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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Fedele D (2010) Timescale of mass accretion in pre-main-sequence stars in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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{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

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{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

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Chumak Y (2010) Numerical simulations of tidal tails for the open cluster NGC 188 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Exter K (2010) THE EXOTIC ECLIPSING NUCLEUS OF THE RING PLANETARY NEBULA SuWt 2 in The Astronomical Journal

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Copperwheat C (2010) Physical properties of IP Pegasi: an eclipsing dwarf nova with an unusually cool white dwarf in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Sim S (2010) Multidimensional modelling of X-ray spectra for AGN accretion disc outflows - II in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Miller L (2010) Spectral variability and reverberation time delays in the Suzaku X-ray spectrum of NGC 4051 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Littlefair S (2010) Rotation of young stars in Cepheus OB3b Rotation of young stars in Cep OB3b in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Parsons S (2010) Orbital period variations in eclipsing post-common-envelope binaries Eclipsing PCEBs in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Maxted P (2010) WASP-32b: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Planet Orbiting a Lithium-Poor, Solar-Type Star in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

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Geier S (2010) Hot subdwarfs in binary systems and the nature of their unseen companions in Astrophysics and Space Science

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Enoch B (2010) WASP-25b: a 0.6 MJ planet in the Southern hemisphere WASP-25b in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Otsuka}, M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Long}, K.~S. And {Meixner}, M. And {Matsuura}, M. And {Reach}, W.~T. And {Roman-Duval}, J. And {Gordon}, K. And {Sauvage}, M. And {Hony}, S. And {Misselt}, K. And {Engelbracht}, C. And {Panuzzo}, P. And {Okumura}, K. And {Woods}, P.~M. And {Kemper}, F. And {Sloan}, G.~C. (2010) Dust in the bright supernova remnant N49 in the LMC in \aap

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Boyer M (2010) IS DUST FORMING ON THE RED GIANT BRANCH IN 47 Tuc? in The Astrophysical Journal

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{Anderson}, D.~R. And {Gillon}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Barman}, T.~S. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. (2010) H-band thermal emission from the 19-h period planet WASP-19b in \aap

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Tillich A (2010) The HYPER-MUCHFUSS project-the constant high-velocity population in Astrophysics and Space Science

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{Tombesi}, F. And {Sambruna}, R.~M. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Braito}, V. And {Ballo}, L. And {Gofford}, J. And {Cappi}, M. And {Mushotzky}, R.~F. (2010) Discovery of Ultra-fast Outflows in a Sample of Broad-line Radio Galaxies Observed with Suzaku in \apj

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{Anderson}, D.~R. And {Hellier}, C. And {Gillon}, M. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Smalley}, B. And {Hebb}, L. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {West}, R.~G. And {Bentley}, S.~J. And {Enoch}, B. And {Horne}, K. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Mayor}, M. And {Parley}, N.~R. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Udry}, S. And {Wilson}, D.~M. (2010) WASP-17b: An Ultra-Low Density Planet in a Probable Retrograde Orbit in \apj

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Maiolino R (2010) "Comets" orbiting a black hole in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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{Cargile}, P.~A. And {James}, D.~J. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. (2010) Identification of the Lithium Depletion Boundary and Age of the Southern Open Cluster Blanco 1 in \apjl

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{Meixner}, M. And {Galliano}, F. And {Hony}, S. And {Roman-Duval}, J. And {Robitaille}, T. And {Panuzzo}, P. And {Sauvage}, M. And {Gordon}, K. And {Engelbracht}, C. And {Misselt}, K. And {Okumura}, K. And {Beck}, T. And {Bernard}, J.-P. And {Bolatto}, A. And {Bot}, C. And {Boyer}, M. And {Bracker}, S. And {Carlson}, L.~R. And {Clayton}, G.~C. And {Chen}, C.-H.~R. And {Churchwell}, E. And {Fukui}, Y. And {Galametz}, M. And {Hora}, J.~L. And {Hughes}, A. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Israel}, F.~P. (2010) HERschel Inventory of The Agents of Galaxy Evolution (HERITAGE): The Large Magellanic Cloud dust in \aap

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Smalley B (2010) WASP-26b: a 1-Jupiter-mass planet around an early-G-type star in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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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

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{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

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{Miller}, L. And {Turner}, T.~J. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Lobban}, A. And {Kraemer}, S.~B. And {Crenshaw}, D.~M. (2010) Spectral variability and reverberation time delays in the Suzaku X-ray spectrum of NGC 4051 in \mnras

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Wils P (2010) Data mining for dwarf novae in SDSS, GALEX and astrometric catalogues Data mining for dwarf novae in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Sewilo M (2010) The youngest massive protostars in the Large Magellanic Cloud in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Younes G (2010) X-ray and multiwavelength view of NGC 4278 A LINER-Seyfert connection? in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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{Smalley}, B. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Bentley}, S.~J. And {Enoch}, B. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D.~L. And {Segransan}, D. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Southworth}, J. And {Udry}, S. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. And {Wood}, P.~L. And {Bento}, J. (2010) WASP-26b: a 1-Jupiter-mass planet around an early-G-type star in \aap

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Miller L (2010) X-ray reverberation in 1H 0707-495 revisited X-ray reverberation in 1H 0707-495 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Barros S (2010) WASP-38b: a transiting exoplanet in an eccentric, 6.87d period orbit in Astronomy & Astrophysics

 
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