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
Morales-Rueda L
(2006)
Subdwarf B binaries in the Edinburgh-Cape survey
in BALTIC ASTRONOMY
Moretti A
(2006)
Swift and XMM- Newton observations of the dark GRB 050326
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Maxted PF
(2006)
Survival of a brown dwarf after engulfment by a red giant star.
in Nature
Pavlenko Y
(2006)
The properties of V838 Monocerotis in 2002 November
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Burleigh M
(2006)
A near-infrared spectroscopic detection of the brown dwarf in the post common envelope binary WD 0137-349
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
Boyer Martha L.
(2006)
Stellar populations and mass loss in M15:: A
Spitzer Space Telescope detection of dust in the intracluster medium
in ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Miller L
(2006)
The variable X-ray spectrum of Markarian 766 I. Principal components analysis
in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Matsuura M
(2006)
Spitzer observations of acetylene bands in carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud Acetylene bands in LMC AGB stars
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zijlstra A
(2006)
A Spitzer mid-infrared spectral survey of mass-losing carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud Mass-losing AGB stars in the LMC
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Harris William E.
(2006)
Structural parameters for globular clusters in NGC 5128.: II.:
Hubble Space Telescope ACS imaging and new clusters
in ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
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 |