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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

Assessing quasi-periodicities in Jovian x-ray emissions
C. M. Jackman,
C. Knigge,
D. Altamirano,
R. Gladstone,
W. Dunn,
R. Elsner,
R. Kraft,
G. Branduardi-Raymont,
& P. Ford
, 2018 , Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics , 123 (11) , 9204--9221
DOI: 10.1029/2018JA025490
Type: article
A catalog of polychromatic bulge-disc decompositions of ~17.600 galaxies in CANDELS
Paola Dimauro,
Marc Huertas-Company,
Emanuele Daddi,
Pablo G. Pérez-González,
Mariangela Bernardi,
Guillermo Barro,
Fernando Buitrago,
Fernando Caro,
Andrea Cattaneo,
Helena Dominguez-Sánchez,
Sandra M. Faber,
Boris Häußler,
Dale D. Kocevski,
Anton M. Koekemoer,
David C. Koo,
Christoph T. Lee,
Simona Mei,
Berta Margalef-Bentabol,
Joel Primack,
Aldo Rodriguez-Puebla,
Mara Salvato,
Francesco Shankar,
& Diego Tuccillo
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 478 (4) , 5410--5426
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1379
Type: article
Determination of the size of the dust torus in H0507+164 through optical and infrared monitoring
Amit Kumar Mandal,
Suvendu Rakshit,
Kshama S. Kurian,
C. S. Stalin,
Blesson Mathew,
Sebastian Hoenig,
Poshak Gandhi,
Ram Sagar,
& M. B. Pandge
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty200
Type: article
NGC 1275: an outlier of the black hole-host scaling relations
Eleonora Sani,
Federica Ricci,
Fabio Le Franca,
Stefano Bianchi,
Angela Bongiorno,
Marcella Brusa,
Alessandro Marconi,
Francesca Onori,
F Shankar,
& Cristian Vignali
, 2018 , Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
DOI: 10.3389/fspas.2018.00002
Type: article
Mid-UV studies of the transitional millisecond pulsars XSS J12270-4859 and PSR J1023+0038 during their radio pulsar states
L.E. Rivera Sandoval,
J.V. Hernandez Santisteban,
N. Degenaar,
R. Wijnands,
C. Knigge,
J.M. Miller,
M. Reynolds,
D. Altamirano,
M. van den Berg,
& A. Hill
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 476 (1) , 1086--1099
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty291
Type: article