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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 reverberation signatures of rotating disc winds in active galactic nuclei
S.W. Mangham, C. Knigge, J.H. Matthews, K.S. Long, S.A. Sim & N. Higginbottom, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471(4), 4788-4801
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1863
Type: article
Detection of faint broad emission lines in type 2 AGNs – III. On the MBH-σ⋆ relation of type 2 AGNs
F. Ricci, F. La Franca, A. Marconi, F. Onori, F. Shankar, R. Schneider, E. Sani, S. Bianchi, A. Bongiorno, M. Brusa, F. Fiore, R. Maiolino & C. Vignali, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471(1), L41-L46
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slx103
Type: article
Selection bias in dynamically measured supermassive black hole samples: Scaling relations and correlations between residuals in semi-analytic galaxy formation models
Enrico Barausse, F Shankar & Mariangela Bernardi, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(4), 4782-4791
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx799
Type: article
AGN wind scaling relations and the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies
F. Fiore, C. Feruglio, F. Shankar, M. Bischetti, A. Bongiorno, M. Brusa, S. Carniani, C. Cicone, F. Duras, A. Lamastra, V. Mainieri, A. Marconi, N. Menci, R. Maiolino, E. Piconcelli, G. Vietri & L. Zappacosta, 2017, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 601, 1-21
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629478
Type: article
Revisiting the bulge-halo conspiracy I
Francesco Shankar, 2017, The Astrophysical Journal
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa66ce
Type: article