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.~J. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. (2012) Why do some young cool stars show spot modulation while others do not? in \mnras

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{H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {D{\'{\i}}az}, R.~F. And {Faedi}, F. And {Smalley}, B. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Armstrong}, D. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Bento}, J. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Doyle}, A.~P. And {Enoch}, B. And {G{\'o}mez Maqueo Chew}, Y. And {H{\'e}brard}, {\'E}.~M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Lendl}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {McCormac}, J. And {Moutou}, C. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {Santerne}, A. And {Skillen (2013) WASP-52b, WASP-58b, WASP-59b, and WASP-60b: Four new transiting close-in giant planets in \aap

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{Hony}, S. And {Kemper}, F. And {Woods}, P.~M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Gorjian}, V. And {Madden}, S.~C. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. And {Gordon}, K.~D. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Marengo}, M. And {Meixner}, M. And {Panuzzo}, P. And {Shiao}, B. And {Sloan}, G.~C. And {Roman-Duval}, J. And {Mullaney}, J. And {Tielens}, A.~G.~G.~M. (2011) The Spitzer discovery of a galaxy with infrared emission solely due to AGN activity in \aap

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{Hirschi}, R. And {Maeder}, A. (2010) The GSF instability and turbulence do not account for the relatively low rotation rate of pulsars in \aap

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{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Gillon}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {Alsubai}, K. And {Bentley}, S.~J. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Hebb}, L. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin}, J. And {Kane}, S.~R. And {Mayor}, M. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Skillen}, I. And {Udry}, S. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Enoch}, R. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Josh (2009) Wasp-7: A Bright Transiting-Exoplanet System in the Southern Hemisphere in \apjl

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{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Miller}, G.~R.~M. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Southworth}, J. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. (2011) On the Orbit of the Short-period Exoplanet WASP-19b in \apjl

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{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. 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 {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Enoch}, B. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Udry}, S. (2010) WASP-29b: A Saturn-sized Transiting Exoplanet in \apjl

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{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Southworth}, J. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R.~G. (2011) WASP-43b: the closest-orbiting hot Jupiter in \aap

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{Hellier}, C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Doyle}, A.~P. And {Fumel}, A. And {Gillon}, M. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Southworth}, J. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R.~G. (2012) Seven transiting hot Jupiters from WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-47b, WASP-55b, WASP-61b, WASP-62b, WASP-63b, WASP-66b and WASP-67b in \mnras

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{Hebb}, L. And {Stempels}, H.~C. And {Aigrain}, S. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Hodgkin}, S.~T. And {Irwin}, J.~M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {Stassun}, K.~G. (2010) MML 53: a new low-mass, pre-main sequence eclipsing binary in the Upper Centaurus-Lupus region discovered by SuperWASP in \aap

 
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