Hans‐Walter Rix

94.2k total citations · 13 hit papers
343 papers, 23.0k citations indexed

About

Hans‐Walter Rix is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hans‐Walter Rix has authored 343 papers receiving a total of 23.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 336 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 186 papers in Instrumentation and 26 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Hans‐Walter Rix's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (221 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (216 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (186 papers). Hans‐Walter Rix is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (221 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (216 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (186 papers). Hans‐Walter Rix collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Hans‐Walter Rix's co-authors include Luis C. Ho, Chien Y. Peng, Chris Impey, Eric F. Bell, Christian Wolf, Kareem El-Badry, Roeland P. van der Marel, A. Borch, Daniel H. McIntosh and Marijn Franx and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Hans‐Walter Rix

331 papers receiving 21.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Detailed Structural Decomposition of Galaxy Images

2002 1.6k citations Chien Y. Peng, Luis C. Ho et al. The Astronomical Journal profile →
DETAILED DECOMPOSITION OF GALAXY IMAGES. II. BEYOND AXISYMMETRIC MODELS

2010 964 citations Chien Y. Peng, Luis C. Ho et al. The Astronomical Journal profile →
An 800-million-solar-mass black hole in a significantly neutral Universe at a redshift of 7.5

2017 665 citations Eduardo Bañados, Bram Venemans et al. profile →
Nearly 5000 Distant Early‐Type Galaxies in COMBO‐17: A Red Sequence and Its Evolution sincez ∼ 1

2004 659 citations Eric F. Bell, Christian Wolf et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
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

2008 428 citations Hans‐Walter Rix, Eric F. Bell et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
THE STAR FORMATION HISTORY OF MASS-SELECTED GALAXIES IN THE COSMOS FIELD

2011 356 citations Hans‐Walter Rix, C. L. Carilli et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
THE SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF MONO-ABUNDANCE SUB-POPULATIONS OF THE MILKY WAY DISK

2012 283 citations Jo Bovy, Hans‐Walter Rix et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
A million binaries from Gaia eDR3: sample selection and validation of Gaia parallax uncertainties

2021 278 citations Kareem El-Badry, Hans‐Walter Rix et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Galactic reddening in 3D from stellar photometry – an improved map

2018 265 citations Gregory Green, Edward F. Schlafly et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
A time-resolved picture of our Milky Way’s early formation history

2022 145 citations Maosheng Xiang, Hans‐Walter Rix profile →
Parameters of 220 million stars from Gaia BP/RP spectra

2023 96 citations Xiangyu Zhang, Gregory Green et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Robust Data-driven Metallicities for 175 Million Stars from Gaia XP Spectra

2023 81 citations R. Andrae, Hans‐Walter Rix et al. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series profile →
The Small Sizes and High Implied Densities of “Little Red Dots” with Balmer Breaks Could Explain Their Broad Emission Lines without an Active Galactic Nucleus

2024 50 citations Hans‐Walter Rix et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	An upper limit on the frequency of short-period black hole companions to Sun-like stars 2025 ·Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Matthew Green, (unknown), Hans‐Walter Rix, (unknown), (unknown), T. Mazeh, S. Faigler, (unknown), Kareem El-Badry, (unknown), James Munday, (unknown)	0
2	Gaia DR3 detectability of unresolved binary systems 2024 ·Astronomy and Astrophysics ·A. Castro-Ginard, Zephyr Penoyre, Andrew R. Casey, A. G. A. Brown, Vasily Belokurov, T. Cantat-Gaudin, R. Drimmel, M. Fouesneau, S. Khanna, (unknown), Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Hans‐Walter Rix, R. L. Smart	25
3	Shiva and Shakti: Presumed Proto-Galactic Fragments in the Inner Milky Way 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Khyati Malhan, Hans‐Walter Rix	16
4	Robust Data-driven Metallicities for 175 Million Stars from Gaia XP Spectra breakdown → 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·R. Andrae, Hans‐Walter Rix, Vedant Chandra	81
5	Parameters of 220 million stars from Gaia BP/RP spectra breakdown → 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Xiangyu Zhang, Gregory Green, Hans‐Walter Rix	96
6	Distant Echoes of the Milky Way’s Last Major Merger 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Vedant Chandra, Rohan P. Naidu, Charlie Conroy, Alexander P. Ji, Hans‐Walter Rix, Ana Bonaca, Phillip A. Cargile, J. Han, Benjamin D. Johnson, Yuan-Sen Ting, (unknown), Dennis Zaritsky	18
7	The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury: Triangulum Extended Region (PHATTER). V. The Structure of M33 in Resolved Stellar Populations 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Adam Smercina, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Benjamin F. Williams, Meredith Durbin, (unknown), Eric F. Bell, Yumi Choi, Andrew E. Dolphin, Karoline M. Gilbert, Puragra Guhathakurta, Eric W. Koch, (unknown), Hans‐Walter Rix, Erik Rosolowsky, Anil C. Seth, Evan D. Skillman, Daniel R. Weisz	7
8	The Poor Old Heart of the Milky Way 2022 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Hans‐Walter Rix, Vedant Chandra, R. Andrae, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, David H. Weinberg, Charlie Conroy, M. Fouesneau, David W. Hogg, F. De Angeli, Rohan P. Naidu, Maosheng Xiang, D. Ruz-Mieres	85
9	No Evidence for [C ii] Halos or High-velocity Outflows in z ≳ 6 Quasar Host Galaxies 2020 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Mladen Novak, Bram Venemans, Fabian Walter, Marcel Neeleman, Melanie Kaasinen, Lichen Liang, Robert Feldmann, Eduardo Bañados, C. L. Carilli, Roberto Decarli, Alyssa B. Drake, Xiaohui Fan, Emanuele Paolo Farina, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Hans‐Walter Rix, Ran Wang	46
10	Non-LTE chemical abundances in Galactic open and globular clusters 2019 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Mikhail Kovalev, M. Bergemann, Yuan-Sen Ting, Hans‐Walter Rix	39
11	Predicting Quasar Continua near Lyα with Principal Component Analysis 2018 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Frederick B. Davies, Joseph F. Hennawi, Eduardo Bañados, Robert A. Simcoe, Roberto Decarli, Xiaohui Fan, Emanuele Paolo Farina, Chiara Mazzucchelli, Hans‐Walter Rix, Bram Venemans, Fabian Walter, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang	45
12	Action-based Dynamical Modeling for the Milky Way Disk: The Influence of Spiral Arms 2017 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Wilma H Trick, Jo Bovy, Elena D’Onghia, Hans‐Walter Rix	10
13	Machine-learned Identification of RR Lyrae Stars from Sparse, Multi-band Data: The PS1 Sample 2017 ·The Astronomical Journal ·Branimir Sesar, Nina Hernitschek, Sandra Mitrović, Željko Ivezić, Hans‐Walter Rix, Judith G. Cohen, Edouard J. Bernard, E. K. Grebel, Nicolas F. Martin, Edward F. Schlafly, W. S. Burgett, P. W. Draper, H. Flewelling, Nick Kaiser, Rolf P. Kudritzki, E. A. Magnier, N. Metcalfe, J. Tonry, C. Waters	98
14	The stellar orbit distribution in present-day galaxies inferred from the CALIFA survey 2017 ·Nature Astronomy ·Ling Zhu, Glenn van de Ven, Remco C. E. van den Bosch, Hans‐Walter Rix, M. Lyubenova, J. Falcón‐Barroso, Marie Martig, Shude Mao, D. Xu, (unknown), Aura Obreja, Robert J. J. Grand, Aaron A. Dutton, Andrea V. Macciò, Facundo A. Gómez, Jakob Walcher, R. García-Benito, S. Zibetti, S. F. Sánchez	58
15	Chemical Tagging can Work: Identificaton of Stellar Phase-Space Structures Purely by Chemical-Abudance Similarity 2016 ·Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) ·David W. Hogg, Andrew R. Casey, Melissa Ness, Hans‐Walter Rix, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Szabolcs Mészáros	51
16	ESTIMATING BLACK HOLE MASSES IN HUNDREDS OF QUASARS 2015 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Nina Hernitschek, Hans‐Walter Rix, Jo Bovy, E. Morganson	7
17	Monitoring the temperature and reverberation delay of the circumnuclear hot dust in NGC 4151 2015 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·K. Schnülle, Jörg‐Uwe Pott, Hans‐Walter Rix, B. M. Peterson, Gisella De Rosa, B. J. Shappee	15
18	Detailed Decomposition of Galaxy Images II: Fitting Spiral Arms, Bars, and Non-axisymmetric Structures in GALFIT 3.0 2007 ·NPARC ·Chien Y. Peng, Luis C. Ho, C. D. Impey, Hans‐Walter Rix	1
19	Deep BV R photometry of the Chandra Deep Field South from the COMBO-17 survey 2001 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Christian Wolf, S. Dye, M. Kleinheinrich, K. Meisenheimer, Hans‐Walter Rix, L. Wisotzki	34
20	Multi-color classification in the calar alto deep imaging survey 2001 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Christian Wolf, K. Meisenheimer, H.-J. Röser, S. Beckwith, Frederic H. Chaffee, J. W. Fried, H. Hippelein, Jiasheng Huang, M. Kümmel, B. von Kuhlmann, C. Maier, S. Phleps, Hans‐Walter Rix, (unknown), D. J. Thompson	25

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