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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Triaud A (2013) WASP-80b: a gas giant transiting a cool dwarf in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Porquet D (2006) An XMM-Newton view of the X-ray flat radio-quiet quasar PG 1416-129 in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Uytterhoeven K (2010) Ground-based follow-up in relation to Kepler asteroseismic investigation in Astronomische Nachrichten

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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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Braito V (2006) The iron emission line complex of MCG-5-23-16: the long XMMNewton look in Astronomische Nachrichten

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Nandra K (2006) An XMM-Newton survey of broad iron lines in AGN in Astronomische Nachrichten

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Reeves J (2006) Suzaku observations of iron lines and reflection in AGN in Astronomische Nachrichten

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Christian D (2006) The WASP project in the era of robotic telescope networks in Astronomische Nachrichten

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Hilton Eric J. (2007) XMM-Newton observations of the cataclysmic variable GW Librae in ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

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Kittang A (2013) Adaptation response of Arabidopsis thaliana to random positioning in Advances in Space Research

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Reeves J (2006) XMM-Newton observation of a dust echo and X-ray flash in GRB 031203 in Advances in Space Research

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Tashiro M (2007) Strategy of the Suzaku gamma-ray burst observations in Advances in Space Research

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Garland Justin (2016) Spitzer Secondary Eclipses of WASP-32b in AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts #48

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{Massimi}, C. And {Koehler}, P. And {Bisterzo}, S. And {Colonna}, N. And {Gallino}, R. And {Gunsing}, F. And {K{\"a}ppeler}, F. And {Lorusso}, G. And {Mengoni}, A. And {Pignatari}, M. And {Vannini}, G. And {Abbondanno}, U. And {Aerts}, G. And {{\'A}lvarez}, H. And {{\'A}lvarez-Velarde}, F. And {Andriamonje}, S. And {Andrzejewski}, J. And {Assimakopoulos}, P. And {Audouin}, L. And {Badurek}, G. And {Barbagallo}, M. And {Baumann}, P. And {Be{\v C}v{\'a}{\v R}}, F. And {Belloni}, F. And {Bennett}, (2012) Resonance neutron-capture cross sections of stable magnesium isotopes and their astrophysical implications in \prc

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{Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Doyle}, A.~P. And {Fumel}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Southworth}, K. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R.~G. (2013) WASP-77 Ab: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Planet in a Wide Binary System in \pasp

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{Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Gillon}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Udry}, S. (2011) WASP-41b: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Planet Orbiting a Magnetically Active G8V Star in \pasp

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{Cioni}, M.-R.~L. And {Bekki}, K. And {Clementini}, G. And {de Blok}, W.~J.~G. And {Emerson}, J.~P. And {Evans}, C.~J. And {de Grijs}, R. And {Gibson}, B.~K. And {Girardi}, L. And {Groenewegen}, M.~A.~T. And {Ivanov}, V.~D. And {Leisy}, P. And {Marconi}, M. And {Mastropietro}, C. And {Moore}, B. And {Naylor}, T. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {Ripepi}, V. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Wilkinson}, M.~I. And {Wood}, P.~R. (2008) The Magellanic Clouds as a Template for the Study of Stellar Populations and Galaxy Interactions in \pasa

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{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

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{Littlefair}, S.~P. And {Naylor}, T. And {Mayne}, N.~J. And {Saunders}, E.~S. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. (2010) Rotation of young stars in Cepheus OB3b in \mnras

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{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

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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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{Southworth}, J. And {Mancini}, L. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Bruni}, I. And {Tregloan-Reed}, J. And {Barbieri}, M. And {Ruocco}, N. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. (2012) Physical properties and radius variations in the HAT-P-5 planetary system from simultaneous four-colour photometry in \mnras

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{McLaughlin}, D.~E. And {Barmby}, P. And {Harris}, W.~E. And {Forbes}, D.~A. And {Harris}, G.~L.~H. (2008) Structural parameters for globular clusters in NGC 5128 - III. ACS surface brightness profiles and model fits in \mnras

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{Collier Cameron}, A. And {Davidson}, V.~A. And {Hebb}, L. And {Skinner}, G. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Clarkson}, W.~I. And {Enoch}, B. And {Irwin}, J. And {Joshi}, Y. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Horne}, K.~D. And {Kane}, S.~R. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Norton}, A.~J. And {Parley}, N. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Ryans}, R. And {Scholz}, A. And {Skillen}, I. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {West}, R.~G. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And { (2009) The main-sequence rotation-colour relation in the Coma Berenices open cluster in \mnras

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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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{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

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{Ripepi}, V. And {Moretti}, M.~I. And {Marconi}, M. And {Clementini}, G. And {Cioni}, M.-R.~L. And {Marquette}, J.~B. And {Girardi}, L. And {Rubele}, S. And {Groenewegen}, M.~A.~T. And {de Grijs}, R. And {Gibson}, B.~K. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Emerson}, J.~P. (2012) The VMC survey - V. First results for classical Cepheids in \mnras

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{Tombesi}, F. And {Sambruna}, R.~M. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Reynolds}, C.~S. And {Braito}, V. (2011) X-ray evidence for the accretion disc-outflow connection in 3C 111 in \mnras

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{Joshi}, Y.~C. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Skillen}, I. And {Simpson}, E. And {Steele}, I. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Stempels}, H.~C. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Hebb}, L. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Gibson}, N.~P. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Loeillet}, B. And {Meaburn}, J. And {Moutou}, C. And {Smalley}, B. And {Todd}, I. And {West}, R.~G. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Bentley}, S. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin} (2009) WASP-14b: 7.3 M$_{J}$ transiting planet in an eccentric orbit in \mnras

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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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{Jackson}, R.~J. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. (2009) The radii of M-dwarfs in the young open cluster NGC 2516 in \mnras

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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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{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Doyle}, A.~P. And {Fumel}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Southworth}, J. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R.~G. (2012) Seven transiting hot Jupiters from WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-47b, WASP-55b, WASP-61b, WASP-62b, WASP-63b, WASP-66b and WASP-67b 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