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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Ekström S (2008) Effects of rotation on the evolution of primordial stars in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Enoch B (2010) WASP-25b: a 0.6 MJ planet in the Southern hemisphere WASP-25b in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Evans A (2012) Solid-phase C60 in the peculiar binary XX Oph? C60 in XX Oph in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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Evans A (2006) The Spitzer Infrared Spectrometer view of V4334 Sgr (Sakurai's Object) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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Evans A. (2007) Silicate dust in the environment of RS Ophiuchi following the 2006 eruption in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS

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Evans C (2010) A MASSIVE RUNAWAY STAR FROM 30 DORADUS in The Astrophysical Journal

 
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