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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

First cosmology results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Constraints on cosmological parameters
,
T.M.C. Abbott,
S. Allam,
P. Andersen,
Mark Sullivan,
Michael Childress,
Mathew Smith,
Charlotte Angus,
Philip Wiseman,
& Miika, Aleksi Pursiainen
, 2019 , The Astrophysical Journal Letters , 872 (2)
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab04fa
Type: article
First cosmology results using SNe Ia from the Dark Energy Survey: analysis, systematic uncertainties, and validation
,
Mathew Smith,
Mark Sullivan,
& Michael Childress
, 2019 , The Astrophysical Journal , 874 (2) , 1--30
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab08a0
Type: article
Optical and X-ray correlations during the 2015 outburst of the black hole V404 Cyg
R.I. Hynes,
E.L. Robinson,
D.M. Terndrup,
P. Gandhi,
C.S. Froning,
R. M. Wagner,
S. Starrfield,
V.S. Dhillon,
& T.R. Marsh
, 2019 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 487 (1) , 60--78
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1238
Type: article
Hubble space telescope emission-line Images of nearby 3CR radio galaxies
Ranieri D. Baldi,
Javier Rodríguez Zaurín,
Marco Chiaberge,
Alessandro Capetti,
William B. Sparks,
& Ian M. McHardy
, 2019 , The Astrophysical Journal , 870 (1)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaf002
Type: article
WISE view of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies: mid-infrared colour and variability
Suvendu Rakshit,
Ansu Johnson,
C. S. Stalin,
Poshak Gandhi,
& Sebastian Hoenig
, 2019 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 483 (2) , 2362--2370
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3261
Type: article