Real Places and Surface Bundles

Our results complement D. Calegari's result that there are no hyperbolic once-punctured torus bundles over $S^1$ with trace field having real place. We exhibit several infinite families of pairs $(-\chi, p)$ such that there exist hyperbolic surface bundles with over $S^1$ with fiber having $p$ punctures and Euler characteristic $\chi$ with trace field of having a real place. This supports our conjecture that there exist such examples for each pair $(-\chi, p)$ with finitely many known exceptions.