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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{Geier}, S. And {Heber}, U. And {Tillich}, A. And {Hirsch}, H. And {Edelmann}, H. And {Schaffenroth}, V. And {Kupfer}, T. And {M{\"u}ller}, S. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {{\O}stensen}, R. And {Podsiadlowski}, P. And {Marsh}, T. And {G{\"a}nsicke}, B. And {Morales-Rueda}, L. And {Nelemans}, G. And {Napiwotzki}, R. And {G{\"u}nther}, E.~W. And {Carone}, L. (2010) Hot subdwarfs in binary systems and the nature of their unseen companions in \apss

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{Kassim}, H.~A. And {Yusof}, N. And {Hirschi}, R. And {Eggenberger}, P. (2010) Effects of new nuclear reaction rates on the solar neutrino fluxes in \apss

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{Oliveira}, J.~M. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. And {van Loon}, J.~T. (2009) The low-mass initial mass function in the young cluster NGC6611 in \mnras

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{Javadi}, A. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Mirtorabi}, M.~T. (2011) The UK Infrared Telescope M33 monitoring project - II. The star formation history in the central square kiloparsec in \mnras

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{Oliveira}, J.~M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Sloan}, G.~C. And {Indebetouw}, R. And {Kemper}, F. And {Tielens}, A.~G.~G.~M. And {Simon}, J.~D. And {Woods}, P.~M. And {Meixner}, M. (2011) Ice chemistry in massive young stellar objects: the role of metallicity in \mnras

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{Unda-Sanzana}, E. And {Marsh}, T.~R. And {G{\"a}nsicke}, B.~T. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Morales-Rueda}, L. And {Dhillon}, V.~S. And {Thoroughgood}, T.~D. And {Tremou}, E. And {Watson}, C.~A. And {Hinojosa-Go{\~n}i}, R. (2008) GD 552: a cataclysmic variable with a brown dwarf companion? in \mnras

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{Anderson}, D.~R. And {Gillon}, M. And {Hellier}, C. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pepe}, F. And {Queloz}, D. And {Wilson}, D.~M. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Smalley}, B. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Bentley}, S.~J. And {Blecha}, A. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Enoch}, B. And {Hebb}, L. And {Horne}, K. And {Irwin}, J. And {Joshi}, Y.~C. And {Kane}, S.~R. And {Marmier}, M. And {Mayor}, M. And {Parley}, N.~R. And {Pollacco}, D.~L. And {Pont}, F. And {Ryans}, R. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Skillen}, (2008) WASP-5b: a dense, very hot Jupiter transiting a 12th-mag Southern-hemisphere star in \mnras

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{Bell}, C.~P.~M. And {Naylor}, T. And {Mayne}, N.~J. And {Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Littlefair}, S.~P. (2012) Pre-main-sequence isochrones - I. The Pleiades benchmark in \mnras

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{Lagadec}, E. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. And {Matsuura}, M. And {Menzies}, J.~W. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Whitelock}, P.~A. (2008) Dust mass-loss rates from asymptotic giant branch stars in the Fornax and Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxies in \mnras

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{Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Burleigh}, M.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Heber}, U. And {G{\"a}nsicke}, B.~T. And {Geier}, S. And {Kupfer}, T. And {Marsh}, T.~R. And {Nelemans}, G. And {O'Toole}, S.~J. And {{\O}stensen}, R.~H. And {Smalley}, B. And {West}, R.~G. (2011) Discovery of a stripped red giant core in a bright eclipsing binary system in \mnras

 
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