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C Knigge - Astrophysics at Southampton

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Christian Knigge

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • accretion phenomena and associated outflows
  • cataclysmic variables
  • close binaries
Connect with Christian

Email: C.Knigge@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Mark Sullivan

Associate Dean-Research

Research interests

  • Supernovae
  • Time domain astronomy
  • Cosmology
Connect with Mark

Email: M.Sullivan@soton.ac.uk

Professor Poshak Gandhi

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • Data-intensive Astronomy
  • Social Impact of Astronomy
  • Time-domain astrophysics, Black Holes, Lunar astronomy
Connect with Poshak

Email: Poshak.Gandhi@soton.ac.uk

Professor Francesco Shankar

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • Super-massive Black Hole Demography and Evolution
  • Galaxy Evolution: Spheroids and Bulges, Environment, High-redshift galaxies
  • Radio and Broad Absorption Line Active Galactic Nuclei
Connect with Francesco

Email: F.Shankar@soton.ac.uk

Dr Matthew Middleton

Associate Professor
Connect with Matthew

Email: M.J.Middleton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Sebastian Hoenig

Head of School

Research interests

  • Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Dust
  • Radiative transfer
Connect with Sebastian

Email: S.Hoenig@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Multiwavelength Accretion and Astronomical Transients

Our group carries out frontline research on observational astrophyics. We study black holes across the electromagnetic spectrum, the formation and growth.

Research outputs

PISCOLA: a data-driven transient light-curve fitter
Tomás E. Müller-Bravo, Mark Sullivan, Mathew Smith, Chris Frohmaier, Claudia P. Gutiérrez, Philip Wiseman & Zoe Zontou, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3065
Type: article
Optimizing a magnitude-limited spectroscopic training sample for photometric classification of supernovae
Mark Sullivan, Jonathan E. Carrick, Isobel M. Hook, Elizabeth Swann, Kyle Boone, C. Frohmaier & A.G. Kim, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(1), 1-18
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2343
Type: article
Rates and delay times of Type Ia supernovae in the Dark Energy Survey
P. Wiseman, M. Sullivan, M. Smith, C. Frohmaier, M. Vincenzi, O. Graur, B. Popovic, P. Armstrong, D. Brout, T. M. Davis, L. Galbany, S. R. Hinton, L. Kelsey, R. Kessler, C. Lidman, A. Möller, R. C. Nichol, B. Rose, D. Scolnic, M. Toy, Z. Zontou, J. Asorey, D. Carollo, K. Glazebrook, G. F. Lewis, B. E. Tucker, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena, S. Allam, F. Andrade-Oliveira, J. Annis, D. Bacon, E. Bertin, D. Brooks, E. Buckley-Geer, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, M. Costanzi, L. N. da Costa, M. E. S. Pereira, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, S. Everett, I. Ferrero, B. Flaugher, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, T. Giannantonio, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, B. Hoyle, D. J. James, E. Krause, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, M. A. G. Maia, J. L. Marshall, P. Martini, F. Menanteau, R. Miquel, R. Morgan, R. L. C. Ogando, A. Palmese, F. Paz-Chinchón, D. Petravick, A. Pieres, A. A. Plazas Malagón, A. K. Romer, E. Sanchez, V. Scarpine, M. Schubnell, S. Serrano, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, M. Soares-Santos, E. Suchyta, M. E. C. Swanson, G. Tarle, D. Thomas, C. To, T. N. Varga, A. R. Walker & DES Collaboration, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 506(3), 3330–3348
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1943
Type: article
Understanding the extreme luminosity of DES14X2fna
M. Grayling, C. P. Gutiérrez, M. Sullivan, P. Wiseman, M. Vincenzi, S. González-Gaitán, B. E. Tucker, L. Galbany, L. Kelsey, C. Lidman, E. Swann, C. Frohmaier, D. Carollo, K. Glazebrook, A. Möller, S. R. Hinton, S. A. Uddin, M. Aguena, S. Avila, E. Bertin, S. Bhargava, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, M. Costanzi, L. N. da Costa, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, S. Everett, I. Ferrero, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, B. Hoyle, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, M. Lima, N. MacCrann, P. Martini, R. Miquel, A. Palmese, F. Paz-Chinchón & A. A. Plazas, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505(3), 3950-3967
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1478
Type: article
The Dark Energy Survey supernova programme: modelling selection efficiency and observed core-collapse supernova contamination
M. Vincenzi, M. Sullivan, O. Graur, D. Brout, C. Frohmaier, L. Galbany, C. P. Gutiérrez, S. R. Hinton, L. Kelsey, R. Kessler, E. Kovacs, S. Kuhlmann, J. Lasker, C. Lidman, A. Möller, R. C. Nichol, M. Sako, D. Scolnic, E. Swann, P. Wiseman, J. Asorey, B. E. Tucker, M. Aguena, S. Allam, S. Avila, E. Bertin, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, F. J. Castander, A. Choi, M. Costanzi, L. N. da Costa, M. E. S. Pereira, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, S. Everett, I. Ferrero, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, D. W. Gerdes, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, G. Gutierrez & D. L. Hollowood, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505(2), 2819-2839
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1353
Type: article