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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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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Bennett M (2010) The effect of 12 C + 12 C rate uncertainties on s-process yields in Journal of Physics: Conference Series

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Hellier Catherine (2009) Cause of death in judicial hanging: a review and case study in MEDICINE SCIENCE AND THE LAW

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Jeffries R (2006) An XMM-Newton observation of the young open cluster NGC 2547: coronal activity at 30 Myr in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Braito V (2013) Decoupling absorption and continuum variability in the Seyfert 2 NGC 4507 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Koen C (2006) Photometry of the magnetic white dwarf SDSS 121209.31+013627.7 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Oliveira J (2013) Early-stage young stellar objects in the Small Magellanic Cloud in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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McQuillin R (2012) Novae in the SuperWASP data base Novae in the SuperWASP data base in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Patrick A (2011) Iron line profiles in Suzaku spectra of bare Seyfert galaxies Iron line profiles in Suzaku spectra in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Matsuura M (2007) Spitzer Space Telescope spectral observations of AGB stars in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Chumak Y (2010) Numerical simulations of tidal tails for the open cluster NGC 188 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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

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Doyle A (2013) Accurate spectroscopic parameters of WASP planet host stars? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Brown D (2011) Are falling planets spinning up their host stars? Are falling planets spinning up their host stars? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Delrez L (2016) WASP-121 b: a hot Jupiter close to tidal disruption transiting an active F star in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Cameron A (2007) WASP-1b and WASP-2b: two new transiting exoplanets detected with SuperWASP and SOPHIE in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Worley C (2010) Heavy-element abundances in low-gravity globular cluster stars: 47 Tuc in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Stempels H (2007) WASP-1: a lithium- and metal-rich star with an oversized planet in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Nandra K (2007) An XMM-Newton survey of broad iron lines in Seyfert galaxies in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Yusof N (2013) Evolution and fate of very massive stars in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Jeffries R (2007) The Keele-Exeter young cluster survey - I. Low-mass pre-main-sequence stars in NGC 2169 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Oliveira J (2006) Circumstellar discs in the young s Orionis cluster in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Gofford J (2013) The Suzaku view of highly ionized outflows in AGN - I. Statistical detection and global absorber properties in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Lister T (2007) SuperWASP-North extrasolar planet candidates: candidates from fields 17 h < RA < 18 h in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Botticella M (2009) SN 2008S: an electron-capture SN from a super-AGB progenitor? in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Wils P (2010) Data mining for dwarf novae in SDSS, GALEX and astrometric catalogues Data mining for dwarf novae in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Bell C (2013) Pre-main-sequence isochrones - II. Revising star and planet formation time-scales in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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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

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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

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Patrick A (2012) A Suzaku survey of Fe K lines in Seyfert 1 active galactic nuclei Suzaku observations of iron lines 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