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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

A catalog of visual-like morphologies in the 5 CANDELS fields using deep-learning
Marc Huertas-Company, R Gravet, G. Cabrera-Vives, Pablo G. Pérez-González, J.S. Kartaltepe, G. Barro, M. Bernardi, S. Mei, F Shankar, P. Dimauro, E. F. Bell, D. Kocevski, D. C. Koo, S. M. Faber & D. H. Mcintosh, 2015, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 221(1)
DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/221/1/8
Type: article
The LOFAR Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS)
2015, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 582(A213), 1-22
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201425210
Type: article
Black hole and galaxy coevolution from continuity equation and abundance matching
R. Aversa, A. Lapi, G. de Zotti, F. Shankar & L. Danese, 2015, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 810(74), 1-40
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/810/1/74
Type: article
The impact of accretion disc winds on the optical spectra of cataclysmic variables
J.H. Matthews, C. Knigge, K.S. Long, S.A. Sim & N. Higginbottom, 2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450(3), 3331-3344
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv867
Type: article
Avoiding progenitor bias
Francesco Shankar, Stewart Buchan, Alessandro Rettura, Vincent R. Bouillot, Jorge Moreno, Rossella Licitra, Mariangela Bernardi, Marc Hertas-Company, Simona Mei, Begona Ascaso, Ravi Sheth, Lauriane Delaye & Anand Raichoor, 2015, The Astrophysical Journal, 802(2), 1-9
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/802/2/73
Type: article