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C Knigge - Astrophysics at Southampton

Staff

Lead researcher

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

Other researchers

Professor Mark Sullivan

Associate Dean-Research

Research interests

  • Supernovae
  • Time domain astronomy
  • Cosmology
Connect with Mark

Email: M.Sullivan@soton.ac.uk

Professor Poshak Gandhi

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • Data-intensive Astronomy
  • Social Impact of Astronomy
  • Time-domain astrophysics, Black Holes, Lunar astronomy
Connect with Poshak

Email: Poshak.Gandhi@soton.ac.uk

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

Dr Matthew Middleton

Associate Professor
Connect with Matthew

Email: M.J.Middleton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Sebastian Hoenig

Head of School

Research interests

  • Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Dust
  • Radiative transfer
Connect with Sebastian

Email: S.Hoenig@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Multiwavelength Accretion and Astronomical Transients

Our group carries out frontline research on observational astrophyics. We study black holes across the electromagnetic spectrum, the formation and growth.

Research outputs

Swift monitoring observations of Mrk 231
Lilan Yang, Xinyu Dai, Youjun Lu, Zong Hong Zhu1 & Francesco Shankar, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 480(4), 5504-5510
DOI: 10.1093/MNRAS/STY2253
Type: article
A long hard-x-ray look at the dual active galactic nuclei of M51 with NuSTAR
M. Brightman, M. Baloković, M. Koss, D. M. Alexander, A. Annuar, H. Earnshaw, P. Gandhi, F. A. Harrison, A. E. Hornschemeier, B. Lehmer, M. C. Powell, A. Ptak, B. Rangelov, T. P. Roberts, D. Stern, D.J. Walton & A. Zezas, 2018, Astrophysical Journal, 867(2)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae1ae
Type: article
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
Quantifying feedback from narrow line region outflows in nearby active galaxies. II. Spatially resolved mass outflow rates for the QSO2 Markarian 34
M. Revalski, D. Dashtamirova, D. M. Crenshaw, S. B. Kraemer, T. C. Fischer, H. R. Schmitt, C. L. Gnilka, J. Schmidt, M. Elvis, G. Fabbiano, T. Storchi-Bergmann, W. P. Maksym & P. Gandhi, 2018, Astrophysical Journal, 867(2)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae3e6
Type: article
Assessing quasi-periodicities in Jovian x-ray emissions
C. M. Jackman, C. Knigge, D. Altamirano, R. Gladstone, W. Dunn, R. Elsner, R. Kraft, G. Branduardi-Raymont & P. Ford, 2018, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123(11), 9204-9221
DOI: 10.1029/2018JA025490
Type: article