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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

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