Luis C. Ho

56.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
455 papers, 20.1k citations indexed

About

Luis C. Ho is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Luis C. Ho has authored 455 papers receiving a total of 20.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 439 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 134 papers in Instrumentation and 105 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Luis C. Ho's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (371 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (238 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (134 papers). Luis C. Ho is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (371 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (238 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (134 papers). Luis C. Ho collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Luis C. Ho's co-authors include A. V. Filippenko, Chien Y. Peng, Hans‐Walter Rix, Jenny E. Greene, Chris Impey, Aaron J. Barth, W. L. W. Sargent, Karl Gebhardt, Richard F. Green and John Kormendy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Luis C. Ho

416 papers receiving 18.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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 Luis C. Ho et al. The Astronomical Journal profile →
The Slope of the Black Hole Mass versus Velocity Dispersion Correlation

2002 1.5k citations Luis C. Ho et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
DETAILED DECOMPOSITION OF GALAXY IMAGES. II. BEYOND AXISYMMETRIC MODELS

2010 964 citations Luis C. Ho et al. The Astronomical Journal profile →
THEM-σ ANDM-LRELATIONS IN GALACTIC BULGES, AND DETERMINATIONS OF THEIR INTRINSIC SCATTER

2009 904 citations Luis C. Ho et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Estimating Black Hole Masses in Active Galaxies Using the Hα Emission Line

2005 456 citations Jenny E. Greene, Luis C. Ho The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Little Red Dots: Rapidly Growing Black Holes Reddened by Extended Dusty Flows

2025 27 citations Kohei Inayoshi, Luis C. Ho et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The Host Galaxy (If Any) of the Little Red Dots

2025 21 citations Luis C. Ho, Ruancun Li et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luis C. Ho United States	69	19.7k	5.8k	4.5k	882	554	455	20.1k
Douglas P. Finkbeiner United States	44	20.0k 1.0×	6.1k 1.1×	6.1k 1.4×	791 0.9×	410 0.7×	94	21.2k
Anton M. Koekemoer United States	63	13.1k 0.7×	6.2k 1.1×	2.7k 0.6×	722 0.8×	320 0.6×	340	13.5k
Ian Smail United Kingdom	72	18.3k 0.9×	8.9k 1.5×	3.0k 0.7×	682 0.8×	429 0.8×	332	18.6k
Gordon T. Richards United States	59	15.0k 0.8×	4.6k 0.8×	3.3k 0.7×	409 0.5×	328 0.6×	178	15.3k
Tom Theuns United Kingdom	76	18.1k 0.9×	8.0k 1.4×	4.2k 1.0×	554 0.6×	578 1.0×	246	18.6k
S. M. Faber United States	64	12.9k 0.7×	6.8k 1.2×	2.2k 0.5×	567 0.6×	484 0.9×	172	13.3k
Henry C. Ferguson United States	65	15.7k 0.8×	6.7k 1.2×	4.0k 0.9×	643 0.7×	310 0.6×	243	16.0k
Timothy M. Heckman United States	76	25.5k 1.3×	9.4k 1.6×	4.5k 1.0×	589 0.7×	734 1.3×	326	25.9k
Romeel Davé United States	65	16.1k 0.8×	6.7k 1.2×	3.3k 0.7×	393 0.4×	578 1.0×	270	16.6k
Piero Madau United States	65	15.8k 0.8×	4.6k 0.8×	5.2k 1.2×	553 0.6×	296 0.5×	189	16.6k

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Liu, Yi, et al.. (2025). Changing-look behaviour and amplitude-modulated QPO in blazar Ton 599. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(2). 1926–1938.

Wang, Jing, et al.. (2025). Connection between Nonaxisymmetric Structures and Neutral Gas Distribution in Disk Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 983(1). 61–61. 1 indexed citations

Lee, Jeong Hwan, Minjin Kim, Taehyun Kim, et al.. (2025). Resolved Stellar Mass Estimation of Nearby Late-type Galaxies for the SPHEREx Era: Dependence on Stellar Population Synthesis Models. The Astronomical Journal. 169(3). 185–185. 1 indexed citations

Das, Saurya, Ram Prasad Chaudhary, Michele Fumagalli, et al.. (2025). Baryonic Ecosystem IN Galaxies (BEINGMgII). Astronomy and Astrophysics. 695. A207–A207.

Wang, Tao, et al.. (2024). The fundamental plane of black hole activity for low-luminosity radio active galactic nuclei across 0 < z < 4. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 689. A327–A327. 6 indexed citations

Kim, Minjin, et al.. (2024). The size-luminosity relation of the AGN torus determined from the comparison between optical and mid-infrared variability. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 689. A27–A27. 3 indexed citations

Plotkin, Richard M., W. N. Brandt, Elena Gallo, et al.. (2024). Radio Scrutiny of the X-Ray-weak Tail of Low-mass Active Galactic Nuclei: A Novel Signature of High-Eddington Accretion?. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(1). 66–66. 1 indexed citations

Hirota, Akihiko, Jin Koda, Fumi Egusa, et al.. (2024). Whole-disk Sampling of Molecular Clouds in M83. The Astrophysical Journal. 976(2). 198–198. 1 indexed citations

Pearson, James F., S. Serjeant, Wei-Hao Wang, et al.. (2023). A large population of strongly lensed faint submillimetre galaxies in future dark energy surveys inferred from JWST imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(4). 12044–12052. 5 indexed citations

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Peng, Yingjie, Yipeng Jing, Xiaohu Yang, et al.. (2023). From Halos to Galaxies. VII. The Connections between Stellar Mass Growth History, Quenching History, and Halo Assembly History for Central Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 959(1). 5–5. 10 indexed citations

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Molina, Juan, Luis C. Ho, Ran Wang, et al.. (2023). Enhanced Star Formation Efficiency in the Central Regions of Nearby Quasar Hosts. The Astrophysical Journal. 944(1). 30–30. 14 indexed citations

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Wang, Jing, L. Staveley‐Smith, X. Lin, et al.. (2022). Mapping H i in the NGC 4636 Galaxy Group with FAST. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 22(9). 95016–95016. 1 indexed citations

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Tortosa, A., Cláudio Ricci, Francesco Tombesi, et al.. (2022). The extreme properties of the nearby hyper-Eddington accreting active galactic nucleus in IRAS 04416+1215. Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University). 23 indexed citations

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Dotti, Massimo, Matteo Bonetti, Daniel J. D’Orazio, Zoltán Haiman, & Luis C. Ho. (2022). Binary black hole signatures in polarized light curves. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhifu, Zhicheng He, Luis C. Ho, et al.. (2021). Evidence for the connection between star formation rate and evolutionary phases of quasars. arXiv (Cornell University). 33 indexed citations

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Zou, Siwei, Linhua Jiang, Yue Shen, et al.. (2021). Strong Mg ii and Fe ii Absorbers at 2.2 < z < 6.0. The Astrophysical Journal. 906(1). 32–32. 11 indexed citations

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Gupta, Alok C., Ashutosh Tripathi, Paul J. Wiita, et al.. (2018). Possible ~1 hour quasi-periodic oscillation in narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG–06–30–15. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 41 indexed citations

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Panessa, F., X. Barcons, L. Bassani, et al.. (2007). The X-ray and radio connection in low-luminosity active nuclei. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 68 indexed citations

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Foschini, L., G. Di Cocco, Luis C. Ho, et al.. (2002). XMM–Newton observations of ultraluminous X–ray sources in nearby galaxies. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 39 indexed citations

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Foschini, L., Luis C. Ho, N. Masetti, et al.. (2002). BL Lac identification for the ultraluminous X-ray source observed inthe direction of NGC 4698. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 17 indexed citations

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