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C Knigge - Astrophysics at Southampton

Staff

Lead researchers

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

Professor Matthew Middleton

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

Research outputs

Radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of thermally-driven disc winds in X-ray binaries
Nick Higginbottom, Christian Knigge, Knox S. Long, James H. Matthews, Stuart A. Sim & Henrietta A. Hewitt, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(3), 3651–3662
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1599
Type: article
15-GHz radio emission from nearby low-luminosity active galactic nuclei
2018, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 616
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833233
Type: article
A high-density relativistic reflection origin for the soft and hard X-ray excess emission from Mrk 1044
L. Mallick, W.N. Alston, M.L. Parker, A.C. Fabian, C. Pinto, G.C. Dewangan, A. Markowitz, P. Gandhi, A.K. Kembhavi & R. Misra, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(1), 615-634
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1487
Type: article
A catalog of polychromatic bulge-disc decompositions of ~17.600 galaxies in CANDELS
Paola Dimauro, Marc Huertas-Company, Emanuele Daddi, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Mariangela Bernardi, Guillermo Barro, Fernando Buitrago, Fernando Caro, Andrea Cattaneo, Helena Dominguez-Sánchez, Sandra M. Faber, Boris Häußler, Dale D. Kocevski, Anton M. Koekemoer, David C. Koo, Christoph T. Lee, Simona Mei, Berta Margalef-Bentabol, Joel Primack, Aldo Rodriguez-Puebla, Mara Salvato, Francesco Shankar & Diego Tuccillo, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(4), 5410-5426
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1379
Type: article
Characterization of the infrared/X-ray subsecond variability for the black hole transient GX 339-4
F.M. Vincentelli, P. Casella, T.J. Maccarone, P. Uttley, P. Gandhi, T. Belloni, B. De Marco, D.M. Russell, L. Stella & K. O'Brien, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(4), 4524-4533
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty710
Type: article