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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{Lobban}, A.~P. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Miller}, L. And {Turner}, T.~J. And {Braito}, V. And {Kraemer}, S.~B. And {Crenshaw}, D.~M. (2011) Contemporaneous Chandra HETG and Suzaku X-ray observations of NGC 4051 in \mnras

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{Pollacco}, D. And {Skillen}, I. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Loeillet}, B. And {Stempels}, H.~C. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Gibson}, N.~P. And {Hebb}, L. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Joshi}, Y.~C. And {McDonald}, I. And {Smalley}, B. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R.~G. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. And {Aigrain}, S. And {Alsubai}, K. And {Benn}, C.~R. And {Bruce}, V.~A. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Clarkson}, W.~I. And {Enoch}, B. And {Evans}, A. An (2008) WASP-3b: a strongly irradiated transiting gas-giant planet in \mnras

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{Lagadec}, E. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. And {Matsuura}, M. And {Menzies}, J.~W. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Whitelock}, P.~A. (2008) Dust mass-loss rates from asymptotic giant branch stars in the Fornax and Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxies in \mnras

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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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{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

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{Deca}, J. And {Marsh}, T.~R. And {{\O}stensen}, R.~H. And {Morales-Rueda}, L. And {Copperwheat}, C.~M. And {Wade}, R.~A. And {Stark}, M.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Nelemans}, G. And {Heber}, U. (2012) PG 1018-047: the longest period subdwarf B binary in \mnras

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{Parsons}, S.~G. And {Marsh}, T.~R. And {Copperwheat}, C.~M. And {Dhillon}, V.~S. And {Littlefair}, S.~P. And {Hickman}, R.~D.~G. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {G{\"a}nsicke}, B.~T. And {Unda-Sanzana}, E. And {Colque}, J.~P. And {Barraza}, N. And {S{\'a}nchez}, N. And {Monard}, L.~A.~G. (2010) Orbital period variations in eclipsing post-common-envelope binaries in \mnras

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{Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Jackson}, R.~J. And {James}, D.~J. And {Cargile}, P.~A. (2009) Low-mass members of the young cluster IC 4665 and pre-main-sequence lithium depletion in \mnras

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{Lobban}, A.~P. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Porquet}, D. And {Braito}, V. And {Markowitz}, A. And {Miller}, L. And {Turner}, T.~J. (2010) Evidence for a truncated accretion disc in the low-luminosity Seyfert galaxy, NGC 7213? 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

 
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