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
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
Wilson D. M.
(2008)
WASP-4b: A 12th magnitude transiting hot Jupiter in the southern hemisphere
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Wilson D. M.
(2006)
SuperWASP observations of the transiting extrasolar planet XO-1b
in PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC
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
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
West R
(2009)
The sub-Jupiter mass transiting exoplanet WASP-11b
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
West R
(2009)
THE LOW DENSITY TRANSITING EXOPLANET WASP-15b
in The Astronomical Journal
West R
(2016)
Three irradiated and bloated hot Jupiters: WASP-76b, WASP-82b, and WASP-90b?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Watson D.
(2006)
A log
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HI=22.6 damped Lya absorber in a dark gamma-ray burst:: The environment of GRB 050401
in 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 |