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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

LeMMINGs. I. The eMERLIN legacy survey of nearby galaxies. 1.5-GHz parsec-scale radio structures and cores
R.D. Baldi, D.R.A. Williams, I.M. McHardy, R.J. Beswick, M.K. Argo, B.T. Dullo, J.H. Knapen, E. Brinks, T.W.B. Muxlow, S. Aalto, A. Alberdi, G.J. Bendo, S. Corbel, R. Evans, D.M. Fenech, D.A. Green, H.-R. Klöckner, E. Körding, P. Kharb, T.J. Maccarone, I. Martí-Vidal, C.G. Mundell, F. Panessa, A.B. Peck, M.A. Pérez-Torres, D.J. Saikia, P. Saikia, F. Shankar, R.E. Spencer, I.R. Stevens, P. Uttley & J. Westcott, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(3), 3478-3522
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty342
Type: article
Mid-UV studies of the transitional millisecond pulsars XSS J12270-4859 and PSR J1023+0038 during their radio pulsar states
L.E. Rivera Sandoval, J.V. Hernandez Santisteban, N. Degenaar, R. Wijnands, C. Knigge, J.M. Miller, M. Reynolds, D. Altamirano, M. van den Berg & A. Hill, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(1), 1086-1099
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty291
Type: article
Accretion disk reverberation with Hubble Space Telescope observations of NGC 4593
2018, Astrophysical Journal, 857(1)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aab4f7
Type: article
Revisiting the bulge-halo conspiracy - II. Towards explaining its puzzling dependence on redshift
F. Shankar, A. Sonnenfeld, P. Grylls, L. Zanisi, C. Nipoti, K.-H. Chae, M. Bernardi, C.E. Petrillo, M. Huertas-Company, G.A. Mamon & S. Buchan, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(3), 2878-2890
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx3086
Type: article
Stellar mass functions and implications for a variable IMF
M. Bernardi, R.K. Sheth, J.-L. Fischer, A. Meert, K.-H. Chae, H. Dominguez-Sanchez, M. Huertas-Company, F. Shankar & V. Vikram, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(1), 757-771
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx3171
Type: article