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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
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]

Dr Matthew Middleton

Associate 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

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 long term X-ray time lags of NGC 4051
2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1454-1459
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz489
Type: article
WISE view of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies: mid-infrared colour and variability
Suvendu Rakshit, Ansu Johnson, C. S. Stalin, Poshak Gandhi & Sebastian Hoenig, 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483(2), 2362-2370
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3261
Type: article
First cosmology results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Constraints on cosmological parameters
T.M.C. Abbott, S. Allam, P. Andersen, Mark Sullivan, Michael Childress, Mathew Smith, Charlotte Angus, Philip Wiseman & Miika, Aleksi Pursiainen, 2019, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 872(2)
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab04fa
Type: article
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
Hubble space telescope emission-line Images of nearby 3CR radio galaxies
2019, Astrophysical Journal, 870(1)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaf002
Type: article