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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Tombesi F (2011) X-ray evidence for the accretion disc-outflow connection in 3C 111 Accretion disc-outflow connection in 3C 111 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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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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Hellier C (2011) ON THE ORBIT OF THE SHORT-PERIOD EXOPLANET WASP-19b in The Astrophysical Journal

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Copperwheat C (2011) Radial-velocity measurements of subdwarf B stars Radial-velocity measurements of sdB stars in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Miller}, G.~R.~M. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Southworth}, J. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. (2011) On the Orbit of the Short-period Exoplanet WASP-19b in \apjl

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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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{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

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{Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Lendl}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Udry}, S. (2011) WASP-31b: a low-density planet transiting a metal-poor, late-F-type dwarf star in \aap

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Turner T (2011) X-RAY CHARACTERISTICS OF NGC 3516: A VIEW THROUGH THE COMPLEX ABSORBER in The Astrophysical Journal

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{Simpson}, E.~K. And {Faedi}, F. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Hebb}, L. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Todd}, I. And {Butters}, O.~W. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {McCormac}, J. And {Miller}, G.~R.~M. And {Santerne}, A. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Skillen}, I. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Bento}, J. And {Boisse}, I. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Holmes}, S. And {Horne}, K. (2011) WASP-37b: A 1.8 M $_{J}$ Exoplanet Transiting a Metal-poor Star in \aj

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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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{Norton}, A.~J. And {Payne}, S.~G. And {Evans}, T. And {West}, R.~G. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Butters}, O.~W. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Enoch}, B. And {Faedi}, F. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Holmes}, S. And {Horne}, K.~D. And {Kane}, S.~R. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Parley}, N. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Simpson}, E.~K. And {Skillen}, I. And {Smalley}, B. And {Southworth}, J. And {Street (2011) Short period eclipsing binary candidates identified using SuperWASP in \aap

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Maxted P (2011) WASP-41b: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Planet Orbiting a Magnetically Active G8V Star in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

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McDonald I (2011) DUST PRODUCTION AND MASS LOSS IN THE GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTER 47 TUCANAE in The Astrophysical Journal

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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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Smith R (2011) Debris discs in the 27 Myr old open cluster IC 4665 Debris discs in IC4665 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Simpson E (2011) INDEPENDENT DISCOVERY OF THE TRANSITING EXOPLANET HAT-P-14b in The Astronomical Journal

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Ballo L (2011) The high-energy view of the broad-line radio galaxy 3C 111 High-energy view of 3C 111 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Patrick A (2011) Assessing black hole spin in deep Suzaku observations of Seyfert 1 AGN in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Matsuura}, M. And {Dwek}, E. And {Meixner}, M. And {Otsuka}, M. And {Babler}, B. And {Barlow}, M.~J. And {Roman-Duval}, J. And {Engelbracht}, C. And {Sandstrom}, K. And {Laki{\'c}evi{\'c}}, M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Sonneborn}, G. And {Clayton}, G.~C. And {Long}, K.~S. And {Lundqvist}, P. And {Nozawa}, T. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Hony}, S. And {Panuzzo}, P. And {Okumura}, K. And {Misselt}, K.~A. And {Montiel}, E. And {Sauvage}, M. (2011) Herschel Detects a Massive Dust Reservoir in Supernova 1987A in Science

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{Oliveira}, J.~M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Sloan}, G.~C. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Kemper}, F. And {Tielens}, A.~G.~G.~M. And {Simon}, J.~D. And {Woods}, P.~M. And {Meixner}, M. (2011) Ice chemistry in massive young stellar objects: the role of metallicity in \mnras

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Copperwheat C (2011) SDSS J0926+3624: the shortest period eclipsing binary star The shortest period eclipsing binary star in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Vanhuysse}, M. (2011) Spin-orbit measurements and refined parameters for the exoplanet systems WASP-22 and WASP-26 in \aap

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Littlefair S (2011) Accretion-induced luminosity spreads in young clusters: evidence from stellar rotation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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{Braito}, V. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Sambruna}, R.~M. And {Gofford}, J. (2011) Evidence for a circumnuclear and ionized absorber in the X-ray obscured broad-line radio galaxy 3C 445 in \mnras

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Simpson E (2011) WASP-37b: A 1.8 M J EXOPLANET TRANSITING A METAL-POOR STAR in The Astronomical Journal

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{Lobban}, A.~P. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Miller}, L. And {Turner}, T.~J. And {Braito}, V. And {Kraemer}, S.~B. And {Crenshaw}, D.~M. (2011) Contemporaneous Chandra HETG and Suzaku X-ray observations of NGC 4051 in \mnras

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Avelino PP (2011) Unified paradigm for interface dynamics. in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

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{Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Faedi}, F. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {McCormac}, J. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Simpson}, E.~K. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Todd}, I. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Boisse}, I. And {Bouchy}, F. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Moutou}, C. And {Pepe}, F. And {Queloz}, D. And {Santerne}, A. And {Segransan}, D. And {Udry}, S. And {Bento}, J. And {Butters}, O.~W. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Mill (2011) WASP-38b: a transiting exoplanet in an eccentric, 6.87d period orbit in \aap

 
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