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Astrophysics at Southampton (Physics A - Consolidated Grant)

Staff

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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

LOFAR facet calibration
2016, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 223(2), 1-16
DOI: 10.3847/0067-0049/223/1/2
Type: article
LOFAR, VLA, and Chandra observations of the toothbrush galaxy cluster
2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 818(204), 1-19
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/818/2/204
Type: article
Constraining AGN triggering mechanisms through the clustering analysis of active black holes
M. Gatti, F. Shankar, V. Boillot, N. Menci, A. Lamastra, M. Hirschmann & F. Fiore, 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(1), 1073-1092
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2754
Type: article
A matter of measurement: rotation velocities and the velocity function of dwarf galaxies
Chris B. Brook & Francesco Shankar, 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(4), 3841-3847
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2550
Type: article
Deep Chandra observations of Pictor A
2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(4), 3526-3545
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2553
Type: article
The optical-UV emissivity of quasars: dependence on black hole mass and radio loudness
Francesco Shankar, Giorgio Calderone, Christian Knigge, James Matthews, Rachel Buckland, Krzysztof Hryniewicz, Gregory Sivakoff, Xinyu Dai, Kayleigh Richardson, Jack Riley, James Gray, Fabio La Franca, Diego Altamirano, Judith Croston, Poshak Gandhi, Sebastian Hoenig, Ian Mchardy & Matthew Middleton, 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 818(1), 1-6
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/818/1/L1
Type: article
Spectral ageing in the lobes of cluster-centre FR II radio galaxies
2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(4), 3403-3422
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2194
Type: article