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Astrophysics at Southampton (Physics A - Consolidated Grant)

Staff

Other researchers

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 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

Research outputs

X-ray reverberation lags from the 1.5 Seyfert galaxy NGC 5273
2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492(1), 1135-1141
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3511
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
Unveiling the 100 pc scale nuclear radio structure of NGC6217 with e-MERLIN and the VLA
2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(4), 4962-4979
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1135
Type: article
Do reverberation mapping analyses provide an accurate picture of the broad line region?
S. W. Mangham, C. Knigge, P. Williams, Keith Horne, A. Pancoast, J. H. Matthews, K. S. Long, S. A. Sim & N. Higginbottom, 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1713
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
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
High-resolution VLA observations of FR0 radio galaxies: the properties and nature of compact radio sources
2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482(2), 2294-2304
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2703
Type: article