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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Jackson R (2009) The radii of M-dwarfs in the young open cluster NGC 2516 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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{Joshi}, Y.~C. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Skillen}, I. And {Simpson}, E. And {Steele}, I. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Stempels}, H.~C. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Hebb}, L. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Gibson}, N.~P. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Loeillet}, B. And {Meaburn}, J. And {Moutou}, C. And {Smalley}, B. And {Todd}, I. And {West}, R.~G. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Bentley}, S. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin} (2009) WASP-14b: 7.3 M$_{J}$ transiting planet in an eccentric orbit in \mnras

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{Sloan}, G.~C. And {Matsuura}, M. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. And {Lagadec}, E. And {Groenewegen}, M.~A.~T. And {Wood}, P.~R. And {Szyszka}, C. And {Bernard-Salas}, J. And {van Loon}, J.~T. (2009) Dust Formation in a Galaxy with Primitive Abundances in Science

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{Jackson}, R.~J. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. (2009) The radii of M-dwarfs in the young open cluster NGC 2516 in \mnras

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Lee M (2009) INFRARED DARK CLOUDS IN THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD? in The Astronomical Journal

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Avelino P (2009) Bifurcation and pattern changing with two real scalar fields in Physical Review D

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{Southworth}, J. And {Hinse}, T.~C. And {Dominik}, M. And {Glitrup}, M. And {J{\o}rgensen}, U.~G. And {Liebig}, C. And {Mathiasen}, M. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Bozza}, V. And {Browne}, P. And {Burgdorf}, M. And {Calchi Novati}, S. And {Dreizler}, S. And {Finet}, F. And {Harps{\o}e}, K. And {Hessman}, F. And {Hundertmark}, M. And {Maier}, G. And {Mancini}, L. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Rahvar}, S. And {Ricci}, D. And {Scarpetta}, G. And {Skottfelt}, J. And {Snodgrass}, C. And {Surdej}, J. And (2009) Physical Properties of the 0.94-Day Period Transiting Planetary System WASP-18 in \apj

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Smith A (2009) A SuperWASP search for additional transiting planets in 24 known systems in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Hebb L (2009) WASP-12b: THE HOTTEST TRANSITING EXTRASOLAR PLANET YET DISCOVERED in The Astrophysical Journal

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{Gordon}, K.~D. And {Bot}, C. And {Muller}, E. And {Misselt}, K.~A. And {Bolatto}, A. And {Bernard}, J.-P. And {Reach}, W. And {Engelbracht}, C.~W. And {Babler}, B. And {Bracker}, S. And {Block}, M. And {Clayton}, G.~C. And {Hora}, J. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Israel}, F.~P. And {Li}, A. And {Madden}, S. And {Meade}, M. And {Meixner}, M. And {Sewilo}, M. And {Shiao}, B. And {Smith}, L.~J. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Whitney}, B.~A. (2009) The Dust-to-Gas Ratio in the Small Magellanic Cloud Tail in \apjl

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{Hebb}, L. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Loeillet}, B. And {Pollacco}, D. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Stempels}, H.~C. And {Moutou}, C. And {Simpson}, E. And {Udry}, S. And {Joshi}, Y.~C. And {West}, R.~G. And {Skillen}, I. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {McDonald}, I. And {Gibson}, N.~P. And {Aigrain}, S. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Benn}, C.~R. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin}, J. And {Lister (2009) WASP-12b: The Hottest Transiting Extrasolar Planet Yet Discovered in \apj

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Miller L (2009) The absorption-dominated model for the X-ray spectra of type I active galaxies: MCG-6-30-15 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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Sloan GC (2009) Dust formation in a galaxy with primitive abundances. in Science (New York, N.Y.)

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Unda-Sanzana E (2009) The not-so-extreme white dwarf of the CV GD 552 in Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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Joshi Y (2009) WASP-14b: 7.3 M J transiting planet in an eccentric orbit in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Naylor}, T. And {Walter}, F.~M. And {Pozzo}, M.~P. And {Devey}, C.~R. (2009) The stellar association around Gamma Velorum and its relationship with Vela OB2 in \mnras

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Pyrzas S (2009) Post-common-envelope binaries from SDSS - V. Four eclipsing white dwarf main-sequence binaries 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