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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

Prospecting for periods with LSST – low-mass X-ray binaries as a test case
Michael Johnson, Poshak Gandhi, Adriane Chapman, Luc Moreau, Philip Charles, William I. Clarkson & Adam Hill, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(1), 19-30
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3466
Type: article
WISE view of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies: mid-infrared colour and variability
Suvendu Rakshit, Ansu Johnson, C. S. Stalin, Poshak Gandhi & Sebastian Hoenig, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483(2), 2362-2370
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3261
Type: article
New active galactic nuclei science cases with interferometry
Sebastian F. Hönig, Almudena Alonso Herrero, Poshak Gandhi, Makoto Kishimoto, Jörg Uwe Pott, Cristina Ramos Almeida, Jean Surdej & Konrad R.W. Tristram, 2018, Experimental Astronomy, 46(3), 413-419
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-018-9612-3
Type: article
Hubble space telescope emission-line Images of nearby 3CR radio galaxies
2018, Astrophysical Journal, 870(1)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaf002
Type: article
NuSTAR and Keck observations of heavily obscured quasars selected by WISE
Wei Yan, Ryan C. Hickox, Kevin N. Hainline, Daniel Stern, George Lansbury, David M. Alexander, Raphael E. Hviding, Roberto J. Assef, David R. Ballantyne, Michael A. Dipompeo, Lauranne Lanz, Christopher M. Carroll, Michael Koss, Isabella Lamperti, Francesca Civano, Agnese Del Moro, Poshak Gandhi & Adam D. Myers, 2018, Astrophysical Journal, 870(1)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaeed4
Type: article