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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

Swift monitoring observations of Mrk 231
Lilan Yang,
Xinyu Dai,
Youjun Lu,
Zong Hong Zhu1,
& Francesco Shankar
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 480 (4) , 5504--5510
DOI: 10.1093/MNRAS/STY2253
Type: article
Radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of thermally-driven disc winds in X-ray binaries
Nick Higginbottom,
Christian Knigge,
Knox S. Long,
James H. Matthews,
Stuart A. Sim,
& Henrietta A. Hewitt
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 479 (3) , 3651–3662
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1599
Type: article
M*/L gradients driven by IMF variation
M. Bernardi,
R.K. Sheth,
H. Dominguez-Sanchez,
J.-L. Fischer,
K.-H. Chae,
M. Huertas-Company,
& F. Shankar
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 477 (2) , 2560–2571
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty781
Type: article
New active galactic nuclei science cases with interferometry
Sebastian F. Hönig,
Almudena Alonso Herrero,
Poshak Gandhi,
Makoto Kishimoto,
Jörg Uwe Pott,
Cristina Ramos Almeida,
Jean Surdej,
& Konrad R.W. Tristram
, 2018 , Experimental Astronomy , 46 (3) , 413--419
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-018-9612-3
Type: article
LeMMINGs. I. The eMERLIN legacy survey of nearby galaxies. 1.5-GHz parsec-scale radio structures and cores
R.D. Baldi,
D.R.A. Williams,
I.M. McHardy,
R.J. Beswick,
M.K. Argo,
B.T. Dullo,
J.H. Knapen,
E. Brinks,
T.W.B. Muxlow,
S. Aalto,
A. Alberdi,
G.J. Bendo,
S. Corbel,
R. Evans,
D.M. Fenech,
D.A. Green,
H.-R. Klöckner,
E. Körding,
P. Kharb,
T.J. Maccarone,
I. Martí-Vidal,
C.G. Mundell,
F. Panessa,
A.B. Peck,
M.A. Pérez-Torres,
D.J. Saikia,
P. Saikia,
F. Shankar,
R.E. Spencer,
I.R. Stevens,
P. Uttley,
& J. Westcott
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 476 (3) , 3478--3522
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty342
Type: article