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.
Organisations
Publications
Smith A
(2006)
The impact of correlated noise on SuperWASP detection rates for transiting extrasolar planets
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Van Loon J
(2006)
The first 8-13 µ m spectra of globular cluster red giants: circumstellar silicate dust grains in 47 Tucanae (NGC 104)
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Jeffries R
(2006)
An XMM-Newton observation of the young open cluster NGC 2547: coronal activity at 30 Myr
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Braito V
(2006)
The iron emission line complex of MCG-5-23-16: the long XMMNewton look
in Astronomische Nachrichten
Pollacco D. L.
(2006)
The WASP project and the SuperWASP cameras
in PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC
Koen C
(2006)
Photometry of the magnetic white dwarf SDSS 121209.31+013627.7
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Watson D.
(2006)
A log
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HI=22.6 damped Lya absorber in a dark gamma-ray burst:: The environment of GRB 050401
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Markowitz A.
(2006)
FeK emission and absorption in the
XMM-epic spectrum of the Seyfert galaxy IC 4329a
in ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Oliveira J
(2006)
Circumstellar discs in the young s Orionis cluster
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Hirschi R.
(2006)
GRB progenitors at low metallicities
in NUOVO CIMENTO DELLA SOCIETA ITALIANA DI FISICA B-BASIC TOPICS IN PHYSICS
| 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 |