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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

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