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C Knigge - Astrophysics at Southampton

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Christian Knigge

Professor of Astrophysics
Research interests
  • accretion phenomena and associated outflows
  • cataclysmic variables
  • close binaries
Connect with Christian

Email: C.Knigge@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Mark Sullivan

Associate Dean-Research
Research interests
  • Supernovae
  • Time domain astronomy
  • Cosmology
Connect with Mark

Email: M.Sullivan@soton.ac.uk

Professor Poshak Gandhi

Professor of Astrophysics
Research interests
  • Data-intensive Astronomy
  • Social Impact of Astronomy
  • Time-domain astrophysics, Black Holes, Lunar astronomy
Connect with Poshak

Email: Poshak.Gandhi@soton.ac.uk

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
Connect with Francesco

Email: F.Shankar@soton.ac.uk

Professor Matthew Middleton

Professor
Connect with Matthew

Email: M.J.Middleton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Sebastian Hoenig

Head of School
Research interests
  • Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Dust
  • Radiative transfer
Connect with Sebastian

Email: S.Hoenig@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

15-GHz radio emission from nearby low-luminosity active galactic nuclei
2018, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 616
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833233
Type: article
A high-density relativistic reflection origin for the soft and hard X-ray excess emission from Mrk 1044
L. Mallick, W.N. Alston, M.L. Parker, A.C. Fabian, C. Pinto, G.C. Dewangan, A. Markowitz, P. Gandhi, A.K. Kembhavi & R. Misra, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(1), 615-634
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1487
Type: article
A catalog of polychromatic bulge-disc decompositions of ~17.600 galaxies in CANDELS
Paola Dimauro, Marc Huertas-Company, Emanuele Daddi, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Mariangela Bernardi, Guillermo Barro, Fernando Buitrago, Fernando Caro, Andrea Cattaneo, Helena Dominguez-Sánchez, Sandra M. Faber, Boris Häußler, Dale D. Kocevski, Anton M. Koekemoer, David C. Koo, Christoph T. Lee, Simona Mei, Berta Margalef-Bentabol, Joel Primack, Aldo Rodriguez-Puebla, Mara Salvato, Francesco Shankar & Diego Tuccillo, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(4), 5410-5426
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1379
Type: article
Characterization of the infrared/X-ray subsecond variability for the black hole transient GX 339-4
F.M. Vincentelli, P. Casella, T.J. Maccarone, P. Uttley, P. Gandhi, T. Belloni, B. De Marco, D.M. Russell, L. Stella & K. O'Brien, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(4), 4524-4533
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty710
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
Evidence for hot clumpy accretion flow in the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038
T. Shahbaz, Y. Dallilar, A. Garner, S. Eikenberry, A. Veledina & P. Gandhi, 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(1), 566-577
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty562
Type: article
The absence of a thin disc in M81
2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(4), 5698-5703
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty509
Type: article