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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

Radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of thermally-driven disc winds in X-ray binaries
Nick Higginbottom, Christian Knigge, Knox S. Long, James H. Matthews, Stuart A. Sim & Henrietta A. Hewitt, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(3), 3651–3662
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1599
Type: article
15-GHz radio emission from nearby low-luminosity active galactic nuclei
2018, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 616
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833233
Type: article
A high-density relativistic reflection origin for the soft and hard X-ray excess emission from Mrk 1044
L. Mallick, W.N. Alston, M.L. Parker, A.C. Fabian, C. Pinto, G.C. Dewangan, A. Markowitz, P. Gandhi, A.K. Kembhavi & R. Misra, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(1), 615-634
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1487
Type: article
A catalog of polychromatic bulge-disc decompositions of ~17.600 galaxies in CANDELS
Paola Dimauro, Marc Huertas-Company, Emanuele Daddi, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Mariangela Bernardi, Guillermo Barro, Fernando Buitrago, Fernando Caro, Andrea Cattaneo, Helena Dominguez-Sánchez, Sandra M. Faber, Boris Häußler, Dale D. Kocevski, Anton M. Koekemoer, David C. Koo, Christoph T. Lee, Simona Mei, Berta Margalef-Bentabol, Joel Primack, Aldo Rodriguez-Puebla, Mara Salvato, Francesco Shankar & Diego Tuccillo, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(4), 5410-5426
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1379
Type: article
Characterization of the infrared/X-ray subsecond variability for the black hole transient GX 339-4
F.M. Vincentelli, P. Casella, T.J. Maccarone, P. Uttley, P. Gandhi, T. Belloni, B. De Marco, D.M. Russell, L. Stella & K. O'Brien, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(4), 4524-4533
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty710
Type: article