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Astrophysics at Southampton (Physics A - Consolidated Grant)

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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 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

Research outputs

Stratified disc wind models for the AGN broad-line region: ultraviolet, optical, and X-ray properties
James H. Matthews, Christian Knigge, Nick Higginbottom, Knox S. Long, Stuart A. Sim, Samuel W. Mangham, Edward J. Parkinson & Henrietta A. Hewitt, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(4), 5540-5560
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa136
Type: article
Thermal and radiation driving can produce observable disc winds in hard-state X-ray binaries
Nick Higginbottom, Christian Knigge, Stuart A. Sim, Knox S. Long, James H. Matthews, Henrietta A. Hewitt, Edward J. Parkinson & Sam W. Mangham, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(4), 5271-5279
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa209
Type: article
X-ray reverberation lags from the 1.5 Seyfert galaxy NGC 5273
2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(1), 1135-1141
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3511
Type: article
The eclipsing accreting white dwarf Z Chameleontis as seen with TESS
J.M.C. Court, S. Scaringi, S. Rappaport, Z. Zhan, C. Littlefield, N. Castro Segura, C. Knigge, T. Maccarone, M. Kennedy, P. Szkody & P. Garnavich, 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488(3), 4149-4160
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2015
Type: article
Unveiling the 100 pc scale nuclear radio structure of NGC6217 with e-MERLIN and the VLA
2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(4), 4962-4979
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1135
Type: article