Open menu
View all research projects
Research project

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

Professor Christian Knigge

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

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

Research outputs

LOFAR reveals the giant
V. Heesen,
J.H. Croston,
R. Morganti,
M.J. Hardcastle,
A.J. Stewart,
P.N. Best,
J.W. Broderick,
M. Brüggen,
G. Brunetti,
K.T. Chyzy,
J.J. Harwood,
M. Haverkorn,
K.M. Hess,
H.T. Intema,
M. Jamrozy,
M. Kunert-Bajraszewska,
J.P. McKean,
E. Orrú,
H.J.A. Röttgering,
T.W. Shimwell,
A. Shulevski,
G.J. White,
E.M. Wilcots,
& W.L. Williams
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 474 (4) , 5049--5067
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2869
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
Jets, arcs and shocks
H. Rampadarath,
R. Soria,
R. Urquhart,
M.K. Argo,
M. Brightman,
C.K. Lacey,
E.M. Schlegel,
R.J. Beswick,
R.D. Baldi,
T.W.B. Muxlow,
I.M. McHardy,
D.R.A. Williams,
& G. Dumas
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 476 (3) , 2876–2889
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty390
Type: article
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
Radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of thermally-driven disc winds in X-ray binaries
Nick Higginbottom,
Christian Knigge,
Knox S. Long,
James H. Matthews,
Stuart A. Sim,
& Henrietta A. Hewitt
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 479 (3) , 3651–3662
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1599
Type: article