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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 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]

Dr Matthew Middleton

Associate Professor
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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

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