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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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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Fleming S (2011) ECLIPSING BINARY SCIENCE VIA THE MERGING OF TRANSIT AND DOPPLER EXOPLANET SURVEY DATA-A CASE STUDY WITH THE MARVELS PILOT PROJECT AND SuperWASP in The Astronomical Journal

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Lee M (2009) INFRARED DARK CLOUDS IN THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD? in The Astronomical Journal

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Van Loon J (2010) ASPITZER SPACE TELESCOPEFAR-INFRARED SPECTRAL ATLAS OF COMPACT SOURCES IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS. II. THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD in The Astronomical Journal

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Exter K (2010) THE EXOTIC ECLIPSING NUCLEUS OF THE RING PLANETARY NEBULA SuWt 2 in The Astronomical Journal

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Boyer M (2008) A SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE ATLAS OF ? CENTAURI: THE STELLAR POPULATION, MASS LOSS, AND THE INTRACLUSTER MEDIUM in The Astronomical Journal

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

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Greiss S (2012) INITIAL DATA RELEASE OF THE KEPLER -INT SURVEY in The Astronomical Journal

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Barmby P (2009) A SPITZER SEARCH FOR COLD DUST WITHIN GLOBULAR CLUSTERS in The Astronomical Journal

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Simpson E (2011) INDEPENDENT DISCOVERY OF THE TRANSITING EXOPLANET HAT-P-14b in The Astronomical Journal

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Simpson E (2011) WASP-37b: A 1.8 M J EXOPLANET TRANSITING A METAL-POOR STAR in The Astronomical Journal

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Enoch B (2011) WASP-35b, WASP-48b, AND HAT-P-30b/WASP-51b: TWO NEW PLANETS AND AN INDEPENDENT DISCOVERY OF A HAT PLANET in The Astronomical Journal

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Wilson D (2008) WASP-4b: A 12th Magnitude Transiting Hot Jupiter in the Southern Hemisphere in The Astrophysical Journal

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Reeves J (2009) A COMPTON-THICK WIND IN THE HIGH-LUMINOSITY QUASAR, PDS 456 in The Astrophysical Journal

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Cargile P (2010) IDENTIFICATION OF THE LITHIUM DEPLETION BOUNDARY AND AGE OF THE SOUTHERN OPEN CLUSTER BLANCO 1 in The Astrophysical Journal

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Sambruna R (2009) STRUCTURE OF THE ACCRETION FLOW IN BROAD-LINE RADIO GALAXIES: THE CASE OF 3C 390.3 in The Astrophysical Journal

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Tombesi F (2010) DISCOVERY OF ULTRA-FAST OUTFLOWS IN A SAMPLE OF BROAD-LINE RADIO GALAXIES OBSERVED WITH SUZAKU in The Astrophysical Journal

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Sewilo M (2013) SURVEYING THE AGENTS OF GALAXY EVOLUTION IN THE TIDALLY STRIPPED, LOW METALLICITY SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD (SAGE-SMC). III. YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS in The Astrophysical Journal

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Risaliti G (2009) A STRONG EXCESS IN THE 20-100 keV EMISSION OF NGC 1365 in The Astrophysical Journal

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Kraemer S (2012) OBSERVATIONS OF OUTFLOWING ULTRAVIOLET ABSORBERS IN NGC 4051 WITH THE COSMIC ORIGINS SPECTROGRAPH in The Astrophysical Journal

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Shin I (2012) CHARACTERIZING LOW-MASS BINARIES FROM OBSERVATION OF LONG-TIMESCALE CAUSTIC-CROSSING GRAVITATIONAL MICROLENSING EVENTS in The Astrophysical Journal

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Hebb L (2010) WASP-19b: THE SHORTEST PERIOD TRANSITING EXOPLANET YET DISCOVERED in The Astrophysical Journal

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Oliveira J (2009) ICE CHEMISTRY IN EMBEDDED YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD in The Astrophysical Journal

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Gofford J (2014) REVEALING THE LOCATION AND STRUCTURE OF THE ACCRETION DISK WIND IN PDS 456 in The Astrophysical Journal

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Suda T (2011) STELLAR EVOLUTION CONSTRAINTS ON THE TRIPLE-a REACTION RATE in The 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