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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 Tony Bird

Associate Dean Education

Research interests

  • My main research interest is in instrumentation and data analysis for high energy astrophysics.
  • I am a co-investigator for the IBIS imaging telescope on the European Space Agency's INTEGRAL space telescope mission, operating successfully since its launch in 2001.
  • I am responsible for compilation of the all-sky survey from IBIS.
Connect with Tony

Email: [email protected]

Professor Diego Altamirano

Professor
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Email: [email protected]

Professor Sebastian Hoenig

Head of School

Research interests

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

Email: [email protected]

Professor Mark Sullivan

Associate Dean-Research

Research interests

  • Supernovae
  • Time domain astronomy
  • Cosmology
Connect with Mark

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 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 Matthew Middleton

Professor
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Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Time-scale-dependent X-ray to UV time lags of NGC 4593 using high-intensity XMM-Newton observations with Swift and AstroSat
Max Beard, Ian McHardy, Kavita Kumari, Gulab C. Dewangan, Iossif Papadakis, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Kulinder Pol Singh, Daniel Kynoch & Mayukh Pahari, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519(1), 91 - 101
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3391
Type: article
Measuring interacting binary mass functions with X-ray fluorescence
Cordelia Dashwood Brown, Poshak Gandhi & Phil Charles, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517(2), 2426-2435
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2725
Type: article
XMM and NuSTAR observations of an optically quiescent quasar
Claire Louise Greenwell, Poshak Gandhi, George Lansbury, Peter Gregory Boorman, Vincenzo Mainieri & Daniel Stern, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 934(2), L34
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac83a0
Type: article
Optical line spectra of tidal disruption events from reprocessing in optically thick outflows
Edward J. Parkinson, Christian Knigge, James H. Matthews, Knox S. Long, Nick Higginbottom, Stuart A. Sim & Samuel W. Mangham, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(4), 5426-5443
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac027
Type: article
Binary AGNs simulations with radiation pressure reveal a new duty cycle, and a reduction of gravitational torque, through 'minitori' structures
David J. Williamson, Lars H. Bösch & Sebastian F. Hönig, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(4), 5963-5973
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3792
Type: article