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Prof I M McHardy PPARC High Energy Astro

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Emeritus Professor Malcolm Coe FRAS, FHEA, FRCS

Research interests

  • His PhD involved participating in the construction of the UK's first  space-based X-ray telescope and, subsequently, analyzing data from that instrument.
  • At NASA, and since, he worked with other space-based telescopes to investigate the Universe at extreme temperatures and gravities, exploring the boundaries of Einstein's theory of General Relativity.
  • Since then he has also been a frequent user of international ground-based telescopes.

Professor Christian Knigge

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • accretion phenomena and associated outflows
  • cataclysmic variables
  • close binaries

Research outputs

Active galactic nuclei as scaled-up Galactic black holes
I. McHardy,
E. Koerding,
C. Knigge,
P. Uttley,
& R.P. Fender
, 2006 , Nature , 444 (7120) , 730--732
DOI: 10.1038/nature05389
Type: article
Unveiling supergiant fast x-ray transient sources with INTEGRAL
V. Sguera,
A. Bazzano,
A.J. Bird,
A.J. Dean,
P. Ubertini,
E.J. Barlow,
L. Bassani,
D.J. Clark,
A.B. Hill,
M. Malizia,
M. Molina,
& J.B. Stephen
, 2006 , The Astrophysical Journal , 646 (1) , 452--463
DOI: 10.1086/504827
Type: article