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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

The origin of UV-optical variability in AGN and test of disc models: XMM-Newton and ground-based observations of NGC 4395
I.M. Mchardy, S.D. Connolly, B.M. Peterson, A. Bieryla, H. Chand, M.S. Elvis, D. Emmanoulopoulos, E. Falco, P. Gandhi, S. Kaspi, D. Latham, P. Lira, C. McCully, H. Netzer & M. Uemura, 2016, Astronomische Nachrichten, 337(4-5), 500-506
DOI: 10.1002/asna.201612337
Type: article
LOFAR facet calibration
2016, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 223(2), 1-16
DOI: 10.3847/0067-0049/223/1/2
Type: article
LOFAR, VLA, and Chandra observations of the toothbrush galaxy cluster
2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 818(204), 1-19
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/818/2/204
Type: article
Constraining AGN triggering mechanisms through the clustering analysis of active black holes
M. Gatti, F. Shankar, V. Boillot, N. Menci, A. Lamastra, M. Hirschmann & F. Fiore, 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(1), 1073-1092
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2754
Type: article
A matter of measurement: rotation velocities and the velocity function of dwarf galaxies
Chris B. Brook & Francesco Shankar, 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(4), 3841-3847
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2550
Type: article