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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

Selection bias in dynamically measured supermassive black hole samples: Scaling relations and correlations between residuals in semi-analytic galaxy formation models
Enrico Barausse,
F Shankar,
& Mariangela Bernardi
, 2017 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 468 (4) , 4782--4791
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx799
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
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
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
Detection of faint broad emission lines in type 2 AGNs – III. On the MBH-σ⋆ relation of type 2 AGNs
F. Ricci,
F. La Franca,
A. Marconi,
F. Onori,
F. Shankar,
R. Schneider,
E. Sani,
S. Bianchi,
A. Bongiorno,
M. Brusa,
F. Fiore,
R. Maiolino,
& C. Vignali
, 2017 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 471 (1) , L41--L46
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slx103
Type: article