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Astrophysics at Southampton (Physics A - Consolidated Grant)

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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

Professor Christian Knigge

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • accretion phenomena and associated outflows
  • cataclysmic variables
  • close binaries

Research outputs

The curious activity in the nucleus of NGC 4151: jet interaction causing variability?
D.R. Williams,
Ranieri Diego Baldi,
Ian McHardy,
R.J. Beswick,
F. Panessa,
D. May,
J. Moldon,
M.K. Argo,
G. Bruni,
B.T. Dullo,
J.H. Knapen,
E. Brinks,
D.M. Fenech,
C.G. Mundell,
T.W.B. Muxlow,
M. Pahari,
& J. Westcott
, 2020 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 495 (3) , 3079--3086
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1152
Type: article
Stratified disc wind models for the AGN broad-line region: ultraviolet, optical, and X-ray properties
James H. Matthews,
Christian Knigge,
Nick Higginbottom,
Knox S. Long,
Stuart A. Sim,
Samuel W. Mangham,
Edward J. Parkinson,
& Henrietta A. Hewitt
, 2020 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 492 (4) , 5540--5560
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa136
Type: article
Thermal and radiation driving can produce observable disc winds in hard-state X-ray binaries
Nick Higginbottom,
Christian Knigge,
Stuart A. Sim,
Knox S. Long,
James H. Matthews,
Henrietta A. Hewitt,
Edward J. Parkinson,
& Sam W. Mangham
, 2020 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 492 (4) , 5271--5279
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa209
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 eclipsing accreting white dwarf Z Chameleontis as seen with TESS
J.M.C. Court,
S. Scaringi,
S. Rappaport,
Z. Zhan,
C. Littlefield,
N. Castro Segura,
C. Knigge,
T. Maccarone,
M. Kennedy,
P. Szkody,
& P. Garnavich
, 2019 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 488 (3) , 4149--4160
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2015
Type: article