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.
Organisations
Publications
Maxted P
(2007)
The mass and radius of the M-dwarf in the short-period eclipsing binary RR Caeli
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Lagadec E
(2007)
Dust mass-loss rates from asymptotic giant branch stars in the Fornax and Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxies Mass-losing AGB stars in Sgr and Fornax
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Barmby Pauline
(2007)
Structural parameters for globular clusters in M31 and generalizations for the fundamental plane
in ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Miniutti G
(2007)
Suzaku Observations of the Hard X-Ray Variability of MCG -6-30-15: the Effects of Strong Gravity around a Kerr Black Hole
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Turner T
(2007)
The variable X-ray spectrum of Markarian 766 II. Time-resolved spectroscopy
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Eggenberger P
(2007)
The Geneva stellar evolution code
in Astrophysics and Space Science
Bolatto Alberto D.
(2007)
The
Spitzer Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud:: S
3MC imaging and photometry in the mid- and far-infrared wave bands
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Mayne N
(2007)
Empirical isochrones and relative ages for young stars, and the radiative-convective gap Empirical isochrones
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Kataoka J
(2007)
Probing the Disk-Jet Connection of the Radio Galaxy 3C 120 Observed with Suzaku
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Hilton Eric J.
(2007)
XMM-Newton observations of the cataclysmic variable GW Librae
in ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
| 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 |