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Astrophysics Group Success in Winning Facility Time at International ObservatoriesMembers of the Keele Astrophysics Group, Research Institute for the Environment, Physical Sciences and Applied Mathematics, have again been successful in winning facility time on international astronomical observatories. Dr Joana Oliveira and Dr Jacco van Loon were allocated nine hours on the 12m APEX submillimetre telescope at the Atacama Large Millimetre Array site at 5100m altitude on the Chilean altiplano, to search for cold dust in the disks around young stars from which planets form. Dr Pierre Maxted was allocated three nights on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope on the Canarian island of La Palma, to detect massive, unseen companions to faint stars. Dr Rob Jeffries was allocated two nights on the same telescope to characterize solar-type stars at an age of 25 million years - a time when our inner Solar System is thought to have formed. Jacco van Loon was allocated six hours on the 4m Anglo-Australian Telescope in Australia, to use hundreds of stars in the globular cluster omega Centauri as torches to map the distribution of diffuse gas in between them and us. |
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