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
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
Porquet D
(2006)
An XMM-Newton view of the X-ray flat radio-quiet quasar PG 1416-129
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pollacco D
(2006)
The WASP Project and SuperWASP Camera
in Astrophysics and Space Science
Reeves J
(2005)
Evidence for Gravitational Infall of Matter onto the Supermassive Black Hole in the Quasar PG 1211+143?
in The Astrophysical 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 |