View all research projects
Research project

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

Local AGN Survey (LASr): I. Galaxy sample, infrared colour selection and predictions for AGN within 100 Mpc
D. Asmus, C.L. Greenwell, P. Gandhi, P.G. Boorman, J. Aird, D.M. Alexander, R.J. Assef, R.D. Baldi, R.I. Davies, S.F. Hönig, C. Ricci, D.J. Rosario, M. Salvato, F. Shankar & D. Stern, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(2), 1784–1816
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa766
Type: article
Accretion disc winds in tidal disruption events: ultraviolet spectral lines as orientation indicators
Edward J. Parkinson, Christian Knigge, Knox S. Long, James H. Matthews, Nick Higginbottom, Stuart A. Sim & Henrietta A. Hewitt, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(4), 4914-4929
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1060
Type: article
The soft state of the black hole transient source MAXI J1820+070: emission from the edge of the plunge region?
A C Fabian, D J Buisson, P Kosec, C S Reynolds, D R Wilkins, J A Tomsick, D J Walton, P Gandhi, Z Arzoumanian, E M Cackett, S Dyda, J A Garcia, K C Gendreau, B W Grefenstette, J Homan, E Kara, R M Ludlam, J M Miller & J F Steiner, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493(4), 5389-5396
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa564
Type: article
Probing the circumnuclear absorbing medium of the buried AGN in NGC 1068 through NuSTAR observations
A. Zaino, S. Bianchi, A. Marinucci, G. Matt, F.E. Bauer, W.N. Brandt, Poshak Gandhi, M. Guainazzi, K. Iwasawa, S. Puccetti, C. Ricci & D.J. Walton, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society(3), 3872-3884
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa107
Type: article
Stratified disc wind models for the AGN broad-line region: ultraviolet, optical, and X-ray properties
James H. Matthews, Christian Knigge, Nick Higginbottom, Knox S. Long, Stuart A. Sim, Samuel W. Mangham, Edward J. Parkinson & Henrietta A. Hewitt, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(4), 5540-5560
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa136
Type: article