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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

The long term X-ray time lags of NGC 4051
2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1454-1459
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz489
Type: article
WISE view of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies: mid-infrared colour and variability
Suvendu Rakshit, Ansu Johnson, C. S. Stalin, Poshak Gandhi & Sebastian Hoenig, 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483(2), 2362-2370
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3261
Type: article
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