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Astrophysics at Southampton (Physics A - Consolidated Grant)

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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
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Email: [email protected]

Professor Christian Knigge

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • accretion phenomena and associated outflows
  • cataclysmic variables
  • close binaries
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Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

The Chandra COSMOS-Legacy Survey: The z>3 sample
S. Marchesi, F. Civano, M. Salvato, F. Shankar, A. Comastri, M. Elvis, G. Lanzuisi, B. Trakhtenbrot, C. Vignali, G. Zamorani, V. Allevato, M. Brusa, F. Fiore, R. Gilli, R. Griffiths, G. Hasinger, T. Miyaji, K. Schawinski, E. Treister & C.M. Urry, 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 827(150), 1-16
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/827/2/150
Type: article
Selection bias in dynamically-measured super-massive black hole samples: its consequences and the quest for the most fundamental relation
Francesco Shankar, Mariangela Bernardi, Ravi K. Sheth, Laura Ferrarese, Alister W. Graham, Giulia Savorgnan, Viola Allevato, Alessandro Marconi, Ronald Lasker & Andrea Lapi, 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(3), 3119-3142
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw678
Type: article
An assessment of the "too big to fail" problem for field dwarf galaxies in view of baryonic feedback effects
E. Papastergis & F. Shankar, 2016, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 591(A58), 1-13
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527854
Type: article
FR II radio galaxies at low frequencies – I. morphology, magnetic field strength and energetics
2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458(4), 4443-4455
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw638
Type: article
Testing quasar unification: radiative transfer in clumpy winds
J.H. Matthews, C. Knigge, K.S. Long, S.A. Sim, N. Higginbottom & S.A. Mangham, 2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458(1), 293-305
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw323
Type: article