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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

Prospecting for periods with LSST – low-mass X-ray binaries as a test case
Michael Johnson,
Poshak Gandhi,
Adriane Chapman,
Luc Moreau,
Philip Charles,
William I. Clarkson,
& Adam Hill
, 2019 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 484 (1) , 19--30
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3466
Type: article
Do reverberation mapping analyses provide an accurate picture of the broad line region?
S. W. Mangham,
C. Knigge,
P. Williams,
Keith Horne,
A. Pancoast,
J. H. Matthews,
K. S. Long,
S. A. Sim,
& N. Higginbottom
, 2019 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1713
Type: article
NuSTAR and Keck observations of heavily obscured quasars selected by WISE
Wei Yan,
Ryan C. Hickox,
Kevin N. Hainline,
Daniel Stern,
George Lansbury,
David M. Alexander,
Raphael E. Hviding,
Roberto J. Assef,
David R. Ballantyne,
Michael A. Dipompeo,
Lauranne Lanz,
Christopher M. Carroll,
Michael Koss,
Isabella Lamperti,
Francesca Civano,
Agnese Del Moro,
Poshak Gandhi,
& Adam D. Myers
, 2019 , The Astrophysical Journal , 870 (1)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaeed4
Type: article
Radio frequency timing analysis of the compact jet in the black hole X-ray binary Cygnus X-1
A.J. Tetarenko,
P. Casella,
J.C. A. Miller-Jones,
G. R. Sivakoff,
B. E. Tetarenko,
T. J. Maccarone,
P. Gandhi,
& S. Eikenberry
, 2019 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 484 (3) , 2987--3003
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz165
Type: article
Gaia Data Release 2 distances and peculiar velocities for Galactic black hole transients
Poshak Gandhi,
Anjali Rao,
Michael A. C. Johnson,
John A. Paice,
& Thomas J. Maccarone
, 2019 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 485 (2) , 2642--2655
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz438
Type: article