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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{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Doyle}, A.~P. And {Fumel}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Southworth}, J. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R.~G. (2012) Seven transiting hot Jupiters from WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-47b, WASP-55b, WASP-61b, WASP-62b, WASP-63b, WASP-66b and WASP-67b in \mnras

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{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Southworth}, J. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R.~G. (2011) WASP-43b: the closest-orbiting hot Jupiter in \aap

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{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Enoch}, B. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Udry}, S. (2010) WASP-29b: A Saturn-sized Transiting Exoplanet in \apjl

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{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Miller}, G.~R.~M. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Southworth}, J. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. (2011) On the Orbit of the Short-period Exoplanet WASP-19b in \apjl

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{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Gillon}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {Alsubai}, K. And {Bentley}, S.~J. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Hebb}, L. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin}, J. And {Kane}, S.~R. And {Mayor}, M. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Skillen}, I. And {Udry}, S. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Enoch}, R. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Josh (2009) Wasp-7: A Bright Transiting-Exoplanet System in the Southern Hemisphere in \apjl

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{Hony}, S. And {Kemper}, F. And {Woods}, P.~M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Gorjian}, V. And {Madden}, S.~C. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Marengo}, M. And {Meixner}, M. And {Panuzzo}, P. And {Shiao}, B. And {Sloan}, G.~C. And {Roman-Duval}, J. And {Mullaney}, J. And {Tielens}, A.~G.~G.~M. (2011) The Spitzer discovery of a galaxy with infrared emission solely due to AGN activity in \aap

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{H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {D{\'{\i}}az}, R.~F. And {Faedi}, F. And {Smalley}, B. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Armstrong}, D. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Bento}, J. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Doyle}, A.~P. And {Enoch}, B. And {G{\'o}mez Maqueo Chew}, Y. And {H{\'e}brard}, {\'E}.~M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Lendl}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {McCormac}, J. And {Moutou}, C. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {Santerne}, A. And {Skillen (2013) WASP-52b, WASP-58b, WASP-59b, and WASP-60b: Four new transiting close-in giant planets in \aap

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{Jackson}, R.~J. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. (2012) Why do some young cool stars show spot modulation while others do not? in \mnras

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{Jackson}, R.~J. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. (2009) The radii of M-dwarfs in the young open cluster NGC 2516 in \mnras

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{Javadi}, A. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Mirtorabi}, M.~T. (2011) The UK Infrared Telescope M33 monitoring project - I. Variable red giant stars in the central square kiloparsec in \mnras

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{Javadi}, A. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Mirtorabi}, M.~T. (2011) The UK Infrared Telescope M33 monitoring project - II. The star formation history in the central square kiloparsec in \mnras

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{Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Jackson}, R.~J. And {Briggs}, K.~R. And {Evans}, P.~A. And {Pye}, J.~P. (2011) Investigating coronal saturation and supersaturation in fast-rotating M-dwarf stars 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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{Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Littlefair}, S.~P. And {Naylor}, T. And {Mayne}, N.~J. (2011) No wide spread of stellar ages in the Orion Nebula Cluster in \mnras

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{Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Naylor}, T. And {Walter}, F.~M. And {Pozzo}, M.~P. And {Devey}, C.~R. (2009) The stellar association around Gamma Velorum and its relationship with Vela OB2 in \mnras

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{Jones}, S. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Herwig}, F. And {Paxton}, B. And {Timmes}, F.~X. And {Nomoto}, K. (2012) Progenitors of electron-capture supernovae

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{Joshi}, Y.~C. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Skillen}, I. And {Simpson}, E. And {Steele}, I. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Stempels}, H.~C. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Hebb}, L. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Gibson}, N.~P. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Loeillet}, B. And {Meaburn}, J. And {Moutou}, C. And {Smalley}, B. And {Todd}, I. And {West}, R.~G. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Bentley}, S. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin} (2009) WASP-14b: 7.3 M$_{J}$ transiting planet in an eccentric orbit in \mnras

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{Kassim}, H.~A. And {Yusof}, N. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Eggenberger}, P. (2010) Effects of new nuclear reaction rates on the solar neutrino fluxes in \apss

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{Kraemer}, S.~B. And {Crenshaw}, D.~M. And {Dunn}, J.~P. And {Turner}, T.~J. And {Lobban}, A.~P. And {Miller}, L. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Fischer}, T.~C. And {Braito}, V. (2012) Observations of Outflowing Ultraviolet Absorbers in NGC 4051 with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph in \apj

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{Krongold}, Y. And {Elvis}, M. And {Andrade-Velazquez}, M. And {Nicastro}, F. And {Mathur}, S. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Brickhouse}, N.~S. And {Binette}, L. And {Jimenez-Bailon}, E. And {Grupe}, D. And {Liu}, Y. And {McHardy}, I.~M. And {Minezaki}, T. And {Yoshii}, Y. And {Wilkes}, B. (2010) Suzaku Monitoring of the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 5548: Warm Absorber Location and Its Implication for Cosmic Feedback in \apj

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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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{Lagadec}, E. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. And {Sloan}, G.~C. And {Wood}, P.~R. And {Matsuura}, M. And {Bernard-Salas}, J. And {Blommaert}, J.~A.~D.~L. And {Cioni}, M.-R.~L. And {Feast}, M.~W. And {Groenewegen}, M.~A.~T. And {Hony}, S. And {Menzies}, J.~W. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Whitelock}, P.~A. (2009) Metal-rich carbon stars in the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy in \mnras

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{Laki{\'c}evi{\'c}}, M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Patat}, F. And {Staveley-Smith}, L. And {Zanardo}, G. (2011) The remnant of SN 1987A revealed at (sub-)mm wavelengths in \aap

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{Laki{\'c}evi{\'c}}, M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Stanke}, T. And {De Breuck}, C. And {Patat}, F. (2012) Zooming in on Supernova 1987A at submillimetre wavelengths in \aap

 
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