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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{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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{Clayton}, G.~C. And {Sargent}, B. And {Boyer}, M.~L. And {Whitney}, B.~A. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Meixner}, M. And {Tisserand}, P. And {Engelbracht}, C. And {Hony}, S. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Misselt}, K.~A. And {Okumura}, K. And {Panuzzo}, P. And {Roman-Duval}, J. And {Sauvage}, M. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {Sewi{\l}o}, M. And {Churchwell}, E. (2010) Herschel Observations of a Newly Discovered UX Ori Star in the Large Magellanic Cloud in \apj

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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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{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

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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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{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

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{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

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{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

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{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

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{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

 
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