Hans‐Walter Rix
Impact in
- Instrumentation top 0.01%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
- Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.01%
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
Papers in
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- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 225
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 221
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 107
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 94
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 60
- Astro and Planetary Science 22
- Instrumentation 189
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 189
- Co-authors
- Luis C. Ho (23 shared papers)Chien Y. Peng (13 shared papers)Chris Impey (4 shared papers)Eric F. Bell (47 shared papers)Kareem El-Badry (26 shared papers)Christian Wolf (24 shared papers)Roeland P. van der Marel (19 shared papers)A. Borch (17 shared papers)
- Journals
- The Astrophysical Journal (161 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (45 papers)The Astronomical Journal (36 papers)Astronomy and Astrophysics (24 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Letters (16 papers)
- Partner nations
- GermanyUnited StatesUnited Kingdom
In The Last Decade
Hans‐Walter Rix
341 papers receiving 23.3k citations
Hans‐Walter Rix's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 104
- Instrumentation 12.2k
- Astronomy and Astrophysics 23.9k
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics 2.3k
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 591
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 752
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Co-authors
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All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 351 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Detailed Structural Decomposition of Galaxy Images Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 1612 |
| 2 | DETAILED DECOMPOSITION OF GALAXY IMAGES. II. BEYOND AXISYMMETRIC MODELS Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 991 |
| 3 | An 800-million-solar-mass black hole in a significantly neutral Universe at a redshift of 7.5 Hit paper breakdown → | 2017 | 682 |
| 4 | Nearly 5000 Distant Early‐Type Galaxies in COMBO‐17: A Red Sequence and Its Evolution sincez ∼ 1 Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 678 |
| 5 | The Milky Way’s Circular Velocity Curve to 60 kpc and an Estimate of the Dark Matter Halo Mass from the Kinematics of ∼2400 SDSS Blue Horizontal‐Branch Stars Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 454 |
| 6 | THE STAR FORMATION HISTORY OF MASS-SELECTED GALAXIES IN THE COSMOS FIELD Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 360 |
| 7 | 2002 | 336 | |
| 8 | 2009 | 315 | |
| 9 | A million binaries from Gaia eDR3: sample selection and validation of Gaia parallax uncertainties Hit paper breakdown → | 2021 | 297 |
| 10 | THE SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF MONO-ABUNDANCE SUB-POPULATIONS OF THE MILKY WAY DISK Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 296 |
| 11 | 2001 | 294 | |
| 12 | 2005 | 282 | |
| 13 | 2011 | 268 | |
| 14 | Galactic reddening in 3D from stellar photometry – an improved map Hit paper breakdown → | 2018 | 266 |
| 15 | 2004 | 264 | |
| 16 | 2008 | 259 | |
| 17 | 2003 | 247 | |
| 18 | 2006 | 231 | |
| 19 | 2010 | 228 | |
| 20 | 2003 | 224 |
About Hans‐Walter Rix
Hans‐Walter Rix is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 351 papers that have together received 24.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (225 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (221 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (189 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (107 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (94 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (60 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (25 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (22 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (12.2k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (23.9k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (2.3k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (591 citations) and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (752 citations). Hans‐Walter Rix has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Luis C. Ho, Chien Y. Peng, Chris Impey, Eric F. Bell, Kareem El-Badry, Christian Wolf, Roeland P. van der Marel, A. Borch, David W. Hogg and Fabian Walter. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astronomical Journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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