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C Knigge - Astrophysics at Southampton

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Christian Knigge

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • accretion phenomena and associated outflows
  • cataclysmic variables
  • close binaries
Connect with Christian

Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor Mark Sullivan

Associate Dean-Research

Research interests

  • Supernovae
  • Time domain astronomy
  • Cosmology
Connect with Mark

Email: [email protected]

Professor Poshak Gandhi

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • Data-intensive Astronomy
  • Social Impact of Astronomy
  • Time-domain astrophysics, Black Holes, Lunar astronomy
Connect with Poshak

Email: [email protected]

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
Connect with Francesco

Email: [email protected]

Professor Matthew Middleton

Professor
Connect with Matthew

Email: [email protected]

Professor Sebastian Hoenig

Head of School

Research interests

  • Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Dust
  • Radiative transfer
Connect with Sebastian

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Supernova host galaxies in the dark energy survey
P. Wiseman, M. Childress, L. Kelsey, A. Möller, R. R. Gupta, E. Swann, C. R. Angus, D. Brout, R. J. Foley, C. Frohmaier, L. Galbany, C. P. Gutiérrez, C. Inserra, R. Kessler, C. Lidman, E. Macaulay, R. C. Nichol, M. Pursiainen, M. Sako, D. Scolnic, N. E. Sommer, M. Sullivan, B. E. Tucker, M. Aguena, S. Allam, S. Avila, E. Bertin, E. Buckley-Geer, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, D. Carollo, M. Carrasco Kind, L. N. da Costa, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, T. F. Eifler, S. Everett, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, D. W. Gerdes, K. Glazebrook, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, W. G. Hartley, S. R. Hinton & D. L. Hollowood, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(4), 4040-4060
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1302
Type: article
Supernova siblings
D. Scolnic, A. Massiah, P. Wiseman, D. Brout, R. Kessler, R. J. Foley, L. Galbany, S. R. Hinton, L. Kelsey, C. Lidman, E. Macaulay, R. C. Nichol, A. Möller, B. Popovic, M. Sako, M. Sullivan, B. E. Tucker, M. Aguena, S. Allam, J. Annis, S. Avila, K. Bechtol, E. Bertin, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, D. Carollo, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, M. Costanzi, L. N. da Costa, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, A. Drlica-Wagner, K. Eckert, T. F. Eifler, S. Everett, B. Flaugher, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, D. W. Gerdes, K. Glazebrook, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez & M. Pursiainen, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 896(1)
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab8735
Type: article
The mystery of photometric twins DES17X1boj and DES16E2bjy
M. Pursiainen, C. P. Gutiérrez, P. Wiseman, M. Childress, C. Frohmaier, C. Angus, N. Castro Segura, L. Kelsey, M. Sullivan, L. Galbany, P. Nugent, B. A. Bassett, D. Brout, D. Carollo, R. J. Foley, M. Grayling, S. R. Hinton, C. Inserra, R. Kessler, C. Lidman, E. Macaulay, M. March, A. Möller, T. Müller, D. Scolnic, N. E. Sommer, E. Swann, B. E. Tucker, M. Vincenzi, S. Allam, J. Annis, S. Avila, E. Bertin, E. Buckley-Geer, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, L. N. da Costa, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, T. F. Eifler, S. Everett, B. Flaugher, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, D. W. Gerdes & D. Gruen, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(4), 5576-5589
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa995
Type: article
A period-dependent spatial scatter of Galactic black hole transients
P. Gandhi, A. Rao, P.A. Charles, K. Belczynski, T.J. Maccarone, K. Arur & J.M. Corral-Santana, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 496(1), L22-L27
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slaa081
Type: article
First cosmology results using type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey
M. Sullivan, P. Wiseman, R. Kessler, D. Scolnic, D. Brout, C. B. D'Andrea, R. J. Foley, C. Frohmaier, L. Galbany, R. R. Gupta, C. P. Gutiérrez, S. R. Hinton, L. Kelsey, C. Lidman, E. Macaulay, A. Möller, R. C. Nichol, P. Nugent, A. Palmese, M. Pursiainen, M. Sako, E. Swann, R. C. Thomas, B. E. Tucker, M. Vincenzi, D. Carollo, N. E. Sommer, M. Aguena, S. Allam, S. Avila, E. Bertin, S. Bhargava, E. Buckley-Geer, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, M. Costanzi, L. N. da Costa, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, T. F. Eifler, S. Everett, B. Flaugher, P. Fosalba, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga & K. Glazebrook, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494(3), 4426-4447
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa946
Type: article