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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Sergison D (2013) No evidence for intense, cold accretion on to YSOs from measurements of Li in T-Tauri stars in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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McQuillin R (2013) Black hole wind speeds and the M - s relation in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Gómez Maqueo Chew Y (2013) Discovery of WASP-65b and WASP-75b: Two hot Jupiters without highly inflated radii in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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{Pillitteri}, I. And {Wolk}, S.~J. And {Megeath}, S.~T. And {Allen}, L. And {Bally}, J. And {Gagn{\'e}}, M. And {Gutermuth}, R.~A. And {Hartman}, L. And {Micela}, G. And {Myers}, P. And {Oliveira}, J.~M. And {Sciortino}, S. And {Walter}, F. And {Rebull}, L. And {Stauffer}, J. (2013) Erratum: ''An X-Rays Survey of the Young Stellar Population of the Lynds 1641 and Iota Orionis Regions'' (2013, ApJ, 768, 99) in \apj

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Maxted P (2013) WASP-77 Ab: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Planet in a Wide Binary System1 in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

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Triaud A (2013) WASP-80b: a gas giant transiting a cool dwarf in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Blecic J (2013) THERMAL EMISSION OF WASP-14b REVEALED WITH THREE SPITZER ECLIPSES in The Astrophysical Journal

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Tombesi F (2013) Unification of X-ray winds in Seyfert galaxies: from ultra-fast outflows to warm absorbers in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

 
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