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C Knigge - Astrophysics at Southampton

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Christian Knigge

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

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

Professor Mark Sullivan

Associate Dean-Research

Research interests

  • Supernovae
  • Time domain astronomy
  • Cosmology

Professor Poshak Gandhi

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • Data-intensive Astronomy
  • Social Impact of Astronomy
  • Time-domain astrophysics, Black Holes, Lunar astronomy

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

Dr Matthew Middleton

Associate Professor

Professor Sebastian Hoenig

Head of School

Research interests

  • Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Dust
  • Radiative transfer

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Multiwavelength Accretion and Astronomical Transients

Our group carries out frontline research on observational astrophyics. We study black holes across the electromagnetic spectrum, the formation and growth.

Research outputs

The double-peaked Type Ic supernova 2019cad: another SN 2005bf-like object
C. P. Gutiérrez,
M. C. Bersten,
M. Orellana,
A. Pastorello,
K. Ertini,
G. Folatelli,
G. Pignata,
S. Smartt,
M. Sullivan,
M. Pursiainen,
C. Inserra,
N. Elias-Rosa,
M. Fraser,
E. Kankare,
S. Moran,
A. Reguitti,
T. M. Reynolds,
M. Stritzinger,
J. Burke,
C. Frohmaier,
L. Galbany,
D. Hiramatsu,
H. Kuncarayakti,
S. Mattila,
T. Müller-Bravo,
& C. Pellegrino
, 2021 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 504 (4) , 4907--4922
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1009
Type: article
The first Hubble diagram and cosmological constraints using superluminous supernovae
,
C. Inserra,
M. Sullivan,
C. R. Angus,
E. Macaulay,
R. C. Nichol,
C. Frohmaier,
C. P. Gutiérrez,
M. Vicenzi,
A. Möller,
D. Brout,
C. B. D'Andrea,
L. Galbany,
R. Kessler,
A. G. Kim,
M. Pursiainen,
D. Scolnic,
P. Wiseman,
J. Annis,
S. Avila,
E. Bertin,
D. L. Burke,
A. Carnero Rosell,
M. Carrasco Kind,
J. Carretero,
F. J. Castander,
R. Cawthon,
S. Desai,
H. T. Diehl,
T. F. Eifler,
D. A. Finley,
B. Flaugher,
P. Fosalba,
J. Frieman,
J. Garcia-Bellido,
E. Gaztanaga,
D. W. Gerdes,
T. Giannantonio,
D. Gruen,
R. A. Gruendl,
J. Gschwend,
G. Gutierrez,
D. L. Hollowood,
K. Honscheid,
E. Krause,
K. Kuehn,
N. Kuropatkin,
C. Lidman,
M. Lima,
M. A. G. Maia,
& E. Swann
, 2021 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 504 (2) , 2535--2549
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab978
Type: article
Understanding the extreme luminosity of DES14X2fna
,
M. Grayling,
C. P. Gutiérrez,
M. Sullivan,
P. Wiseman,
M. Vincenzi,
S. González-Gaitán,
B. E. Tucker,
L. Galbany,
L. Kelsey,
C. Lidman,
E. Swann,
C. Frohmaier,
D. Carollo,
K. Glazebrook,
A. Möller,
S. R. Hinton,
S. A. Uddin,
M. Aguena,
S. Avila,
E. Bertin,
S. Bhargava,
A. Carnero Rosell,
M. Carrasco Kind,
J. Carretero,
M. Costanzi,
L. N. da Costa,
J. De Vicente,
S. Desai,
H. T. Diehl,
P. Doel,
S. Everett,
I. Ferrero,
P. Fosalba,
J. Frieman,
J. García-Bellido,
E. Gaztanaga,
D. Gruen,
R. A. Gruendl,
J. Gschwend,
G. Gutierrez,
B. Hoyle,
K. Kuehn,
N. Kuropatkin,
M. Lima,
N. MacCrann,
P. Martini,
R. Miquel,
A. Palmese,
F. Paz-Chinchón,
& A. A. Plazas
, 2021 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 505 (3) , 3950--3967
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1478
Type: article
The Dark Energy Survey supernova programme: modelling selection efficiency and observed core-collapse supernova contamination
,
M. Vincenzi,
M. Sullivan,
O. Graur,
D. Brout,
C. Frohmaier,
L. Galbany,
C. P. Gutiérrez,
S. R. Hinton,
L. Kelsey,
R. Kessler,
E. Kovacs,
S. Kuhlmann,
J. Lasker,
C. Lidman,
A. Möller,
R. C. Nichol,
M. Sako,
D. Scolnic,
E. Swann,
P. Wiseman,
J. Asorey,
B. E. Tucker,
M. Aguena,
S. Allam,
S. Avila,
E. Bertin,
D. L. Burke,
A. Carnero Rosell,
M. Carrasco Kind,
J. Carretero,
F. J. Castander,
A. Choi,
M. Costanzi,
L. N. da Costa,
M. E. S. Pereira,
J. De Vicente,
S. Desai,
H. T. Diehl,
P. Doel,
S. Everett,
I. Ferrero,
P. Fosalba,
J. Frieman,
J. García-Bellido,
E. Gaztanaga,
D. W. Gerdes,
D. Gruen,
R. A. Gruendl,
G. Gutierrez,
& D. L. Hollowood
, 2021 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 505 (2) , 2819--2839
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1353
Type: article
Rates and delay times of Type Ia supernovae in the Dark Energy Survey
P. Wiseman,
M. Sullivan,
M. Smith,
C. Frohmaier,
M. Vincenzi,
O. Graur,
B. Popovic,
P. Armstrong,
D. Brout,
T. M. Davis,
L. Galbany,
S. R. Hinton,
L. Kelsey,
R. Kessler,
C. Lidman,
A. Möller,
R. C. Nichol,
B. Rose,
D. Scolnic,
M. Toy,
Z. Zontou,
J. Asorey,
D. Carollo,
K. Glazebrook,
G. F. Lewis,
B. E. Tucker,
T. M. C. Abbott,
M. Aguena,
S. Allam,
F. Andrade-Oliveira,
J. Annis,
D. Bacon,
E. Bertin,
D. Brooks,
E. Buckley-Geer,
D. L. Burke,
A. Carnero Rosell,
M. Carrasco Kind,
J. Carretero,
M. Costanzi,
L. N. da Costa,
M. E. S. Pereira,
S. Desai,
H. T. Diehl,
P. Doel,
S. Everett,
I. Ferrero,
B. Flaugher,
P. Fosalba,
J. Frieman,
J. García-Bellido,
E. Gaztanaga,
T. Giannantonio,
D. Gruen,
R. A. Gruendl,
J. Gschwend,
G. Gutierrez,
D. L. Hollowood,
K. Honscheid,
B. Hoyle,
D. J. James,
E. Krause,
K. Kuehn,
N. Kuropatkin,
M. A. G. Maia,
J. L. Marshall,
P. Martini,
F. Menanteau,
R. Miquel,
R. Morgan,
R. L. C. Ogando,
A. Palmese,
F. Paz-Chinchón,
D. Petravick,
A. Pieres,
A. A. Plazas Malagón,
A. K. Romer,
E. Sanchez,
V. Scarpine,
M. Schubnell,
S. Serrano,
I. Sevilla-Noarbe,
M. Soares-Santos,
E. Suchyta,
M. E. C. Swanson,
G. Tarle,
D. Thomas,
C. To,
T. N. Varga,
A. R. Walker,
& DES Collaboration
, 2021 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 506 (3) , 3330–3348
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab1943
Type: article