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
{Hebb}, L. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Smalley}, B. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Gillon}, M. And {Queloz}, D. And {West}, R.~G. And {Bentley}, S. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Horne}, K. And {Mayor}, M. And {Pepe}, F. And {Segransan}, D. And {Skillen}, I. And {Udry}, S. And {Wheatley}, P.~J.
(2010)
WASP-19b: The Shortest Period Transiting Exoplanet Yet Discovered
in \apj
{Hebb}, L. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Loeillet}, B. And {Pollacco}, D. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Stempels}, H.~C. And {Moutou}, C. And {Simpson}, E. And {Udry}, S. And {Joshi}, Y.~C. And {West}, R.~G. And {Skillen}, I. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {McDonald}, I. And {Gibson}, N.~P. And {Aigrain}, S. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Benn}, C.~R. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin}, J. And {Lister
(2009)
WASP-12b: The Hottest Transiting Extrasolar Planet Yet Discovered
in \apj
{Gordon}, K.~D. And {Meixner}, M. And {Meade}, M.~R. And {Whitney}, B. And {Engelbracht}, C. And {Bot}, C. And {Boyer}, M.~L. And {Lawton}, B. And {Sewi{\l}o}, M. And {Babler}, B. And {Bernard}, J.-P. And {Bracker}, S. And {Block}, M. And {Blum}, R. And {Bolatto}, A. And {Bonanos}, A. And {Harris}, J. And {Hora}, J.~L. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Misselt}, K. And {Reach}, W. And {Shiao}, B. And {Tielens}, X. And {Carlson}, L. And {Churchwell}, E. And {Clayton}, G.~C. And {Chen}, C.-H.~R. And {Coh
(2011)
Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally Stripped, Low Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). I. Overview
in \aj
{Gordon}, K.~D. And {Bot}, C. And {Muller}, E. And {Misselt}, K.~A. And {Bolatto}, A. And {Bernard}, J.-P. And {Reach}, W. And {Engelbracht}, C.~W. And {Babler}, B. And {Bracker}, S. And {Block}, M. And {Clayton}, G.~C. And {Hora}, J. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Israel}, F.~P. And {Li}, A. And {Madden}, S. And {Meade}, M. And {Meixner}, M. And {Sewilo}, M. And {Shiao}, B. And {Smith}, L.~J. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Whitney}, B.~A.
(2009)
The Dust-to-Gas Ratio in the Small Magellanic Cloud Tail
in \apjl
{Gliozzi}, M. And {Papadakis}, I.~E. And {Eracleous}, M. And {Sambruna}, R.~M. And {Ballantyne}, D.~R. And {Braito}, V. And {Reeves}, J.~N.
(2009)
Short-Term Variability and Power Spectral Density Analysis of the Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nucleus 3C 390.3
in \apj
{Gillon}, M. And {Doyle}, A.~P. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Bento}, J. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Enoch}, B. And {Faedi}, F. And {Hellier}, C. And {Jehin}, E. And {Magain}, P. And {Montalb{\'a}n}, J. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Segransan}, D. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Southworth}, J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R.~G. And {Wheatley}, P.~J.
(2011)
WASP-50 b: a hot Jupiter transiting a moderately active solar-type star
in \aap
{Gillon}, M. And {Demory}, B.-O. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Barman}, T. And {Hebb}, L. And {Montalb{\'a}n}, J. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Deleuil}, M. And {Magain}, P.
(2009)
VLT transit and occultation photometry for the bloated planet CoRoT-1b
in \aap
{Gillon}, M. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Hellier}, C. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pollaco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {West}, R.~G. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {Bentley}, S.~J. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Enoch}, B. And {Hebb}, L. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin}, J. And {Joshi}, Y.~C. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Mayor}, M. And {Pepe}, F. And {Parley}, N. And {Segransan}, D. And {Udry}, S. And {Wheatley}, P.~J.
(2009)
Discovery and characterization of WASP-6b, an inflated sub-Jupiter mass planet transiting a solar-type star
in \aap
{Geier}, S. And {Schaffenroth}, V. And {Hirsch}, H. And {Tillich}, A. And {Heber}, U. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {{\O}stensen}, R.~H. And {Barlow}, B.~N. And {O'Toole}, S.~J. And {Kupfer}, T. And {Marsh}, T. And {G{\"a}nsicke}, B. And {Napiwotzki}, R. And {Cordes}, O. And {M{\"u}ller}, S. And {Classen}, L. And {Ziegerer}, E. And {Drechsel}, H.
(2012)
MUCHFUSS - Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS
in Astronomische Nachrichten
{Geier}, S. And {Heber}, U. And {Tillich}, A. And {Hirsch}, H. And {Edelmann}, H. And {Schaffenroth}, V. And {Kupfer}, T. And {M{\"u}ller}, S. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {{\O}stensen}, R. And {Podsiadlowski}, P. And {Marsh}, T. And {G{\"a}nsicke}, B. And {Morales-Rueda}, L. And {Nelemans}, G. And {Napiwotzki}, R. And {G{\"u}nther}, E.~W. And {Carone}, L.
(2010)
Hot subdwarfs in binary systems and the nature of their unseen companions
in \apss
{Frischknecht}, U. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Thielemann}, F.-K.
(2012)
Non-standard s-process in low metallicity massive rotating stars
in \aap
{Frischknecht}, U. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Meynet}, G. And {Ekstr{\"o}m}, S. And {Georgy}, C. And {Rauscher}, T. And {Winteler}, C. And {Thielemann}, F.-K.
(2010)
Constraints on rotational mixing from surface evolution of light elements in massive stars
in \aap
{Faedi}, F. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Boisse}, I. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Lendl}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Bento}, J. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Butters}, O.~W. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Miller}, G.~R.~M. And {Moulds}, V. And {Moutou}, C. And {Norton}, A.~J. And {Queloz}, D. And {Santerne
(2011)
WASP-39b: a highly inflated Saturn-mass planet orbiting a late G-type star
in \aap
{Exter}, K. And {Bond}, H.~E. And {Stassun}, K.~G. And {Smalley}, B. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pollacco}, D.~L.
(2010)
The Exotic Eclipsing Nucleus of the Ring Planetary Nebula SuWt 2
in \aj
{Evans}, D.~A. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Hardcastle}, M.~J. And {Kraft}, R.~P. And {Lee}, J.~C. And {Virani}, S.~N.
(2010)
The Hard X-ray View of Reflection, Absorption, and the Disk-Jet Connection in the Radio-loud AGN 3C 33
in \apj
{Evans}, C.~J. And {Walborn}, N.~R. And {Crowther}, P.~A. And {H{\'e}nault-Brunet}, V. And {Massa}, D. And {Taylor}, W.~D. And {Howarth}, I.~D. And {Sana}, H. And {Lennon}, D.~J. And {van Loon}, J.~T.
(2010)
A Massive Runaway Star from 30 Doradus
in \apjl
{Enoch}, B. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Faedi}, F. And {Gillon}, M. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Queloz}, D. And {Santerne}, A. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Bento}, J. And {Butters}, O. And {Fossati}, L. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Holmes}, S. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {McCormac}, J. An
(2011)
WASP-35b, WASP-48b, and HAT-P-30b/WASP-51b: Two New Planets and an Independent Discovery of a Hat Planet
in \aj
{Eggenberger}, P. And {Meynet}, G. And {Maeder}, A. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Charbonnel}, C. And {Talon}, S. And {Ekstr{\"o}m}, S.
(2008)
The Geneva stellar evolution code
in \apss
{Deca}, J. And {Marsh}, T.~R. And {{\O}stensen}, R.~H. And {Morales-Rueda}, L. And {Copperwheat}, C.~M. And {Wade}, R.~A. And {Stark}, M.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Nelemans}, G. And {Heber}, U.
(2012)
PG 1018-047: the longest period subdwarf B binary
in \mnras
{Copperwheat}, C.~M. And {Morales-Rueda}, L. And {Marsh}, T.~R. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Heber}, U.
(2011)
Radial-velocity measurements of subdwarf B stars
in \mnras
{Collier Cameron}, A. And {Davidson}, V.~A. And {Hebb}, L. And {Skinner}, G. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Clarkson}, W.~I. And {Enoch}, B. And {Irwin}, J. And {Joshi}, Y. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Horne}, K.~D. And {Kane}, S.~R. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Norton}, A.~J. And {Parley}, N. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Ryans}, R. And {Scholz}, A. And {Skillen}, I. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {West}, R.~G. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {
(2009)
The main-sequence rotation-colour relation in the Coma Berenices open cluster
in \mnras
{Clayton}, G.~C. And {Sargent}, B. And {Boyer}, M.~L. And {Whitney}, B.~A. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Meixner}, M. And {Tisserand}, P. And {Engelbracht}, C. And {Hony}, S. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Misselt}, K.~A. And {Okumura}, K. And {Panuzzo}, P. And {Roman-Duval}, J. And {Sauvage}, M. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {Sewi{\l}o}, M. And {Churchwell}, E.
(2010)
Herschel Observations of a Newly Discovered UX Ori Star in the Large Magellanic Cloud
in \apj
{Cioni}, M.-R.~L. And {Bekki}, K. And {Clementini}, G. And {de Blok}, W.~J.~G. And {Emerson}, J.~P. And {Evans}, C.~J. And {de Grijs}, R. And {Gibson}, B.~K. And {Girardi}, L. And {Groenewegen}, M.~A.~T. And {Ivanov}, V.~D. And {Leisy}, P. And {Marconi}, M. And {Mastropietro}, C. And {Moore}, B. And {Naylor}, T. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {Ripepi}, V. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Wilkinson}, M.~I. And {Wood}, P.~R.
(2008)
The Magellanic Clouds as a Template for the Study of Stellar Populations and Galaxy Interactions
in \pasa
{Chumak}, Y.~O. And {Platais}, I. And {McLaughlin}, D.~E. And {Rastorguev}, A.~S. And {Chumak}, O.~V.
(2010)
Numerical simulations of tidal tails for the open cluster NGC 188
in \mnras
{Chiappini}, C. And {Frischknecht}, U. And {Meynet}, G. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Barbuy}, B. And {Pignatari}, M. And {Decressin}, T. And {Maeder}, A.
(2011)
Imprints of fast-rotating massive stars in the Galactic Bulge
in \nat
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 |