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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Campo C (2011) ON THE ORBIT OF EXOPLANET WASP-12b in The Astrophysical Journal

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Cioni M (2011) The VMC survey I. Strategy and first data in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Littlefair S (2011) Accretion-induced luminosity spreads in young clusters: evidence from stellar rotation Accretion-induced luminosity spreads in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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{Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Queloz}, D. And {Hellier}, C. And {Gillon}, M. And {Smalley}, B. And {Hebb}, L. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Anderson}, D. And {Boisse}, I. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lister}, T. And {Lovis}, C. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {S{\'e}gransan}, D. And {Simpson}, E. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R. (2011) WASP-23b: a transiting hot Jupiter around a K dwarf and its Rossiter-McLaughlin effect in \aap

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{Simpson}, E.~K. And {Faedi}, F. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Hebb}, L. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Todd}, I. And {Butters}, O.~W. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {McCormac}, J. And {Miller}, G.~R.~M. And {Santerne}, A. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Skillen}, I. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Bento}, J. And {Boisse}, I. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Holmes}, S. And {Horne}, K. (2011) WASP-37b: A 1.8 M $_{J}$ Exoplanet Transiting a Metal-poor Star in \aj

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{Laki{\'c}evi{\'c}}, M. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Patat}, F. And {Staveley-Smith}, L. And {Zanardo}, G. (2011) The remnant of SN 1987A revealed at (sub-)mm wavelengths in \aap

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Tombesi F (2011) X-ray evidence for the accretion disc-outflow connection in 3C 111 Accretion disc-outflow connection in 3C 111 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

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{Tombesi}, F. And {Sambruna}, R.~M. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Reynolds}, C.~S. And {Braito}, V. (2011) X-ray evidence for the accretion disc-outflow connection in 3C 111 in \mnras

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Alsubai K (2011) Qatar-1b: a hot Jupiter orbiting a metal-rich K dwarf star Qatar-1b: a planet transiting a K dwarf star in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Avelino P (2011) Unified paradigm for interface dynamics in Physical Review E

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Nymeyer S (2011) SPITZER SECONDARY ECLIPSES OF WASP-18b in The Astrophysical Journal

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{Jeffries}, R.~D. And {Jackson}, R.~J. And {Briggs}, K.~R. And {Evans}, P.~A. And {Pye}, J.~P. (2011) Investigating coronal saturation and supersaturation in fast-rotating M-dwarf stars in \mnras

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{Enoch}, B. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Faedi}, F. And {Gillon}, M. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Queloz}, D. And {Santerne}, A. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Bento}, J. And {Butters}, O. And {Fossati}, L. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Holmes}, S. And {Jehin}, E. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {McCormac}, J. An (2011) WASP-35b, WASP-48b, and HAT-P-30b/WASP-51b: Two New Planets and an Independent Discovery of a Hat Planet in \aj

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Balona L (2011) Kepler observations of Am stars? Kepler observations of Am stars in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Copperwheat C (2011) SDSS J0926+3624: the shortest period eclipsing binary star The shortest period eclipsing binary star in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Simpson E (2011) WASP-37b: A 1.8 M J EXOPLANET TRANSITING A METAL-POOR STAR in The Astronomical Journal

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{Ballo}, L. And {Braito}, V. And {Reeves}, J.~N. And {Sambruna}, R.~M. And {Tombesi}, F. (2011) The high-energy view of the broad-line radio galaxy 3C 111 in \mnras

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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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{Faedi}, F. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Brown}, D.~J.~A. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Boisse}, I. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Lendl}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Bento}, J. And {Bouchy}, F. And {Butters}, O.~W. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Miller}, G.~R.~M. And {Moulds}, V. And {Moutou}, C. And {Norton}, A.~J. And {Queloz}, D. And {Santerne (2011) WASP-39b: a highly inflated Saturn-mass planet orbiting a late G-type star in \aap

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Batista V (2011) MOA-2009-BLG-387Lb: a massive planet orbiting an M dwarf in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Lakicevic M (2011) The remnant of SN 1987A revealed at (sub-)mm wavelengths in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Nebot Gómez-Morán A (2011) Post common envelope binaries from SDSS XII. The orbital period distribution??? in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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{Smalley}, B. And {Kurtz}, D.~W. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Fossati}, L. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Butters}, O.~W. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Christian}, D.~J. And {Enoch}, B. And {Faedi}, F. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Holmes}, S. And {Horne}, K. And {Kane}, S.~R. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Norton}, A.~J. And {Parley}, N. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Simpson}, E.~K. And {Skillen}, I. And {Southworth}, J. And {Street}, R.~A. And {West} (2011) SuperWASP observations of pulsating Am stars in \aap

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Thielemann F (2011) Astronomy with Radioactivities

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{Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Faedi}, F. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {McCormac}, J. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Simpson}, E.~K. And {Smalley}, B. And {Street}, R.~A. And {Todd}, I. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Boisse}, I. And {Bouchy}, F. And {H{\'e}brard}, G. And {Moutou}, C. And {Pepe}, F. And {Queloz}, D. And {Santerne}, A. And {Segransan}, D. And {Udry}, S. And {Bento}, J. And {Butters}, O.~W. And {Enoch}, B. And {Haswell}, C.~A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Keenan}, F.~P. And {Mill (2011) WASP-38b: a transiting exoplanet in an eccentric, 6.87d period orbit in \aap

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Maxted P (2011) WASP-41b: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Planet Orbiting a Magnetically Active G8V Star in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

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{Smalley}, B. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Collier Cameron}, A. And {Hellier}, C. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Queloz}, D. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {West}, R.~G. And {Bentley}, S.~J. And {Enoch}, B. And {Gillon}, M. And {Lister}, T.~A. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Segransan}, D. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Southworth}, J. And {Udry}, S. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. And {Wood}, P.~L. And {Bento}, J. (2011) WASP-34b: a near-grazing transiting sub-Jupiter-mass exoplanet in a hierarchical triple system in \aap

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{Copperwheat}, C.~M. And {Morales-Rueda}, L. And {Marsh}, T.~R. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Heber}, U. (2011) Radial-velocity measurements of subdwarf B stars in \mnras

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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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{McDonald}, I. And {Boyer}, M.~L. And {van Loon}, J.~T. And {Zijlstra}, A.~A. And {Hora}, J.~L. And {Babler}, B. And {Block}, M. And {Gordon}, K. And {Meade}, M. And {Meixner}, M. And {Misselt}, K. And {Robitaille}, T. And {Sewi{\l}o}, M. And {Shiao}, B. And {Whitney}, B. (2011) Fundamental Parameters, Integrated Red Giant Branch Mass Loss, and Dust Production in the Galactic Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae in \apjs

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Smith R (2011) Debris discs in the 27 Myr old open cluster IC 4665 Debris discs in IC4665 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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{Gillon}, M. And {Doyle}, A.~P. And {Lendl}, M. And {Maxted}, P.~F.~L. And {Triaud}, A.~H.~M.~J. And {Anderson}, D.~R. And {Barros}, S.~C.~C. And {Bento}, J. And {Collier-Cameron}, A. And {Enoch}, B. And {Faedi}, F. And {Hellier}, C. And {Jehin}, E. And {Magain}, P. And {Montalb{\'a}n}, J. And {Pepe}, F. And {Pollacco}, D. And {Queloz}, D. And {Smalley}, B. And {Segransan}, D. And {Smith}, A.~M.~S. And {Southworth}, J. And {Udry}, S. And {West}, R.~G. And {Wheatley}, P.~J. (2011) WASP-50 b: a hot Jupiter transiting a moderately active solar-type star 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