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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 curious case of Swift J1753.5-0127
A.W. Shaw,
B.E. Tetarenko,
G. Dubus,
T. Dinçer,
J.A. Tomsick,
P. Gandhi,
R.M. Plotkin,
& D.M. Russell
, 2019 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 482 (2) , 1840--1857
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2787
Type: article
15-GHz radio emission from nearby low-luminosity active galactic nuclei
Payaswini Saikia,
Elmar Körding,
Deanne L. Coppejans,
Heino Falcke,
David Williams,
Ranieri D. Baldi,
Ian Mchardy,
& Rob Beswick
, 2018 , Astronomy & Astrophysics , 616
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833233
Type: article
AstroSat and Chandra view of the high soft state of 4U 1630-47 (4U 1630-472)
Mayukh Pahari,
Sudip Bhattacharyya,
A. R. Rao,
Dipankar Bhattacharya,
Santosh V. Vadawale,
Gulab C. Dewangan,
I. M. McHardy,
Poshak Gandhi,
Stéphane Corbel,
Norbert S. Schulz,
& Diego Altamirano
, 2018 , The Astrophysical Journal , 867 (2)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae53b
Type: article
Accretion disk reverberation with Hubble Space Telescope observations of NGC 4593
Edward M. Cackett,
Chia Ying Chiang,
Ian McHardy,
Rick Edelson,
Michael R. Goad,
Keith Horne,
& Kirk T. Korista
, 2018 , The Astrophysical Journal , 857 (1)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aab4f7
Type: article
The absence of a thin disc in M81
A.J. Young,
Ian Mchardy,
Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos,
& Samuel, Dominic Connolly
, 2018 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 476 (4) , 5698--5703
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty509
Type: article