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

The high mass end of the stellar mass function: dependence on stellar population models and agreement between fits to the light profile

M. Bernardi, A. Meert, R. K. Sheth, J.-L. Fischer, M. Huertas-Company, C. Maraston, F. Shankar & V. Vikram, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 467(2), 2217-2233

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx176

Type: article

Constraining the UV emissivity of AGN throughout cosmic time via X-ray surveys

Federica Ricci, Stefano Marchesi, Francesco Shankar, Fabio La Franca & Francesca Civano, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(2), 1915-1925

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2909

Type: article

Thermal disk winds in x-ray binaries: realistic heating and cooling rates give rise to slow, but massive, outflows

N. Higginbottom, D. Proga, C. Knigge & K.S. Long, 2017, The Astrophysical Journal, 836(1)

DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/836/1/42

Type: article

A comprehensive long term study of the radio and X-ray Variability of NGC 4051 Paper II

S. Jones, I. Mchardy & T.J. Maccarone, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465(2), 1336-1347

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2810

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

A White Paper on keV sterile neutrino dark matter

R. Adhikari, M. Agostini, N. Anh Ky, T. Araki, M. Archidiacono, M. Bahr, J. Baur, J. Behrens, F. Bezrukov, P. S. Bhupal Dev, D. Borah, A. Boyarsky, A. de Gouvea, C. A. de S. Pires, H. J. de Vega, A. G. Dias, P. Di Bari, Z. Djurcic, K. Dolde, H. Dorrer, M. Durero, O. Dragoun, M. Drewes, G. Drexlin, Ch E. Düllmann, K. Eberhardt, S. Eliseev, C. Enss, A. Faessler, P. Filianin, V. Fischer, A. Fleischmann, J. A. Formaggio, J. Franse, F. M. Fraenkle, C. S. Frenk, G. Fuller, L. Gastaldo, A. Garzilli, C. Giunti, F. Glück, M. C. Goodman, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, D. Gorbunov, J. Hamann, V. Hannen, S. Hannestad, S. H. Hansen, A. Merle & F. Shankar, 2017, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2017(1)

DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/01/025

Type: article

Cosmology with AGN dust time lags–simulating the new VEILS survey

S.F. Hoenig, D. Watson, M. Kishimoto, P. Gandhi, M. Goad, K. Horne, F. Shankar, M. Banerji, B. Boulderstone, M. Jarvis, M. Smith & M. Sullivan, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(2), 1693-1703

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw2484

Type: article