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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

Evidence for hot clumpy accretion flow in the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038
T. Shahbaz,
Y. Dallilar,
A. Garner,
S. Eikenberry,
A. Veledina,
& P. Gandhi
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 477 (1) , 566--577
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty562
Type: article
Characterization of the infrared/X-ray subsecond variability for the black hole transient GX 339-4
F.M. Vincentelli,
P. Casella,
T.J. Maccarone,
P. Uttley,
P. Gandhi,
T. Belloni,
B. De Marco,
D.M. Russell,
L. Stella,
& K. O'Brien
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 477 (4) , 4524--4533
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty710
Type: article
Jets, arcs and shocks
H. Rampadarath,
R. Soria,
R. Urquhart,
M.K. Argo,
M. Brightman,
C.K. Lacey,
E.M. Schlegel,
R.J. Beswick,
R.D. Baldi,
T.W.B. Muxlow,
I.M. McHardy,
D.R.A. Williams,
& G. Dumas
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 476 (3) , 2876–2889
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty390
Type: article
A high-density relativistic reflection origin for the soft and hard X-ray excess emission from Mrk 1044
L. Mallick,
W.N. Alston,
M.L. Parker,
A.C. Fabian,
C. Pinto,
G.C. Dewangan,
A. Markowitz,
P. Gandhi,
A.K. Kembhavi,
& R. Misra
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 479 (1) , 615--634
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1487
Type: article
Optical/X-ray correlations during the V404 Cygni June 2015 outburst
J. Alfonso-Garzón,
C. Sánchez-Fernández,
P. A. Charles,
J. M. Mas-Hesse,
P. Gandhi,
M. Kimura,
A. Domingo,
J. Rodriguez,
& J. Chenevez
, 2018 , Astronomy & Astrophysics , 620
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834102
Type: article