View all research projects
Research project

Astrophysics at Southampton (Physics A - Consolidated Grant)

Staff

Other researchers

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

AstroSat and Chandra view of the high soft state of 4U 1630-47 (4U 1630-472)
Mayukh Pahari, Sudip Bhattacharyya, A. R. Rao, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Santosh V. Vadawale, Gulab C. Dewangan, I. M. McHardy, Poshak Gandhi, Stéphane Corbel, Norbert S. Schulz & Diego Altamirano, 2018, Astrophysical Journal, 867(2)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae53b
Type: article
X-ray/UV/optical variability of NGC 4593 with Swift: reprocessing of X-rays by an extended reprocessor
2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 480(3), 2881-2897
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1983
Type: article
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
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