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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{Turner}, T.~J. And {Miller}, L. And {Kraemer}, S.~B. And {Reeves}, J.~N. (2011) X-Ray Characteristics of NGC 3516: A View through the Complex Absorber in \apj

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{McDonald}, I. And {Boyer}, M.~L. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. (2011) Dust Production and Mass Loss in the Galactic Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae in \apj

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{Campo}, C.~J. And {Harrington}, J. And {Hardy}, R.~A. And {Stevenson}, K.~B. And {Nymeyer}, S. And {Ragozzine}, D. And {Lust}, N.~B. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Blecic}, J. And {Britt}, C.~B.~T. And {Bowman}, W.~C. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. And {Loredo}, T.~J. And {Deming}, D. And {Hebb}, L. And {Hellier}, C. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pollaco}, D. And {West}, R.~G. (2011) On the Orbit of Exoplanet WASP-12b in \apj

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{Tombesi}, F. And {Cappi}, M. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Palumbo}, G.~G.~C. And {Braito}, V. And {Dadina}, M. (2011) Evidence for Ultra-fast Outflows in Radio-quiet Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Detailed Photoionization Modeling of Fe K-shell Absorption Lines in \apj

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{Bolatto}, A.~D. And {Leroy}, A.~K. And {Jameson}, K. And {Ostriker}, E. And {Gordon}, K. And {Lawton}, B. And {Stanimirovi{\'c}}, S. And {Israel}, F.~P. And {Madden}, S.~C. And {Hony}, S. And {Sandstrom}, K.~M. And {Bot}, C. And {Rubio}, M. And {Winkler}, P.~F. And {Roman-Duval}, J. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {Indebetouw}, R. (2011) The State of the Gas and the Relation between Gas and Star Formation at Low Metallicity: The Small Magellanic Cloud 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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{Street}, R.~A. And {Simpson}, E. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Joshi}, Y. And {Todd}, I. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Enoch}, B. And {Parley}, N. And {Stempels}, E. And {Hebb}, L. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Queloz}, D. And {Segransan}, D. And {Pepe}, F. And {Udry}, S. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Depagne}, {\'E}. And {West}, R.~G. And {Norton}, A.~J. And {Smalley}, B. And {Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Bentley}, S.~J. And {Skillen}, I. And {G (2010) WASP-24 b: A New Transiting Close-in Hot Jupiter Orbiting a Late F-star in \apj

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{Boyer}, M.~L. And {McDonald}, I. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Babler}, B. And {Block}, M. And {Bracker}, S. And {Engelbracht}, C. And {Hora}, J. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Meade}, M. And {Meixner}, M. And {Misselt}, K. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {Sewilo}, M. And {Shiao}, B. And {Whitney}, B. (2009) Dust Production and Mass Loss in the Galactic Globular Cluster NGC 362 in \apj

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{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

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{Allen}, T.~S. And {Gutermuth}, R.~A. And {Kryukova}, E. And {Megeath}, S.~T. And {Pipher}, J.~L. And {Naylor}, T. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Wolk}, S.~J. And {Spitzbart}, B. And {Muzerolle}, J. (2012) Spitzer Imaging of the nearby Rich Young Cluster, Cep OB3b in \apj

 
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