2026 Douglas O. Richstone: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	76	3275	3112	1551	1443	194	46550

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Research.com Recognitions

1997 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Douglas O. Richstone is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of physics and astronomy, with a focused interest in various subfields including astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, and atomic and molecular physics as well as optics.

Their work covers several main topics such as astronomy and astrophysical research, galaxies in terms of formation, evolution, and phenomena, astrophysical phenomena and observations, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, and adaptive optics combined with wavefront sensing.

Richstone's publications have appeared in notable academic venues including OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University, The Astrophysical Journal, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Orbit-based dynamical models of the Sombrero Galaxy (NGC 4594), 2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
The Black Hole Mass and Photometric Components of NGC 4826, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal
The Black Hole Mass and Photometric Components of NGC 4826, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Karl Gebhardt, John Kormendy, Tod R. Lauer, Kayhan Gültekin, and Adi Foord.

Significant recognition in their career includes being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1997.

Best Publications

The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centres

John Magorrian;Scott Tremaine;Douglas Richstone;Ralf Bender

6343
Citations
The Demography of massive dark objects in galaxy centers

John Magorrian;Scott Tremaine;Scott Tremaine;Douglas Richstone;Ralf Bender

5135
Citations
A Relationship between Nuclear Black Hole Mass and Galaxy Velocity Dispersion

Karl Gebhardt;Ralf Bender;Gary Bower;Alan Dressler

4490
Citations
Inward Bound—The Search for Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei

John Kormendy;Douglas Richstone

3392
Citations
THE SLOPE OF THE BLACK HOLE MASS VERSUS VELOCITY DISPERSION CORRELATION

Scott Tremaine;Karl Gebhardt;Ralf Bender;Gary Bower

3234
Citations
The M-σ and M-L Relations in Galactic Bulges, and Determinations of Their Intrinsic Scatter

Kayhan Gültekin;Douglas D.O. Richstone;Karl Gebhardt;Tod Lauer

2463
Citations
The M-sigma and M-L Relations in Galactic Bulges and Determinations of their Intrinsic Scatter

Kayhan Gultekin;Douglas O. Richstone;Karl Gebhardt;Tod R. Lauer

2214
Citations
The centers of early-type galaxies with HST. IV. Central parameter relations

S. M. Faber;Scott Tremaine;Edward A. Ajhar;Yong Ik Byun;Yong Ik Byun

1131
Citations
The Centers of Early-Type Galaxies with HST.I.An Observational Survey

Tod R. Lauer;Edward A. Ajhar;Yong Ik Byun;Alan Dressler

847
Citations
Black Hole Mass Estimates from Reverberation Mapping and from Spatially Resolved Kinematics

Karl Gebhardt;Karl Gebhardt;John Kormendy;Luis C. Ho;Ralf Bender

634
Citations
The Centers of Early-Type Galaxies with HST. V. New WFPC2 Photometry

Tod R. Lauer;S. M. Faber;Karl Gebhardt;Douglas Richstone

528
Citations
THE BLACK HOLE MASS IN M87 FROM GEMINI/NIFS ADAPTIVE OPTICS OBSERVATIONS

Karl Gebhardt;Joshua Adams;Douglas Richstone;Tod R. Lauer

506
Citations
The Masses of Nuclear Black Holes in Luminous Elliptical Galaxies and Implications for the Space Density of the Most Massive Black Holes

Tod R. Lauer;S. M. Faber;Douglas Richstone;Karl Gebhardt

470
Citations
Axisymmetric Dynamical Models of the Central Regions of Galaxies

Karl Gebhardt;Douglas Richstone;Scott Tremaine;Tod R. Lauer

469
Citations
Two ten-billion-solar-mass black holes at the centres of giant elliptical galaxies

Nicholas J. Mcconnell;Chung Pei Ma;Karl Gebhardt;Shelley A. Wright

445
Citations
Selection bias in observing the cosmological evolution of the M-σ- and M-L relationships

Tod R. Lauer;Scott Tremaine;Douglas Richstone;S. M. Faber

437
Citations
THE CENTERS OF EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES WITH HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE. V. NEW WFPC2 PHOTOMETRY

Tod Lauer;S.M. Faber;Karl Gebhardt;Douglas D.O. Richstone

432
Citations
A family of models for spherical stellar systems

Scott Tremaine;Douglas O. Richstone;Douglas O. Richstone;Yong Ik Byun;Alan Dressler

402
Citations
Selection Bias in Observing the Cosmological Evolution of the Mbh-sigma and Mbh-L Relationships

Tod R. Lauer;Scott Tremaine;Douglas Richstone;S. M. Faber

386
Citations
The centers of early-type galaxies with hubble space telescope. VI. Bimodal central surface brightness profiles

Tod R. Lauer;Karl Gebhardt;S. M. Faber;Douglas Richstone

378
Citations