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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Maxted P. F. L. (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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Behar E (2010) REMARKABLE SPECTRAL VARIABILITY OF PDS 456 in The Astrophysical Journal

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{Hebb}, L. And {Stempels}, H.~C. And {Aigrain}, S. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Hodgkin}, S.~T. And {Irwin}, J.~M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {Stassun}, K.~G. (2010) MML 53: a new low-mass, pre-main sequence eclipsing binary in the Upper Centaurus-Lupus region discovered by SuperWASP in \aap

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

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Turner T (2010) SIGNIFICANT X-RAY LINE EMISSION IN THE 5-6 keV BAND OF NGC 4051 in The Astrophysical Journal

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{Boyer}, M.~L. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {McDonald}, I. 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 {Sewilo}, M. And {Shiao}, B. And {Whitney}, B. (2010) Is Dust Forming on the Red Giant Branch in 47 Tuc? in \apjl

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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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{Littlefair}, S.~P. And {Naylor}, T. And {Mayne}, N.~J. And {Saunders}, E.~S. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. (2010) Rotation of young stars in Cepheus OB3b in \mnras

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

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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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{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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{Kassim}, H.~A. And {Yusof}, N. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Eggenberger}, P. (2010) Effects of new nuclear reaction rates on the solar neutrino fluxes in \apss

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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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{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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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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Anderson D (2010) H -band thermal emission from the 19-h period planet WASP-19b in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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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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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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{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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{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

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{Turner}, T.~J. And {Miller}, L. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Lobban}, A. And {Braito}, V. And {Kraemer}, S.~B. And {Crenshaw}, D.~M. (2010) Significant X-ray Line Emission in the 5-6 keV Band of NGC 4051 in \apj

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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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{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Enoch}, B. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Udry}, S. (2010) WASP-29b: A Saturn-sized Transiting Exoplanet in \apjl

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Van Loon JT (2010) Chemical evolution of star clusters. in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences

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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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{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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Butters O (2010) The first WASP public data release in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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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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{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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{Queloz}, D. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hebb}, L. And {Hellier}, C. And {Maxted}, P. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R. (2010) WASP-8b: a retrograde transiting planet in a multiple system in \aap

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

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

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

 
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