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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

PISCOLA: a data-driven transient light-curve fitter
Tomás E. Müller-Bravo,
Mark Sullivan,
Mathew Smith,
Chris Frohmaier,
Claudia P. Gutiérrez,
Philip Wiseman,
& Zoe Zontou
, 2021 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3065
Type: article
Optimizing a magnitude-limited spectroscopic training sample for photometric classification of supernovae
Mark Sullivan,
Jonathan E. Carrick,
Isobel M. Hook,
Elizabeth Swann,
Kyle Boone,
C. Frohmaier,
& A.G. Kim
, 2021 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 508 (1) , 1--18
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2343
Type: article
From core collapse to superluminous: the rates of massive stellar explosions from the Palomar Transient Factory
C Frohmaier,
C R Angus,
M Vincenzi,
M Sullivan,
M Smith,
P E Nugent,
S B Cenko,
A Gal-Yam,
S R Kulkarni,
N M Law,
& R M Quimby
, 2021 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 500 (4) , 5142--5158
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3607
Type: article
Local AGN Survey (LASr): I. Galaxy sample, infrared colour selection and predictions for AGN within 100 Mpc
D. Asmus,
C.L. Greenwell,
P. Gandhi,
P.G. Boorman,
J. Aird,
D.M. Alexander,
R.J. Assef,
R.D. Baldi,
R.I. Davies,
S.F. Hönig,
C. Ricci,
D.J. Rosario,
M. Salvato,
F. Shankar,
& D. Stern
, 2020 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 494 (2) , 1784–1816
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa766
Type: article
First cosmology results using Supernovae Ia from the Dark Energy Survey
,
M. Smith,
C. B. D'Andrea,
M. Sullivan,
A. Möller,
R. C. Nichol,
A. G. Kim,
M. Sako,
F. J. Castander,
A. V. Filippenko,
R. J. Foley,
L. Galbany,
S. González-Gaitán,
E. Kasai,
R. P. Kirshner,
C. Lidman,
D. Scolnic,
D. Brout,
R. R. Gupta,
S. R. Hinton,
R. Kessler,
J. Lasker,
E. Macaulay,
R. C. Wolf,
J. Asorey,
A. Avelino,
B. A. Bassett,
J. Calcino,
D. Carollo,
R. Casas,
P. Challis,
M. Childress,
A. Clocchiatti,
S. Crawford,
C. Frohmaier,
K. Glazebrook,
D. A. Goldstein,
M. L. Graham,
J. K. Hoormann,
K. Kuehn,
K. S. Mandel,
E. Morganson,
D. Muthukrishna,
P. Nugent,
M. Pursiainen,
N. E. Sommer,
E. Swann,
B. E. Tucker,
S. A. Uddin,
P. Wiseman,
& J. Annis
, 2020 , The Astronomical Journal , 160 (6) , 267--287
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/abc01b
Type: article