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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 nuclear activity and central structure of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5322
Bililign T. Dullo,
Johan H. Knapen,
David R.A. Williams,
Robert J. Beswick,
George Bendo,
Ranieri D. Baldi,
Megan Argo,
Ian M. McHardy,
Tom Muxlow,
& J. Westcott
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 475 (4) , 4670--4682
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty069
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
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
Quasar emission lines as probes of orientation: implications for disc wind geometries and unification
J.H Matthews,
C. Knigge,
& K.S. Long
, 2017 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 467 (3) , 2571--2584
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx231
Type: article
Selection bias in dynamically-measured super-massive black hole samples: dynamical masses and dependence on Sérsic index
Francesco Shankar,
Mariangela Bernardi,
& Ravi K. Sheth
, 2017 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 466 , 4029--4039
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw3368
Type: article