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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
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

HST spectrum and timing of the ultra-compact X-ray binary candidate 47 Tuc X9
V. Tudor, J.C.A. Miller-Jones, C. Knigge, T.J. Maccarone, T.M. Tauris, A. Bahramian, L. Chomiuk, C.O. Heinke, G.R. Sivakoff, J. Strader, R.M. Plotkin, R. Soria, M.D. Albrow, G.E. Anderson, M. van den Berg, F. Bernardini, S. Bogdanov, C.T. Britt, D.M. Russell & D.R. Zurek, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(2), 1614-1623
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty274
Type: article
LeMMINGs. I. The eMERLIN legacy survey of nearby galaxies. 1.5-GHz parsec-scale radio structures and cores
R.D. Baldi, D.R.A. Williams, I.M. McHardy, R.J. Beswick, M.K. Argo, B.T. Dullo, J.H. Knapen, E. Brinks, T.W.B. Muxlow, S. Aalto, A. Alberdi, G.J. Bendo, S. Corbel, R. Evans, D.M. Fenech, D.A. Green, H.-R. Klöckner, E. Körding, P. Kharb, T.J. Maccarone, I. Martí-Vidal, C.G. Mundell, F. Panessa, A.B. Peck, M.A. Pérez-Torres, D.J. Saikia, P. Saikia, F. Shankar, R.E. Spencer, I.R. Stevens, P. Uttley & J. Westcott, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(3), 3478-3522
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty342
Type: article
The nuclear activity and central structure of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5322
2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(4), 4670-4682
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty069
Type: article
Accretion disk reverberation with Hubble Space Telescope observations of NGC 4593
2018, Astrophysical Journal, 857(1)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aab4f7
Type: article
LOFAR reveals the giant
2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(4), 5049-5067
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2869
Type: article
Stellar mass functions and implications for a variable IMF
M. Bernardi, R.K. Sheth, J.-L. Fischer, A. Meert, K.-H. Chae, H. Dominguez-Sanchez, M. Huertas-Company, F. Shankar & V. Vikram, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475(1), 757-771
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx3171
Type: article
NGC 1275: an outlier of the black hole-host scaling relations
Eleonora Sani, Federica Ricci, Fabio Le Franca, Stefano Bianchi, Angela Bongiorno, Marcella Brusa, Alessandro Marconi, Francesca Onori, F Shankar & Cristian Vignali, 2018, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
DOI: 10.3389/fspas.2018.00002
Type: article