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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

The double-peaked Type Ic supernova 2019cad: another SN 2005bf-like object
C. P. Gutiérrez, M. C. Bersten, M. Orellana, A. Pastorello, K. Ertini, G. Folatelli, G. Pignata, S. Smartt, M. Sullivan, M. Pursiainen, C. Inserra, N. Elias-Rosa, M. Fraser, E. Kankare, S. Moran, A. Reguitti, T. M. Reynolds, M. Stritzinger, J. Burke, C. Frohmaier, L. Galbany, D. Hiramatsu, H. Kuncarayakti, S. Mattila, T. Müller-Bravo & C. Pellegrino, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504(4), 4907-4922
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1009
Type: article
The first Hubble diagram and cosmological constraints using superluminous supernovae
C. Inserra, M. Sullivan, C. R. Angus, E. Macaulay, R. C. Nichol, C. Frohmaier, C. P. Gutiérrez, M. Vicenzi, A. Möller, D. Brout, C. B. D'Andrea, L. Galbany, R. Kessler, A. G. Kim, M. Pursiainen, D. Scolnic, P. Wiseman, J. Annis, S. Avila, E. Bertin, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, F. J. Castander, R. Cawthon, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, T. F. Eifler, D. A. Finley, B. Flaugher, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, J. Garcia-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, D. W. Gerdes, T. Giannantonio, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, E. Krause, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, C. Lidman, M. Lima, M. A. G. Maia & E. Swann, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504(2), 2535-2549
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab978
Type: article
The effect of environment on Type Ia supernovae in the Dark Energy Survey three-year cosmological sample
L. Kelsey, M. Sullivan, P. Wiseman, D. Brout, C. Frohmaier, L. Galbany, M. Grayling, C. P. Gutiérrez, S. R. Hinton, R. Kessler, C. Lidman, A. Möller, M. Sako, D. Scolnic, S. A. Uddin, M. Vincenzi, M. Aguena, S. Allam, J. Annis, S. Avila, E. Bertin, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, F. J. Castander, M. Costanzi, L. N. da Costa, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, S. Everett, I. Ferrero, A. Ferté, B. Flaugher, P. Fosalba, J. García-Bellido, D. W. Gerdes, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, A. G. Kim, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, O. Lahav, M. Lima & P. Martini, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501(4), 4861-4876
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3924
Type: article
From core collapse to superluminous: the rates of massive stellar explosions from the Palomar Transient Factory
C Frohmaier, C R Angus, M Vincenzi, M Sullivan, M Smith, P E Nugent, S B Cenko, A Gal-Yam, S R Kulkarni, N M Law & R M Quimby, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500(4), 5142-5158
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3607
Type: article
Soft X-ray emission lines in the X-ray binary Swift J1858.6-0814 observed with XMM-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometer
D. J. K. Buisson, D. Altamirano, M. Díaz Trigo, M. Mendez, M. Armas Padilla, N. Castro Segura, N. D. Degenaar, J. van den Eijnden, F. A. Fogantini, P. Gandhi, C. Knigge, T. Muñoz-Darias, M. Özbey Arabacı & F. M. Vincentelli, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 498(1), 68-76
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2258
Type: article