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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{Skibba}, R.~A. And {Engelbracht}, C.~W. And {Aniano}, G. And {Babler}, B. And {Bernard}, J.-P. And {Bot}, C. And {Carlson}, L.~R. And {Galametz}, M. And {Galliano}, F. And {Gordon}, K. And {Hony}, S. And {Israel}, F. And {Lebouteiller}, V. And {Li}, A. And {Madden}, S. And {Meixner}, M. And {Misselt}, K. And {Montiel}, E. And {Okumura}, K. And {Panuzzo}, P. And {Paradis}, D. And {Roman-Duval}, J. And {Rubio}, M. And {Sauvage}, M. And {Seale}, J. And {Srinivasan}, S. And {van Loon}, J.~T. (2012) The Spatial Distribution of Dust and Stellar Emission of the Magellanic Clouds in \apj

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{Lendl}, M. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Doyle}, A.~P. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R.~G. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. (2012) WASP-42 b and WASP-49 b: two new transiting sub-Jupiters in \aap

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McDonald I (2012) Carbon enrichment of the evolved stars in the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Jehin}, E. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Segransan}, D. And {Southworth}, J. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Udry}, S. (2012) WASP-36b: A New Transiting Planet around a Metal-poor G-dwarf, and an Investigation into Analyses Based on a Single Transit Light Curve in \aj

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{Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Cameron}, A.~C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Enoch}, B. And {Hellier}, C. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Miller}, G.~R.~M. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {Simpson}, E. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Boisse}, I. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Gillon}, M. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. (2012) Rossiter-McLaughlin effect measurements for WASP-16, WASP-25 and WASP-31 in \mnras

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{Boyer}, M.~L. And {Srinivasan}, S. And {Riebel}, D. And {McDonald}, I. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Clayton}, G.~C. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Meixner}, M. And {Sargent}, B.~A. And {Sloan}, G.~C. (2012) The Dust Budget of the Small Magellanic Cloud: Are Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars the Primary Dust Source at Low Metallicity? in \apj

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Gullieuszik M (2012) The VMC survey III. Mass-loss rates and luminosities of LMC AGB stars?????? in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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{Boyer}, M.~L. And {Srinivasan}, S. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {McDonald}, I. And {Meixner}, M. And {Zaritsky}, D. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Kemper}, F. And {Babler}, B. And {Block}, M. And {Bracker}, S. And {Engelbracht}, C.~W. And {Hora}, J. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Meade}, M. And {Misselt}, K. And {Robitaille}, T. And {Sewi{\l}o}, M. And {Shiao}, B. And {Whitney}, B. (2012) Erratum: ''Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally Stripped, Low-metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). II. Cool Evolved Stars'' (2011, AJ, 142, 103) in \aj

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Shin I (2012) MICROLENSING BINARIES DISCOVERED THROUGH HIGH-MAGNIFICATION CHANNEL in The Astrophysical Journal

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Southworth John (2012) ASTRONOMY A new class of planet in NATURE

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{Deca}, J. And {Marsh}, T.~R. And {{\O}stensen}, R.~H. And {Morales-Rueda}, L. And {Copperwheat}, C.~M. And {Wade}, R.~A. And {Stark}, M.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Nelemans}, G. And {Heber}, U. (2012) PG 1018-047: the longest period subdwarf B binary in \mnras

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{Laki{\'c}evi{\'c}}, M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Stanke}, T. And {De Breuck}, C. And {Patat}, F. (2012) Zooming in on Supernova 1987A at submillimetre wavelengths in \aap

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Southworth J (2012) Refined physical properties of the HAT-P-13 planetary system Physical properties of HAT-P-13 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Tillich}, A. And {Heber}, U. And {Geier}, S. And {Hirsch}, H. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {G{\"a}nsicke}, B.~T. And {Marsh}, T.~R. And {Napiwotzki}, R. And {{\O}stensen}, R.~H. And {Scholz}, R.-D. (2011) The Hyper-MUCHFUSS project: probing the Galactic halo with sdB stars in \aap

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Meynet Georges (2011) Red Supergiants, Luminous Blue Variables and Wolf-Rayet stars: the single massive star perspective in Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege

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Maxted P (2011) Discovery of a stripped red giant core in a bright eclipsing binary system? J0247-25 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Lehmann H (2011) Spectral analysis of Kepler SPB and ß Cephei candidate stars in Astronomy & Astrophysics

 
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