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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

Selection bias in dynamically measured supermassive black hole samples: consequences for pulsar timing arrays
Alberto Sesana, Francesco Shankar, Mariangela Bernardi & Ravi K. Sheth, 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 463(1), L6-L11
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slw139
Type: article
The Chandra Cosmos legacy survey: clustering of x-ray selected AGN at 2.9
V. Allevato, F. Civano, A. Finoguenov, S. Marchesi, F. Shankar, G. Zamorani, G. Hasinger, M. Salvato, T. Miyaji, R. Gilli, N. Cappelluti, M. Brusa, H. Suh, G. Lanzuisi, B. Trakhtenbrot, R. Griffiths, C. Vignali, K. Schawinski & A. Karim, 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 832(1), 1-10
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/832/1/70
Type: article
Interpreting the possible break in the black hole-bulge mass relation
Fabio Fontanot, Pierluigi Monaco & Francesco Shankar, 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(4), 4112-4120
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1930
Type: article
Mass assembly and morphological transformations since z~3 from CANDELS
M. Huertas-Company, M. Bernardi, P.G. Perez-Gonzalez, M.L.N. Ashby, G. Barro, C. Conselice, E. Daddi, A. Dekel, P. Dimauro, S.M. Faber, N.A. Grogin, J.S. Kartaltepe, D.D. Kocevski, A.M. Koekemoer, D.C. Koo, S. Mei & F. Shankar, 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(4), 4495-4516
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1866
Type: article
Setting firmer constraints on the evolution of the most massive, central galaxies from their local abundances and ages
Stewart Buchan & Francesco Shankar, 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(2), 2001-2010
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1771
Type: article