Research project

Astrophysics at Southampton (Physics A - Consolidated Grant)

Other researchers:

Professor Francesco Shankar,

Professor Christian Knigge
Research funder:

Science And Technology Facilities Council
Status:

Not active

Staff

Other researchers

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: [email protected]

Research interests

accretion phenomena and associated outflows
cataclysmic variables
close binaries

Connect with Christian

Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

Deep Chandra observations of Pictor A

2016, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 455(4), 3526-3545

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2553

Type: article

The optical-UV emissivity of quasars: dependence on black hole mass and radio loudness

Francesco Shankar, Giorgio Calderone, Christian Knigge, James Matthews, Rachel Buckland, Krzysztof Hryniewicz, Gregory Sivakoff, Xinyu Dai, Kayleigh Richardson, Jack Riley, James Gray, Fabio La Franca, Diego Altamirano, Judith Croston, Poshak Gandhi, Sebastian Hoenig, Ian Mchardy & Matthew Middleton, 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 818(1), 1-6

DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/818/1/L1

Type: article

Spectral ageing in the lobes of cluster-centre FR II radio galaxies

2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(4), 3403-3422

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2194

Type: article

Centaurus A: constraints on the nature of the giant lobe filaments from XMM-Newton observations

2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(3), 3277-3282

DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2187

Type: article

The link between accretion mode and environment in radio-loud active galaxies

2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(3), 2683-2707