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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

M*/L gradients driven by IMF variation
M. Bernardi, R.K. Sheth, H. Dominguez-Sanchez, J.-L. Fischer, K.-H. Chae, M. Huertas-Company & F. Shankar, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(2), 2560–2571
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty781
Type: article
Evidence for hot clumpy accretion flow in the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038
T. Shahbaz, Y. Dallilar, A. Garner, S. Eikenberry, A. Veledina & P. Gandhi, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(1), 566-577
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty562
Type: article
The absence of a thin disc in M81
2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(4), 5698-5703
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty509
Type: article
Jets, arcs and shocks
2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(3), 2876–2889
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty390
Type: article
HST spectrum and timing of the ultracompact X-ray binary candidate 47 Tuc X9
V. Tudor, J. C.A. Miller-Jones, C. Knigge, T. J. Maccarone, T. M. Tauris, A. Bahramian, L. Chomiuk, C. O. Heinke, G. R. Sivakoff, J. Strader, R. M. Plotkin, R. Soria, M. D. Albrow, G. E. Anderson, M. van den Berg, F. Bernardini, S. Bogdanov, C. T. Britt, D.M. Russell & D. R. Zurek, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(2), 1889-1908
DOI: 10.1093/MNRAS/STY284
Type: article