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C Knigge - Astrophysics at Southampton

Staff

Lead researchers

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

Professor Matthew Middleton

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

Research outputs

NGC 1275: an outlier of the black hole-host scaling relations
Eleonora Sani, Federica Ricci, Fabio Le Franca, Stefano Bianchi, Angela Bongiorno, Marcella Brusa, Alessandro Marconi, Francesca Onori, F Shankar & Cristian Vignali, 2018, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
DOI: 10.3389/fspas.2018.00002
Type: article
Determination of the size of the dust torus in H0507+164 through optical and infrared monitoring
Amit Kumar Mandal, Suvendu Rakshit, Kshama S. Kurian, C. S. Stalin, Blesson Mathew, Sebastian Hoenig, Poshak Gandhi, Ram Sagar & M. B. Pandge, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty200
Type: article