}, F. And {Queloz}, D. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Smalley}, B. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Bentley}, S.~J. And {Blecha}, A. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Enoch}, B. And {Hebb}, L. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin}, J. And {Joshi}, Y.~C. And {Kane}, S.~R. And {Marmier}, M. And {Mayor}, M. And {Parley}, N.~R. And {Pollacco}, D.~L. And {Pont}, F. And {Ryans}, R. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Skillen},
(2008)
WASP-5b: a dense, very hot Jupiter transiting a 12th-mag Southern-hemisphere star
in \mnras
{Anderson}, D.~R. And {Gillon}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Barman}, T.~S. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J.
(2010)
H-band thermal emission from the 19-h period planet WASP-19b
in \aap
{Anderson}, D.~R. And {Hellier}, C. And {Gillon}, M. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Smalley}, B. And {Hebb}, L. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {West}, R.~G. And {Bentley}, S.~J. And {Enoch}, B. And {Horne}, K. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Mayor}, M. And {Parley}, N.~R. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Udry}, S. And {Wilson}, D.~M.
(2010)
WASP-17b: An Ultra-Low Density Planet in a Probable Retrograde Orbit
in \apj
{Ballo}, L. And {Braito}, V. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Sambruna}, R.~M. And {Tombesi}, F.
(2011)
The high-energy view of the broad-line radio galaxy 3C 111
in \mnras
{Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Faedi}, F. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {McCormac}, J. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Simpson}, E.~K. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Todd}, I. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Boisse}, I. And {Bouchy}, F. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Moutou}, C. And {Pepe}, F. And {Queloz}, D. And {Santerne}, A. And {Segransan}, D. And {Udry}, S. And {Bento}, J. And {Butters}, O.~W. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Mill
(2011)
WASP-38b: a transiting exoplanet in an eccentric, 6.87d period orbit
in \aap
{Bell}, C.~P.~M. And {Naylor}, T. And {Mayne}, N.~J. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Littlefair}, S.~P.
(2012)
Pre-main-sequence isochrones - I. The Pleiades benchmark
in \mnras
{Bolatto}, A.~D. And {Leroy}, A.~K. And {Jameson}, K. And {Ostriker}, E. And {Gordon}, K. And {Lawton}, B. And {Stanimirovi{\'c}}, S. And {Israel}, F.~P. And {Madden}, S.~C. And {Hony}, S. And {Sandstrom}, K.~M. And {Bot}, C. And {Rubio}, M. And {Winkler}, P.~F. And {Roman-Duval}, J. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {Indebetouw}, R.
(2011)
The State of the Gas and the Relation between Gas and Star Formation at Low Metallicity: The Small Magellanic Cloud
in \apj
{Bonanos}, A.~Z. And {Lennon}, D.~J. And {K{\"o}hlinger}, F. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Massa}, D.~L. And {Sewilo}, M. And {Evans}, C.~J. And {Panagia}, N. And {Babler}, B.~L. And {Block}, M. And {Bracker}, S. And {Engelbracht}, C.~W. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Hora}, J.~L. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Meade}, M.~R. And {Meixner}, M. And {Misselt}, K.~A. And {Robitaille}, T.~P. And {Shiao}, B. And {Whitney}, B.~A.
(2010)
Spitzer SAGE-SMC Infrared Photometry of Massive Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud
in \aj
{Botticella}, M.~T. And {Pastorello}, A. And {Smartt}, S.~J. And {Meikle}, W.~P.~S. And {Benetti}, S. And {Kotak}, R. And {Cappellaro}, E. And {Crockett}, R.~M. And {Mattila}, S. And {Sereno}, M. And {Patat}, F. And {Tsvetkov}, D. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Abraham}, D. And {Agnoletto}, I. And {Arbour}, R. And {Benn}, C. And {di Rico}, G. And {Elias-Rosa}, N. And {Gorshanov}, D.~L. And {Harutyunyan}, A. And {Hunter}, D. And {Lorenzi}, V. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Maguire}, K. And {Mendez}, J. An
(2009)
SN 2008S: an electron-capture SN from a super-AGB progenitor?
in \mnras
{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
{Boyer}, M.~L. And {McDonald}, I. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Babler}, B. And {Block}, M. And {Bracker}, S. And {Engelbracht}, C. And {Hora}, J. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Meade}, M. And {Meixner}, M. And {Misselt}, K. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {Sewilo}, M. And {Shiao}, B. And {Whitney}, B.
(2009)
Dust Production and Mass Loss in the Galactic Globular Cluster NGC 362
in \apj
{Boyer}, M.~L. And {Srinivasan}, S. And {Riebel}, D. And {McDonald}, I. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Clayton}, G.~C. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Meixner}, M. And {Sargent}, B.~A. And {Sloan}, G.~C.
(2012)
The Dust Budget of the Small Magellanic Cloud: Are Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars the Primary Dust Source at Low Metallicity?
in \apj
{Boyer}, M.~L. And {Srinivasan}, S. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {McDonald}, I. And {Meixner}, M. And {Zaritsky}, D. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Kemper}, F. And {Babler}, B. And {Block}, M. And {Bracker}, S. And {Engelbracht}, C.~W. And {Hora}, J. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Meade}, M. And {Misselt}, K. And {Robitaille}, T. And {Sewi{\l}o}, M. And {Shiao}, B. And {Whitney}, B.
(2011)
Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally Stripped, Low Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). II. Cool Evolved Stars
in \aj
{Boyer}, M.~L. And {Srinivasan}, S. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {McDonald}, I. And {Meixner}, M. And {Zaritsky}, D. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Kemper}, F. And {Babler}, B. And {Block}, M. And {Bracker}, S. And {Engelbracht}, C.~W. And {Hora}, J. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Meade}, M. And {Misselt}, K. And {Robitaille}, T. And {Sewi{\l}o}, M. And {Shiao}, B. And {Whitney}, B.
(2012)
Erratum: ''Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally Stripped, Low-metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). II. Cool Evolved Stars''
(2011, AJ, 142, 103)
in \aj
{Boyer}, M.~L. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {McDonald}, I. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Babler}, B. And {Block}, M. And {Bracker}, S. And {Engelbracht}, C. And {Hora}, J. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Meade}, M. And {Meixner}, M. And {Misselt}, K. And {Sewilo}, M. And {Shiao}, B. And {Whitney}, B.
(2010)
Is Dust Forming on the Red Giant Branch in 47 Tuc?
in \apjl
{Braito}, V. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Sambruna}, R.~M. And {Gofford}, J.
(2011)
Evidence for a circumnuclear and ionized absorber in the X-ray obscured broad-line radio galaxy 3C 445
in \mnras
{Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Cameron}, A.~C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Enoch}, B. And {Hellier}, C. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Miller}, G.~R.~M. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {Simpson}, E. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Boisse}, I. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Gillon}, M. And {H{\'e}brard}, G.
(2012)
Rossiter-McLaughlin effect measurements for WASP-16, WASP-25 and WASP-31
in \mnras
{Butters}, O.~W. And {West}, R.~G. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Clarkson}, W.~I. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Horne}, K. And {Joshi}, Y. And {Kane}, S.~R. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Parley}, N. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Todd}, I. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. And {Wilson}, D.~M.
(2010)
The first WASP public data release
in \aap
{Campo}, C.~J. And {Harrington}, J. And {Hardy}, R.~A. And {Stevenson}, K.~B. And {Nymeyer}, S. And {Ragozzine}, D. And {Lust}, N.~B. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Blecic}, J. And {Britt}, C.~B.~T. And {Bowman}, W.~C. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. And {Loredo}, T.~J. And {Deming}, D. And {Hebb}, L. And {Hellier}, C. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pollaco}, D. And {West}, R.~G.
(2011)
On the Orbit of Exoplanet WASP-12b
in \apj
{Cargile}, P.~A. And {James}, D.~J. And {Jeffries}, R.~D.
(2010)
Identification of the Lithium Depletion Boundary and Age of the Southern Open Cluster Blanco 1
in \apjl
{Chiappini}, C. And {Frischknecht}, U. And {Meynet}, G. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Barbuy}, B. And {Pignatari}, M. And {Decressin}, T. And {Maeder}, A.
(2011)
Imprints of fast-rotating massive stars in the Galactic Bulge
in \nat
{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 |