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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

Gaia Data Release 2 distances and peculiar velocities for Galactic black hole transients
Poshak Gandhi, Anjali Rao, Michael A. C. Johnson, John A. Paice & Thomas J. Maccarone, 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(2), 2642-2655
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz438
Type: article
Radio frequency timing analysis of the compact jet in the black hole X-ray binary Cygnus X-1
A.J. Tetarenko, P. Casella, J.C. A. Miller-Jones, G. R. Sivakoff, B. E. Tetarenko, T. J. Maccarone, P. Gandhi & S. Eikenberry, 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(3), 2987-3003
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz165
Type: article
First cosmology results using SNe Ia from the Dark Energy Survey: analysis, systematic uncertainties, and validation
Mathew Smith, Mark Sullivan & Michael Childress, 2019, The Astrophysical Journal, 874(2), 1-30
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab08a0
Type: article
The luminosity dependence of thermally-driven disc winds in low-mass X-ray binaries
Nick Higginbottom, Christian Knigge, Knox S. Long, James H. Matthews & Edward J. Parkinson, 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(4), 4635-4644
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz310
Type: article
Prospecting for periods with LSST – low-mass X-ray binaries as a test case
Michael Johnson, Poshak Gandhi, Adriane Chapman, Luc Moreau, Philip Charles, William I. Clarkson & Adam Hill, 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(1), 19-30
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3466
Type: article