The lives of massive stars from birth to supernovae

Lead Research Organisation: Queen's University Belfast
Department Name: Sch of Mathematics and Physics

Abstract

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Publications

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Hendry M (2008) The blue supergiant Sher 25 and its intriguing hourglass nebula in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Hunter D (2009) Extensive optical and near-infrared observations of the nearby, narrow-lined type Ic SN 2007gr: days 5 to 415 in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Hunter I (2009) The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: constraints on stellar evolution from the chemical compositions of rapidly rotating Galactic and Magellanic Cloud B-type stars in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Hunter I (2008) The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: atmospheric parameters and rotational velocity distributions for B-type stars in the Magellanic Clouds in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Hunter I (2008) The VLT FLAMES Survey of Massive Stars: Rotation and Nitrogen Enrichment as the Key to Understanding Massive Star Evolution in The Astrophysical Journal

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Hunter I (2007) The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: surface chemical compositions of B-type stars in the Magellanic Clouds in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Hunter I (2009) The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: atmospheric parameters and rotational velocity distributions for B-type stars in the Magellanic Clouds in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Krisciunas K (2007) The Type Ia Supernova 2004S, a Clone of SN 2001el, and the Optimal Photometric Bands for Extinction Estimation in The Astronomical Journal

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Lennon D (2011) The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula survey in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

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Maguire K (2010) Type II-P supernovae as standardized candles: improvements using near-infrared data in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters

 
Description This was the same grant as PP/C506805/1, so one should refer to information entered there for here here (it was a EURYI award and hence was one award, but for a reason I don't fully understand there were two grants created).
Exploitation Route See above - same as PP/C506805/1
Sectors Education
URL http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~sjs
 
Description As noted above - see details for PP/C506805/1
First Year Of Impact 2005
Sector Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types Cultural,Societal
 
Description See the list in the narrative 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? Yes
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Significant increase in interest in astronomy and science in general from the talks, PRs etc.

Increase in number of work experience requests for physics based opportunities. Quantitative increase in applications to Physics course from students in NI - I don't personally take credit for this, but all my outreach activities contributed to the University's Physics amd astronomy extensive outreach programme which did lead to increase in applications and students studying Physics based courses (quantifiable evidence submitted to REF 2013).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010
URL https://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php/public/outreach/outreach_history_2008_may2014