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
McDonald I
(2011)
FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS, INTEGRATED RED GIANT BRANCH MASS LOSS, AND DUST PRODUCTION IN THE GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTER 47 TUCANAE
in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Dickey J
(2013)
GASKAP-The Galactic ASKAP Survey
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
{Unda-Sanzana}, E. And {Marsh}, T.~R. And {G{\"a}nsicke}, B.~T. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Morales-Rueda}, L. And {Dhillon}, V.~S. And {Thoroughgood}, T.~D. And {Tremou}, E. And {Watson}, C.~A. And {Hinojosa-Go{\~n}i}, R.
(2008)
GD 552: a cataclysmic variable with a brown dwarf companion?
in \mnras
Unda-Sanzana E
(2008)
GD 552: a cataclysmic variable with a brown dwarf companion?
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Fernandes P.
(2008)
Geochemistry of the baixo alentejo flysch group, South Portuguese Zone: Implications for provenance and palaeoweathering
in GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
McDonald I
(2009)
Giants in the globular cluster ? Centauri: dust production, mass-loss and distance
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hirschi R.
(2006)
GRB progenitors at low metallicities
in NUOVO CIMENTO DELLA SOCIETA ITALIANA DI FISICA B-BASIC TOPICS IN PHYSICS
Ekström S
(2012)
Grids of stellar models with rotation I. Models from 0.8 to 120 M ? at solar metallicity ( Z = 0.014)?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Georgy C
(2012)
Grids of stellar models with rotation II. WR populations and supernovae/GRB progenitors at Z = 0.014
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Georgy C
(2013)
Grids of stellar models with rotation III. Models from 0.8 to 120 M ? at a metallicity Z = 0.002?
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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 |