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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

SN 2017ivv: two years of evolution of a transitional Type II supernova
C. P. Gutiérrez, A. Pastorello, A. Jerkstrand, L. Galbany, M. Sullivan, S. Taubenberger, H. Kuncarayakti, S. González-Gaitán, P. Wiseman, C. Inserra, M. Fraser, S. Smartt, T. E. Müller-Bravo, I. Arcavi, S. Benetti, D. Bersier, S. Bose, K. A. Bostroem, J. Burke, M. Della Valle, Subo Dong, A. Gal-Yam, M. Gromadzki, D. Hiramatsu, T. W.-S. Holoien, G. Hosseinzadeh, E. Kankare, C. S. Kochanek, C. McCully, M. Nicholl, G. Pignata, B. Shappee, K. Taggart, L. Tomasella & S. Valenti, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499(1), 974-992
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2763
Type: article
Soft X-ray emission lines in the X-ray binary Swift J1858.6-0814 observed with XMM-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometer: disc atmosphere or wind?
D. J. K. Buisson, D. Altamirano, M. Díaz Trigo, M. Mendez, M. Armas Padilla, N. Castro Segura, N. D. Degenaar, J. van den Eijnden, F. A. Fogantini, P. Gandhi, C. Knigge, T. Muñoz-Darias, M. Özbey Arabacı & F. M. Vincentelli, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 498(1), 68-76
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2258
Type: article
The host galaxies of 106 rapidly evolving transients discovered by the Dark Energy Survey
P. Wiseman, M. Pursiainen, M. Childress, E. Swann, L. Galbany, C. Lidman, C. P. Gutiérrez, A. Möller, C. Frohmaier, R. J. Foley, S. R. Hinton, L. Kelsey, R. Kessler, M. Sako, D. Scolnic, M. Sullivan, M. Vincenzi, M. Aguena, S. Allam, J. Annis, E. Bertin, S. Bhargava, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, D. Carollo, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, M. Costanzi, L. N. da Costa, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, S. Everett, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, K. Glazebrook, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, M. Lima, M. A. G. Maia, P. Martini, F. Menanteau & R. Miquel, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498(2), 2575-2593
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2474
Type: article
The destruction and recreation of the X-ray corona in a changing-look active galactic nucleus
Diego Altamirano, 2020, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 898(1)
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab91a1
Type: article
DES16C3cje: A low-luminosity, long-lived supernova
C. P. Gutiérrez, M. Sullivan, L. Martinez, M. C. Bersten, C. Inserra, A. Pastorello, L. Galbany, P. Nugent, C. R. Angus, C. Barbarino, D. Carollo, M. Della Valle, R. J. Foley, M. Fraser, C. Frohmaier, S. González-Gaitán, M. Gromadzki, E. Kankare, R. Kokotanekova, J. Kollmeier, M. R. Magee, A. Möller, N. Morrell, M. Nicholl, M. Pursiainen, J. Sollerman, N. E. Sommer, E. Swann, B. E. Tucker, P. Wiseman, M. Aguena, S. Allam, S. Avila, E. Bertin, E. Buckley-Geer, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, M. Costanzi, L. N. da Costa, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, T. F. Eifler, B. Flaugher, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman & J. García-Bellido, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 496(1), 95-110
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1452
Type: article