Manda Banerji-Wright

Research interests

Galaxy formation and evolution

Active galaxies and supermassive black holes

Wide-field imaging and spectroscopic surveys

Accepting applications from PhD students.

Research

Research groups

Member of:

Southampton Theory Astrophysics and Gravity (STAG) Research Centre

Research interests

Galaxy formation and evolution
Active galaxies and supermassive black holes
Wide-field imaging and spectroscopic surveys

Research projects

Active projects

Observing the Effects of Quasar Feedback on Massive Galaxy Formation

Researchers:

Professor Manda Banerji

Sponsor: Royal Society

LSST:UK Phase C: Southampton Component

Researchers:

Professor Manda Banerji

Professor Mark Sullivan

Sponsor: Science And Technology Facilities Council

Leveraging Multi-wavelength Surveys To Establish The Quasar-galaxy Connection

Researchers:

Professor Manda Banerji

Sponsor: Royal Society

Rubin-Euclid Joint Image Processing

Researchers:

Professor Manda Banerji

Sponsor: Science And Technology Facilities Council

Completed projects

Multi-wavelength Data Fusion in the Era of Big Sky Surveys

Researchers:

Professor Manda Banerji

Sponsor: Royal Society

Dusty Supermassive Black Hole Growth During the Cosmic Noon of Galaxy Formation’

Researchers:

Professor Manda Banerji

Sponsor: Royal Society

Population Studies of Feeding Supermassive Black Holes in the Distant Universe with the new 4MOST Instrument’

Researchers:

Professor Manda Banerji

Sponsor: Royal Society

Publications

33 publications

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ALMA observations of dual quasars: evidence of rich and diverse molecular gas environments

Shenli Tang, John D Silverman, Zhaoxuan Liu, Manda Banerji, Tomoko Suzuki, Seiji Fujimoto, Andy Goulding, Masatoshi Imanishi, Toshihiro Kawaguchi, Connor Bottrell, Tilman Hartwig, Knud Jahnke, Masafusa Onoue, Malte Schramm & Yoshihiro Ueda, 2025, Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 538(4), 3001-3022

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf416

Type: article

A big red dot

Matthew Stepney, Manda Banerji, Shenli Tang, Paul C. Hewett, Matthew J. Temple, Clare F. Wethers, Annagrazia Puglisi & Stephen J. Molyneux, 2024, Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 533(3), 2948-2965

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1970

Type: article

AGNfitter-rx: modelling the radio-to-X-ray spectral energy distributions of AGNs

L.N. Martínez-Ramírez, G. Calistro Rivera, Elisabeta Lusso, F.E. Bauer, E. Nardini, J. Buchner, M.J.I. Brown, J.C.B. Pineda, M.J. Temple, M. Banerji, M. Stalevski & J.F. Hennawi, 2024, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 688

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449329

Type: article

[O III] emission in z ≈ 2 quasars with and without broad absorption lines

Matthew J. Temple, Amy L. Rankine, Manda Banerji, Joseph F. Hennawi, Paul C. Hewett, James H. Matthews, Riccardo Nanni, Claudio Ricci & Gordon T. Richards, 2024, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(1), 424-437

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1524

Type: article

A disc wind model for blueshifts in quasar broad emission lines

James H. Matthews, Jago Strong-Wright, Christian Knigge, Paul Hewett, Matthew J. Temple, Knox S. Long, Amy L. Rankine, Matthew Stepney, Manda Banerji & Gordon T. Richards, 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526(3), 3967–3986

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2895

Type: article

No redshift evolution in the rest-frame UV emission line properties of quasars from z=1.5 to z=4.0

Matthew Stepney, Manda Banerji, Paul C. Hewett, Matthew J. Temple, Amy L. Rankine, James H. Matthews & Gordon T. Richards, 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(4), 5497-5513

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2060

Type: article

Multiwavelength observations of the extraordinary accretion event AT2021lwx

P. Wiseman, Y. Wang, S. Hönig, N. Castro-Segura, P. Clark, C. Frohmaier, M.D. Fulton, G. Leloudas, M. Middleton, T.E. Müller-Bravo, A. Mummery, M. Pursiainen, S.J. Smartt, K. Smith, M. Sullivan, J.P. Anderson, J.A. Acosta Pulido, P. Charalampopoulos, M. Banerji, M. Dennefeld, L. Galbany, M. Gromadzki, C.P. Gutiérrez, N. Ihanec, E. Kankare, A. Lawrence, B. Mockler, T. Moore, M. Nicholl, F. Onori, T. Petrushevska, F. Ragosta, S. Rest, M. Smith, T. Wevers, R. Carini, T. -W. Chen, K. Chambers, H. Gao, M. Huber, C. Inserra, E. Magnier, L. Makrygianni, M. Toy, F. Vincentelli & D.R. Young, 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522(3), 3992-4002

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1000

Type: article

Testing AGN outflow and accretion models with C iv and He ii emission line demographics in z ≈ 2 quasars

Matthew J. Temple, James H. Matthews, Paul C. Hewett, Amy L. Rankine, Gordon T. Richards, Manda Banerji, Gary J. Ferland, Christian Knigge & Matthew Stepney, 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523(1), 646–666

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1448

Type: article

A fresh look at AGN spectral energy distribution fitting with the XMM-SERVS AGN sample

Adam Marshall, Matthew W Auger-Williams, Manda Banerji, Roberto Maiolino & Rebecca Bowler, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515(4), 5617–5628

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1619

Type: article

Dark energy survey Year 3 results: deep field optical + near-infrared images and catalogue

W G Hartley, A Choi, A Amon, R A Gruendl, E Sheldon, I Harrison, G M Bernstein, I Sevilla-noarbe, B Yanny, K Eckert, H T Diehl, A Alarcon, M Banerji, K Bechtol, R Buchs, S Cantu, C Conselice, J Cordero, C Davis, T M Davis, S Dodelson, A Drlica-wagner, S Everett, A Ferté, D Gruen, K Honscheid, M Jarvis, M D Johnson, N Kokron, N Maccrann, J Myles, A B Pace, A Palmese, F Paz-chinchón, M E S Pereira, A A Plazas, J Prat, M Rodriguez-monroy, E S Rykoff, S Samuroff, C Sánchez, L F Secco, F Tarsitano, A Tong, M A Troxel, Z Vasquez, K Wang, C Zhou, T M C Abbott, M Aguena, S Allam, J Annis, D Bacon, E Bertin, S Bhargava, D Brooks, D L Burke, A Carnero rosell, M Carrasco kind, J Carretero, F J Castander, M Costanzi, M Crocce, L N Da costa, J De vicente, J Derose, S Desai, J P Dietrich, T F Eifler, J Elvin-poole, I Ferrero, B Flaugher, P Fosalba, J García-bellido, E Gaztanaga, D W Gerdes, J Gschwend, G Gutierrez, S R Hinton, D L Hollowood, D Huterer, D J James, S Kent, E Krause, K Kuehn, N Kuropatkin, O Lahav, H Lin, M A G Maia, M March, J L Marshall, P Martini, P Melchior, F Menanteau, R Miquel, J J Mohr, R Morgan, E Neilsen, R L C Ogando, S Pandey, A K Romer, A Roodman, M Sako, E Sanchez, V Scarpine, S Serrano, M Smith, M Soares-santos, E Suchyta, M E C Swanson, G Tarle, D Thomas, C To, T N Varga, A R Walker, W Wester, R D Wilkinson & J Zuntz, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 509(3), 3547-3579

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3055

Type: article

Professor Manda Banerji

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