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Astrophysics at Southampton (Physics A - Consolidated Grant)

Staff

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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

LOFAR reveals the giant
2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(4), 5049-5067
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2869
Type: article
Stellar mass functions and implications for a variable IMF
M. Bernardi, R.K. Sheth, J.-L. Fischer, A. Meert, K.-H. Chae, H. Dominguez-Sanchez, M. Huertas-Company, F. Shankar & V. Vikram, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(1), 757-771
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx3171
Type: article
NGC 1275: an outlier of the black hole-host scaling relations
Eleonora Sani, Federica Ricci, Fabio Le Franca, Stefano Bianchi, Angela Bongiorno, Marcella Brusa, Alessandro Marconi, Francesca Onori, F Shankar & Cristian Vignali, 2018, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
DOI: 10.3389/fspas.2018.00002
Type: article
QSFit: Automatic analysis of optical AGN spectra
G. Calderone, L. Nicastro, G. Ghisellini, M. Dotti, T. Sbarrato, F. Shankar & M. Colpi, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472(4), 4051-4080
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2239
Type: article
Radio jets in NGC 4151
2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472(4), 3842-3853
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2205
Type: article