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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: C.Knigge@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Mark Sullivan

Associate Dean-Research

Research interests

  • Supernovae
  • Time domain astronomy
  • Cosmology
Connect with Mark

Email: M.Sullivan@soton.ac.uk

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: Poshak.Gandhi@soton.ac.uk

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: F.Shankar@soton.ac.uk

Dr Matthew Middleton

Associate Professor
Connect with Matthew

Email: M.J.Middleton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Sebastian Hoenig

Head of School

Research interests

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

Email: S.Hoenig@soton.ac.uk

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

NuSTAR observations of the Transient Galactic Black Hole Binary Candidate Swift J1858.6-0814: A new sibling of V404 Cyg and V4641 Sgr?
Jeremy Hare, John A. Tomsick, Maïca Clavel, Poshak Gandhi, Javier Garcia, Brian W. Grefenstette, Dominic J. Walton & Yanjun Xu, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal, 890(1)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab6a12
Type: article
Spectrophotometric templates for core collapse supernovae and their application in simulations of time-domain surveys
M. Vincenzi, M. Sullivan, R.E. Firth, C.P. Gutierrez, C. Frohmaier & M. Smith, 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz2448
Type: article
Do reverberation mapping analyses provide an accurate picture of the broad line region?
S. W. Mangham, C. Knigge, P. Williams, Keith Horne, A. Pancoast, J. H. Matthews, K. S. Long, S. A. Sim & N. Higginbottom, 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1713
Type: article
Optical and X-ray correlations during the 2015 outburst of the black hole V404 Cyg
R.I. Hynes, E.L. Robinson, D.M. Terndrup, P. Gandhi, C.S. Froning, R. M. Wagner, S. Starrfield, V.S. Dhillon & T.R. Marsh, 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(1), 60-78
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1238
Type: article
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