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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

First cosmology results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Constraints on cosmological parameters
T.M.C. Abbott, S. Allam, P. Andersen, Mark Sullivan, Michael Childress, Mathew Smith, Charlotte Angus, Philip Wiseman & Miika, Aleksi Pursiainen, 2019, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 872(2)
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab04fa
Type: article
The curious case of Swift J1753.5-0127
A.W. Shaw, B.E. Tetarenko, G. Dubus, T. Dinçer, J.A. Tomsick, P. Gandhi, R.M. Plotkin & D.M. Russell, 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482(2), 1840-1857
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2787
Type: article
Hubble space telescope emission-line Images of nearby 3CR radio galaxies
2019, Astrophysical Journal, 870(1)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaf002
Type: article
NuSTAR and Keck observations of heavily obscured quasars selected by WISE
Wei Yan, Ryan C. Hickox, Kevin N. Hainline, Daniel Stern, George Lansbury, David M. Alexander, Raphael E. Hviding, Roberto J. Assef, David R. Ballantyne, Michael A. Dipompeo, Lauranne Lanz, Christopher M. Carroll, Michael Koss, Isabella Lamperti, Francesca Civano, Agnese Del Moro, Poshak Gandhi & Adam D. Myers, 2019, Astrophysical Journal, 870(1)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaeed4
Type: article
GravityCam: Wide-field high-resolution high-cadence imaging surveys in the visible from the ground
C. Mackay, M. Dominik, I. A. Steele, C. Snodgrass, U. G. Jørgensen, J. Skottfelt, K. Stefanov, B. Carry, F. Braga-ribas, A. Doressoundiram, V. D. Ivanov, P. Gandhi, D. F. Evans, M. Hundertmark, S. Serjeant & S. Ortolani, 2018, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 35
DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2018.43
Type: article
New active galactic nuclei science cases with interferometry
Sebastian F. Hönig, Almudena Alonso Herrero, Poshak Gandhi, Makoto Kishimoto, Jörg Uwe Pott, Cristina Ramos Almeida, Jean Surdej & Konrad R.W. Tristram, 2018, Experimental Astronomy, 46(3), 413-419
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-018-9612-3
Type: article
Optical/X-ray correlations during the V404 Cygni June 2015 outburst
J. Alfonso-Garzón, C. Sánchez-Fernández, P. A. Charles, J. M. Mas-Hesse, P. Gandhi, M. Kimura, A. Domingo, J. Rodriguez & J. Chenevez, 2018, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 620
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834102
Type: article