Andrew King (astrophysicist)

Andrew Robert King
Born	(1947-02-19) 19 February 1947 (age 78)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Awards	Eddington Medal (2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics
Institutions	University of Leicester University College London University of Hamburg
Doctoral advisor	George Ellis

Andrew Robert King (born 1947) is a British astrophysicist and Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester. ^{[1] [2]} His previous institutions have been University College London and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Hamburg. He has held visiting positions at the Observatoire de Paris, the Astronomical Institute of the University of Amsterdam, as well as being a visiting professor at Leiden University. ^[1] He has served as Editor and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the international astronomy journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ^[3]

His research started with his PhD in relativistic cosmology, working with his supervisor George F. R. Ellis at the University of Cambridge. ^[1] He also worked with Stephen Hawking. ^[4] He has worked in the fields of general relativity, binary star evolution, accretion discs and active galactic nuclei. ^[5]

In 2014 he received the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society "for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics". ^[6]

Selected publications

Books

• Frank, Juhan; Andrew King; Derek Raine (2002) [1985]. Accretion Power in Astrophysics (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-62957-7.
• Pringle, James E.; Andrew King (2007). Astrophysical Flows. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-139-46444-4.
• King, Andrew (2012). Stars: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-163384-3.

Papers

• King, A. R.; Ellis, G. F. R. (1973). "Tilted homogeneous cosmological models". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 31 (3): 209–242. Bibcode:1973CMaPh..31..209K. doi:10.1007/BF01646266. ISSN   0010-3616. S2CID   120680577.
• King, A. R. (1988). "The Evolution of Compact Binaries". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 29: 1–25. Bibcode:1988QJRAS..29....1K.
• King, A. R.; Davies, M. B.; Ward, M. J.; Fabbiano, G.; Elvis, M. (2001). "Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources in External Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 552 (2): L109. arXiv: astro-ph/0104333 . Bibcode:2001ApJ...552L.109K. doi:10.1086/320343. hdl:2381/749. ISSN   1538-4357. S2CID   17364247.
• King, Andrew (2003). "Black Holes, Galaxy Formation, and the MBH-σ Relation". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 596 (1): L27 –L29. arXiv: astro-ph/0308342 . Bibcode:2003ApJ...596L..27K. doi:10.1086/379143. ISSN   1538-4357. S2CID   9507887.
• King, A. R.; Pringle, J. E. (2006). "Growing supermassive black holes by chaotic accretion". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 373 (1): L90 –L92. arXiv: astro-ph/0609598 . Bibcode:2006MNRAS.373L..90K. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2006.00249.x . ISSN   1745-3925. S2CID   14909546.
• King, A. R.; Pringle, J. E.; Hofmann, J. A. (2008). "The evolution of black hole mass and spin in active galactic nuclei". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 385 (3): 1621–1627. arXiv: 0801.1564 . Bibcode:2008MNRAS.385.1621K. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.12943.x . ISSN   0035-8711. S2CID   17182427.
• King, Andrew; Pounds, Ken (2015). "Powerful Outflows and Feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 53 (1): 115–154. arXiv: 1503.05206 . Bibcode:2015ARA&A..53..115K. doi:10.1146/annurev-astro-082214-122316. S2CID   118494522.

References

1. "Professor Andrew King". University of Leicester. Archived from the original on 8 July 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
2. "Contact us | Astrophysics". University of Leicester. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
3. "MNRAS Editorial Board". Oxford Journals. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
4. Hawking, S. W.; King, A. T.; McCarthy, P. J. (1976). "A new topology for curved space-time which incorporates the causal, differential, and conformal structures" (PDF). Journal of Mathematical Physics. 17 (2): 174. Bibcode:1976JMP....17..174H. doi:10.1063/1.522874.
5. "Andrew King ADS Library". SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
6. "Winners of the 2014 awards, medals and prizes – full details". Royal Astronomical Society . Retrieved 30 June 2016.