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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

NuSTAR observations of the Transient Galactic Black Hole Binary Candidate Swift J1858.6-0814: A new sibling of V404 Cyg and V4641 Sgr?
Jeremy Hare,
John A. Tomsick,
Maïca Clavel,
Poshak Gandhi,
Javier Garcia,
Brian W. Grefenstette,
Dominic J. Walton,
& Yanjun Xu
, 2020 , The Astrophysical Journal , 890 (1)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab6a12
Type: article
Probing the circumnuclear absorbing medium of the buried AGN in NGC 1068 through NuSTAR observations
A. Zaino,
S. Bianchi,
A. Marinucci,
G. Matt,
F.E. Bauer,
W.N. Brandt,
Poshak Gandhi,
M. Guainazzi,
K. Iwasawa,
S. Puccetti,
C. Ricci,
& D.J. Walton
, 2020 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (3) , 3872--3884
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa107
Type: article
Stratified disc wind models for the AGN broad-line region: ultraviolet, optical, and X-ray properties
James H. Matthews,
Christian Knigge,
Nick Higginbottom,
Knox S. Long,
Stuart A. Sim,
Samuel W. Mangham,
Edward J. Parkinson,
& Henrietta A. Hewitt
, 2020 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 492 (4) , 5540--5560
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa136
Type: article
Thermal and radiation driving can produce observable disc winds in hard-state X-ray binaries
Nick Higginbottom,
Christian Knigge,
Stuart A. Sim,
Knox S. Long,
James H. Matthews,
Henrietta A. Hewitt,
Edward J. Parkinson,
& Sam W. Mangham
, 2020 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 492 (4) , 5271--5279
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa209
Type: article
The destruction and recreation of the X-ray corona in a changing-look active galactic nucleus
Diego Altamirano
, 2020 , The Astrophysical Journal Letters , 898 (1)
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab91a1
Type: article