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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

M*/L gradients driven by IMF variation
M. Bernardi, R.K. Sheth, H. Dominguez-Sanchez, J.-L. Fischer, K.-H. Chae, M. Huertas-Company & F. Shankar, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(2), 2560–2571
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty781
Type: article
Evidence for hot clumpy accretion flow in the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038
T. Shahbaz, Y. Dallilar, A. Garner, S. Eikenberry, A. Veledina & P. Gandhi, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(1), 566-577
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty562
Type: article
The absence of a thin disc in M81
2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(4), 5698-5703
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty509
Type: article
Jets, arcs and shocks
2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(3), 2876–2889
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty390
Type: article
HST spectrum and timing of the ultracompact X-ray binary candidate 47 Tuc X9
V. Tudor, J. C.A. Miller-Jones, C. Knigge, T. J. Maccarone, T. M. Tauris, A. Bahramian, L. Chomiuk, C. O. Heinke, G. R. Sivakoff, J. Strader, R. M. Plotkin, R. Soria, M. D. Albrow, G. E. Anderson, M. van den Berg, F. Bernardini, S. Bogdanov, C. T. Britt, D.M. Russell & D. R. Zurek, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(2), 1889-1908
DOI: 10.1093/MNRAS/STY284
Type: article