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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
Other researchers

Professor Mark Sullivan

Associate Dean-Research

Research interests

  • Supernovae
  • Time domain astronomy
  • Cosmology

Professor Poshak Gandhi

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • Data-intensive Astronomy
  • Social Impact of Astronomy
  • Time-domain astrophysics, Black Holes, Lunar astronomy

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

Dr Matthew Middleton

Associate Professor

Professor Sebastian Hoenig

Head of School

Research interests

  • Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Dust
  • Radiative transfer

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

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
A period-dependent spatial scatter of Galactic black hole transients
P. Gandhi,
A. Rao,
P.A. Charles,
K. Belczynski,
T.J. Maccarone,
K. Arur,
& J.M. Corral-Santana
, 2020 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters , 496 (1) , L22--L27
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slaa081
Type: article
The long term X-ray time lags of NGC 4051
I.E. Papadakis,
A Rigas,
A Markowitz,
& Ian McHardy
, 2019 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 1454--1459
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz489
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
Spectrophotometric templates for core collapse supernovae and their application in simulations of time-domain surveys
M. Vincenzi,
M. Sullivan,
R.E. Firth,
C.P. Gutierrez,
C. Frohmaier,
& M. Smith
, 2019 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2448
Type: article