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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Hénault-Brunet V (2012) The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey VII. A low velocity dispersion for the young massive cluster R136 in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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{Boyer}, M.~L. And {Srinivasan}, S. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {McDonald}, I. And {Meixner}, M. And {Zaritsky}, D. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Kemper}, F. And {Babler}, B. And {Block}, M. And {Bracker}, S. And {Engelbracht}, C.~W. And {Hora}, J. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Meade}, M. And {Misselt}, K. And {Robitaille}, T. And {Sewi{\l}o}, M. And {Shiao}, B. And {Whitney}, B. (2012) Erratum: ''Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally Stripped, Low-metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). II. Cool Evolved Stars'' (2011, AJ, 142, 103) in \aj

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McQuillin R (2012) Novae in the SuperWASP data base Novae in the SuperWASP data base in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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OLIVEIRA J (2012) PROTO-NEUTRON STAR FORMATION WITH DELTA-RESONANCE MATTER AND TRAPPED NEUTRINOS in International Journal of Modern Physics D

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Legg E (2012) DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF THE X-RAY TIME-DELAY TRANSFER FUNCTION IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI in The Astrophysical Journal

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{Frischknecht}, U. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Thielemann}, F.-K. (2012) Non-standard s-process in low metallicity massive rotating stars in \aap

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Skibba R (2012) THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF DUST AND STELLAR EMISSION OF THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS in The Astrophysical Journal

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Bennett M (2012) The effect of 12C +12C rate uncertainties on the evolution and nucleosynthesis of massive stars The effect of 12C +12C rate uncertainties in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Muijres L (2012) Mass-loss predictions for evolved very metal-poor massive stars in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Boyer M (2012) ERRATUM: "SURVEYING THE AGENTS OF GALAXY EVOLUTION IN THE TIDALLY STRIPPED, LOW-METALLICITY SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD (SAGE-SMC). II. COOL EVOLVED STARS" (2011, AJ, 142, 103) in The Astronomical Journal

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Anderson D (2012) WASP-44b, WASP-45b and WASP-46b: three short-period, transiting extrasolar planets WASP-44b, WASP-45b and WASP-46b in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Tombesi F (2013) Unification of X-ray winds in Seyfert galaxies: from ultra-fast outflows to warm absorbers in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Oliveira J (2013) Early-stage young stellar objects in the Small Magellanic Cloud in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Lohr}, M.~E. And {Norton}, A.~J. And {Kolb}, U.~C. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Todd}, I. And {West}, R.~G. (2013) Period and period change measurements for 143 SuperWASP eclipsing binary candidates near the short-period limit and discovery of a doubly eclipsing quadruple system in \aap

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{Pillitteri}, I. And {Wolk}, S.~J. And {Megeath}, S.~T. And {Allen}, L. And {Bally}, J. And {Gagn{\'e}}, M. And {Gutermuth}, R.~A. And {Hartman}, L. And {Micela}, G. And {Myers}, P. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {Sciortino}, S. And {Walter}, F. And {Rebull}, L. And {Stauffer}, J. (2013) Erratum: ''An X-Rays Survey of the Young Stellar Population of the Lynds 1641 and Iota Orionis Regions'' (2013, ApJ, 768, 99) in \apj

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Adams J (2013) DUSTY OB STARS IN THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD. II. EXTRAGALACTIC DISKS OR EXAMPLES OF THE PLEIADES PHENOMENON? in The Astrophysical Journal

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McQuillin R (2013) Black hole wind speeds and the M - s relation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Gould A (2013) MOA-2010-BLG-523: "FAILED PLANET" = RS CVn STAR in The Astrophysical Journal

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Indebetouw R (2013) ALMA RESOLVES 30 DORADUS: SUB-PARSEC MOLECULAR CLOUD STRUCTURE NEAR THE CLOSEST SUPER STAR CLUSTER in The Astrophysical Journal

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Triaud A (2013) WASP-80b: a gas giant transiting a cool dwarf in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Tombesi F (2013) An outburst scenario for the X-ray spectral variability in 3C 111 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Hébrard G (2013) WASP-52b, WASP-58b, WASP-59b, and WASP-60b: Four new transiting close-in giant planets in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Van Loon J (2013) The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey IX. The interstellar medium seen through diffuse interstellar bands and neutral sodium? in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Pignatari M (2013) PRODUCTION OF CARBON-RICH PRESOLAR GRAINS FROM MASSIVE STARS in The Astrophysical Journal

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Jeffries R (2013) A lithium depletion boundary age of 22 Myr for NGC 1960 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

 
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