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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{Ripepi}, V. And {Moretti}, M.~I. And {Marconi}, M. And {Clementini}, G. And {Cioni}, M.-R.~L. And {Marquette}, J.~B. And {Girardi}, L. And {Rubele}, S. And {Groenewegen}, M.~A.~T. And {de Grijs}, R. And {Gibson}, B.~K. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Emerson}, J.~P. (2012) The VMC survey - V. First results for classical Cepheids in \mnras

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{Tombesi}, F. And {Sambruna}, R.~M. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Reynolds}, C.~S. And {Braito}, V. (2011) X-ray evidence for the accretion disc-outflow connection in 3C 111 in \mnras

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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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{McQuillin}, R. And {Evans}, A. And {Wilson}, D. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pollacco}, D. And {West}, R.~G. And {Hounsell}, R.~A. And {Bode}, M.~F. (2012) Novae in the SuperWASP data base 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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{Sim}, S.~A. And {Miller}, L. And {Long}, K.~S. And {Turner}, T.~J. And {Reeves}, J.~N. (2010) Multidimensional modelling of X-ray spectra for AGN accretion disc outflows - II in \mnras

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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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{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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{Patrick}, A.~R. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Porquet}, D. And {Markowitz}, A.~G. And {Lobban}, A.~P. And {Terashima}, Y. (2011) Iron line profiles in Suzaku spectra of bare Seyfert galaxies in \mnras

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{Woods}, P.~M. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {Kemper}, F. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Sargent}, B.~A. And {Matsuura}, M. And {Szczerba}, R. And {Volk}, K. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. And {Sloan}, G.~C. And {Lagadec}, E. And {McDonald}, I. And {Jones}, O. And {Gorjian}, V. And {Kraemer}, K.~E. And {Gielen}, C. And {Meixner}, M. And {Blum}, R.~D. And {Sewi{\l}o}, M. And {Riebel}, D. And {Shiao}, B. And {Chen}, C.-H.~R. And {Boyer}, M.~L. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Antoniou}, V. And {Bernard}, J.-P. And {Cohe (2011) The SAGE-Spec Spitzer Legacy programme: the life-cycle of dust and gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud - Point source classification I 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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{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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{Anderson}, D.~R. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pepe}, F. And {Queloz}, D. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Smalley}, B. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Bentley}, S.~J. And {Blecha}, A. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Enoch}, B. And {Hebb}, L. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin}, J. And {Joshi}, Y.~C. And {Kane}, S.~R. And {Marmier}, M. And {Mayor}, M. And {Parley}, N.~R. And {Pollacco}, D.~L. And {Pont}, F. And {Ryans}, R. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Skillen}, (2008) WASP-5b: a dense, very hot Jupiter transiting a 12th-mag Southern-hemisphere star 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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{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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{Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Burleigh}, M.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Heber}, U. And {G{\"a}nsicke}, B.~T. And {Geier}, S. And {Kupfer}, T. And {Marsh}, T.~R. And {Nelemans}, G. And {O'Toole}, S.~J. And {{\O}stensen}, R.~H. And {Smalley}, B. And {West}, R.~G. (2011) Discovery of a stripped red giant core in a bright eclipsing binary system in \mnras

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{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

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{Tombesi}, F. And {Cappi}, M. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Braito}, V. (2012) Evidence for ultrafast outflows in radio-quiet AGNs - III. Location and energetics 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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{Bell}, C.~P.~M. And {Naylor}, T. And {Mayne}, N.~J. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Littlefair}, S.~P. (2012) Pre-main-sequence isochrones - I. The Pleiades benchmark in \mnras

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{Unda-Sanzana}, E. And {Marsh}, T.~R. And {G{\"a}nsicke}, B.~T. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Morales-Rueda}, L. And {Dhillon}, V.~S. And {Thoroughgood}, T.~D. And {Tremou}, E. And {Watson}, C.~A. And {Hinojosa-Go{\~n}i}, R. (2008) GD 552: a cataclysmic variable with a brown dwarf companion? in \mnras

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{Botticella}, M.~T. And {Pastorello}, A. And {Smartt}, S.~J. And {Meikle}, W.~P.~S. And {Benetti}, S. And {Kotak}, R. And {Cappellaro}, E. And {Crockett}, R.~M. And {Mattila}, S. And {Sereno}, M. And {Patat}, F. And {Tsvetkov}, D. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Abraham}, D. And {Agnoletto}, I. And {Arbour}, R. And {Benn}, C. And {di Rico}, G. And {Elias-Rosa}, N. And {Gorshanov}, D.~L. And {Harutyunyan}, A. And {Hunter}, D. And {Lorenzi}, V. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Maguire}, K. And {Mendez}, J. An (2009) SN 2008S: an electron-capture SN from a super-AGB progenitor? in \mnras

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{Smith}, R. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. (2011) Debris discs in the 27 Myr old open cluster IC 4665 in \mnras

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{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

 
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