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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 host galaxies of 106 rapidly evolving transients discovered by the Dark Energy Survey
,
P. Wiseman,
M. Pursiainen,
M. Childress,
E. Swann,
L. Galbany,
C. Lidman,
C. P. Gutiérrez,
A. Möller,
C. Frohmaier,
R. J. Foley,
S. R. Hinton,
L. Kelsey,
R. Kessler,
M. Sako,
D. Scolnic,
M. Sullivan,
M. Vincenzi,
M. Aguena,
S. Allam,
J. Annis,
E. Bertin,
S. Bhargava,
D. L. Burke,
A. Carnero Rosell,
D. Carollo,
M. Carrasco Kind,
J. Carretero,
M. Costanzi,
L. N. da Costa,
H. T. Diehl,
P. Doel,
S. Everett,
P. Fosalba,
J. Frieman,
J. García-Bellido,
E. Gaztanaga,
K. Glazebrook,
D. Gruen,
R. A. Gruendl,
J. Gschwend,
G. Gutierrez,
D. L. Hollowood,
K. Honscheid,
K. Kuehn,
N. Kuropatkin,
M. Lima,
M. A. G. Maia,
P. Martini,
F. Menanteau,
& R. Miquel
, 2020 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 498 (2) , 2575--2593
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2474
Type: article
SN 2017ivv: two years of evolution of a transitional Type II supernova
C. P. Gutiérrez,
A. Pastorello,
A. Jerkstrand,
L. Galbany,
M. Sullivan,
S. Taubenberger,
H. Kuncarayakti,
S. González-Gaitán,
P. Wiseman,
C. Inserra,
M. Fraser,
S. Smartt,
T. E. Müller-Bravo,
I. Arcavi,
S. Benetti,
D. Bersier,
S. Bose,
K. A. Bostroem,
J. Burke,
M. Della Valle,
Subo Dong,
A. Gal-Yam,
M. Gromadzki,
D. Hiramatsu,
T. W.-S. Holoien,
G. Hosseinzadeh,
E. Kankare,
C. S. Kochanek,
C. McCully,
M. Nicholl,
G. Pignata,
B. Shappee,
K. Taggart,
L. Tomasella,
& S. Valenti
, 2020 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 499 (1) , 974--992
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2763
Type: article
First cosmology results using type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey
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M. Sullivan,
P. Wiseman,
R. Kessler,
D. Scolnic,
D. Brout,
C. B. D'Andrea,
R. J. Foley,
C. Frohmaier,
L. Galbany,
R. R. Gupta,
C. P. Gutiérrez,
S. R. Hinton,
L. Kelsey,
C. Lidman,
E. Macaulay,
A. Möller,
R. C. Nichol,
P. Nugent,
A. Palmese,
M. Pursiainen,
M. Sako,
E. Swann,
R. C. Thomas,
B. E. Tucker,
M. Vincenzi,
D. Carollo,
N. E. Sommer,
M. Aguena,
S. Allam,
S. Avila,
E. Bertin,
S. Bhargava,
E. Buckley-Geer,
D. L. Burke,
A. Carnero Rosell,
M. Carrasco Kind,
M. Costanzi,
L. N. da Costa,
J. De Vicente,
S. Desai,
H. T. Diehl,
P. Doel,
T. F. Eifler,
S. Everett,
B. Flaugher,
P. Fosalba,
J. Frieman,
J. García-Bellido,
E. Gaztanaga,
& K. Glazebrook
, 2020 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 494 (3) , 4426--4447
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa946
Type: article
DES16C3cje: A low-luminosity, long-lived supernova
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C. P. Gutiérrez,
M. Sullivan,
L. Martinez,
M. C. Bersten,
C. Inserra,
A. Pastorello,
L. Galbany,
P. Nugent,
C. R. Angus,
C. Barbarino,
D. Carollo,
M. Della Valle,
R. J. Foley,
M. Fraser,
C. Frohmaier,
S. González-Gaitán,
M. Gromadzki,
E. Kankare,
R. Kokotanekova,
J. Kollmeier,
M. R. Magee,
A. Möller,
N. Morrell,
M. Nicholl,
M. Pursiainen,
J. Sollerman,
N. E. Sommer,
E. Swann,
B. E. Tucker,
P. Wiseman,
M. Aguena,
S. Allam,
S. Avila,
E. Bertin,
E. Buckley-Geer,
D. L. Burke,
A. Carnero Rosell,
M. Carrasco Kind,
J. Carretero,
M. Costanzi,
L. N. da Costa,
J. De Vicente,
S. Desai,
H. T. Diehl,
P. Doel,
T. F. Eifler,
B. Flaugher,
P. Fosalba,
J. Frieman,
& J. García-Bellido
, 2020 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 496 (1) , 95--110
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1452
Type: article
Supernova host galaxies in the dark energy survey
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P. Wiseman,
M. Childress,
L. Kelsey,
A. Möller,
R. R. Gupta,
E. Swann,
C. R. Angus,
D. Brout,
R. J. Foley,
C. Frohmaier,
L. Galbany,
C. P. Gutiérrez,
C. Inserra,
R. Kessler,
C. Lidman,
E. Macaulay,
R. C. Nichol,
M. Pursiainen,
M. Sako,
D. Scolnic,
N. E. Sommer,
M. Sullivan,
B. E. Tucker,
M. Aguena,
S. Allam,
S. Avila,
E. Bertin,
E. Buckley-Geer,
D. L. Burke,
A. Carnero Rosell,
D. Carollo,
M. Carrasco Kind,
L. N. da Costa,
J. De Vicente,
S. Desai,
H. T. Diehl,
P. Doel,
T. F. Eifler,
S. Everett,
P. Fosalba,
J. Frieman,
J. García-Bellido,
E. Gaztanaga,
D. W. Gerdes,
K. Glazebrook,
R. A. Gruendl,
J. Gschwend,
W. G. Hartley,
S. R. Hinton,
& D. L. Hollowood
, 2020 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 495 (4) , 4040--4060
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1302
Type: article