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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Jones S (2013) ADVANCED BURNING STAGES AND FATE OF 8-10 M ? STARS in The Astrophysical Journal

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Hernández J (2008) A Spitzer View of Protoplanetary Disks in the ? Velorum Cluster in The Astrophysical Journal

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Platais I (2011) A NEW LOOK AT THE OLD STAR CLUSTER NGC 6791 in The Astrophysical Journal

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Reeves J (2013) A HIGH RESOLUTION VIEW OF THE WARM ABSORBER IN THE QUASAR MR 2251-178 in The Astrophysical Journal

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Boyer M (2012) THE DUST BUDGET OF THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD: ARE ASYMPTOTIC GIANT BRANCH STARS THE PRIMARY DUST SOURCE AT LOW METALLICITY? in The Astrophysical Journal

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Choi J (2012) CHARACTERIZING LENSES AND LENSED STARS OF HIGH-MAGNIFICATION SINGLE-LENS GRAVITATIONAL MICROLENSING EVENTS WITH LENSES PASSING OVER SOURCE STARS in The Astrophysical Journal

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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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Hekker S (2010) DISCOVERY OF A RED GIANT WITH SOLAR-LIKE OSCILLATIONS IN AN ECLIPSING BINARY SYSTEM FROM KEPLER SPACE-BASED PHOTOMETRY in The Astrophysical Journal

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Allen T (2012) SPITZER IMAGING OF THE NEARBY RICH YOUNG CLUSTER, Cep OB3b in The Astrophysical Journal

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Evans C (2010) A MASSIVE RUNAWAY STAR FROM 30 DORADUS in The Astrophysical Journal

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Turner T (2009) SUZAKU OBSERVATION OF A HARD EXCESS IN 1H 0419 - 577: DETECTION OF A COMPTON-THICK PARTIAL-COVERING ABSORBER in The Astrophysical Journal

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Lister T (2009) WASP-16b: A NEW JUPITER-LIKE PLANET TRANSITING A SOUTHERN SOLAR ANALOG in The Astrophysical Journal

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Hermes J (2011) DISCOVERY OF A ZZ CETI IN THE KEPLER MISSION FIELD in The Astrophysical Journal

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Mukadam A (2010) MULTI-SITE OBSERVATIONS OF PULSATION IN THE ACCRETING WHITE DWARF SDSS J161033.64-010223.3 (V386 Ser) in The Astrophysical Journal

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Tombesi F (2011) EVIDENCE FOR ULTRA-FAST OUTFLOWS IN RADIO-QUIET ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI. II. DETAILED PHOTOIONIZATION MODELING OF Fe K-SHELL ABSORPTION LINES in The Astrophysical Journal

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Pavlovski K (2011) APSIDAL MOTION OF THE ECLIPSING BINARY AS CAMELOPARDALIS: DISCREPANCY RESOLVED in The Astrophysical Journal

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Nymeyer S (2011) SPITZER SECONDARY ECLIPSES OF WASP-18b in The Astrophysical Journal

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Pignatari M (2013) SILICON CARBIDE GRAINS OF TYPE C PROVIDE EVIDENCE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THE UNSTABLE ISOTOPE 32 Si IN SUPERNOVAE in The Astrophysical Journal

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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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Anderson D (2010) WASP-17b: AN ULTRA-LOW DENSITY PLANET IN A PROBABLE RETROGRADE ORBIT in The Astrophysical Journal

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Hebb L (2009) WASP-12b: THE HOTTEST TRANSITING EXTRASOLAR PLANET YET DISCOVERED in The Astrophysical Journal

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Ryu Y (2010) OGLE-2009-BLG-092/MOA-2009-BLG-137: A DRAMATIC REPEATING EVENT WITH THE SECOND PERTURBATION PREDICTED BY REAL-TIME ANALYSIS in The Astrophysical Journal

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Blecic J (2013) THERMAL EMISSION OF WASP-14b REVEALED WITH THREE SPITZER ECLIPSES in The Astrophysical Journal

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Hellier C (2010) WASP-29b: A SATURN-SIZED TRANSITING EXOPLANET in The Astrophysical Journal

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Gliozzi M (2009) SHORT-TERM VARIABILITY AND POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY ANALYSIS OF THE RADIO-LOUD ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS 3C 390.3 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