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
Collier Cameron A
(2009)
The main-sequence rotation???colour relation in the Coma Berenices open cluster
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Copperwheat C
(2009)
ULTRACAM observations of two accreting white dwarf pulsators
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Copperwheat C
(2010)
Physical properties of IP Pegasi: an eclipsing dwarf nova with an unusually cool white dwarf
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Copperwheat C
(2011)
Radial-velocity measurements of subdwarf B stars Radial-velocity measurements of sdB stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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
Crowther P
(2010)
The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 M? stellar mass limit Very massive stars in R136 and NGC 3603
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Da Rio N
(2014)
Strong biases in estimating the time dependence of mass accretion rates in young stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
David T
(2017)
A Transient Transit Signature Associated with the Young Star RIK-210
in The Astrophysical Journal
De Koter A
(2011)
The O stars in the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Deca J
(2012)
PG 1018-047: the longest period subdwarf B binary PG 1018-047: the longest period sdB binary
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
| 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 |