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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 White Paper on keV sterile neutrino Dark Matter
R. Adhikari, M. Agostini, N. Anh Ky, T. Araki, M. Archidiacono, M. Bahr, J. Baur, J. Behrens, F. Bezrukov, P. S. Bhupal Dev, D. Borah, A. Boyarsky, A. de Gouvea, C. A. de S. Pires, H. J. de Vega, A. G. Dias, P. Di Bari, Z. Djurcic, K. Dolde, H. Dorrer, M. Durero, O. Dragoun, M. Drewes, G. Drexlin, Ch E. Düllmann, K. Eberhardt, S. Eliseev, C. Enss, A. Faessler, P. Filianin, V. Fischer, A. Fleischmann, J. A. Formaggio, J. Franse, F. M. Fraenkle, C. S. Frenk, G. Fuller, L. Gastaldo, A. Garzilli, C. Giunti, F. Glück, M. C. Goodman, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, D. Gorbunov, J. Hamann, V. Hannen, S. Hannestad, S. H. Hansen, A. Merle & F. Shankar, 2017, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2017(1)
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/01/025
Type: article
Cosmology with AGN dust time lags–simulating the new VEILS survey
S.F. Hoenig, D. Watson, M. Kishimoto, P. Gandhi, M. Goad, K. Horne, F. Shankar, M. Banerji, B. Boulderstone, M. Jarvis, M. Smith & M. Sullivan, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(2), 1693-1703
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2484
Type: article
Selection bias in dynamically-measured super-massive black hole samples: dynamical masses and dependence on Sérsic index
Francesco Shankar, Mariangela Bernardi & Ravi K. Sheth, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 466, 4029-4039
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw3368
Type: article
Dwarf nova-type cataclysmic variable stars are significant radio emitters
Deanne L. Coppejans, Elmar G. Körding, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Michael P. Rupen, Gregory R. Sivakoff, Christian Knigge, Paul J. Groot, Patrick A. Woudt, Elizabeth O. Waagen & Matthew Templeton, 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463(2), 2229-2241
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2133
Type: article
Host galaxies of luminous z? 0.6 quasars: Major mergers are not prevalent at the highest AGN luminosities
Francesco Shankar, 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1-20
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw3037
Type: article