Chris Richardson
Associate Professor of Astrophysics
Department: Physics
Email: crichardson17@elon.edu
Phone number: (336) 278-6281
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Education
Ph.D. Astrophysics, Michigan State University
M.S. Astrophysics, Michigan State University
B.S. Physics and Applied Physics, Eastern Illinois University
- Magna Cum Laude
- University Honors
Grants Awarded
"Elucidating the Nature of Intermediate Mass Black Holes in Local Dwarf Galaxies", PI: Chris Richardson, NASA Research Initiation Award, 2025, $300,000
"Compact Objects in Dwarf Galaxies: A Missing Piece to Elucidate Galaxy Evolution", PIs: Chris Richardson and Vianney Lebouteiller, FACE Foundation, Transatlantic Partnership Grant, 2021, $20,000.
Publications
* asterisk denotes undergraduate researcher
- Richardson C. T., Wels J.*, Garofali K., Levanti J. M.*, Lebouteiller V., Lehmer B., Basu-Zych A., Berg D., Bellovary J. M., Chisholm J., Kannappan S. J., Lambrides E., Polimera M. S., Ramambason L., Varese M., Vivona T.*, "Emission Line Diagnostics for IMBHs in Dwarf Galaxies: Accounting for BH Seeding and X-ray Binary Excitation", ApJ, accepted
- Mingozzi M., Garcia Del Valle-Espinosa M., James B. L., Rickards Vaught R., Hayes M., Amorin R., Leitherer C., Aloisi A., Hunt L., Law D., Richardson C. T., et al., ”Exploring the mysterious high-ionization source powering [Ne V] in high-z analog SBS0335-052 E with JWST/MIRI”, 2025, ApJ, 985, 253
- Varese M., Lebouteiller V., Ramambason L., Galliano F., Richardson C. T., Madden S. C., "Probing the heating of the neutral atomic interstellar medium in the Dwarf Galaxy Survey through infrared cooling lines," 2025, A& A, 693, 147
- Lebouteiller V., Richardson C. T., Polimera M. S., Carr D. S., Hutchens Z. L., Kannappan S. J., Ramambason L., Moffett A. J., Varese M., Madden S. C., "Recovering the properties of the interstellar medium through integrated spectroscopy: application to the z ∼0 ECO volume-limited star-forming galaxy sample", 2025, A&A, 695, 31
- Vizcarra C. L., Trainor R., McDonald A. R., Richardson C. T., Potoyan D., Nash J. A., Lundgren B., Luchko T., Hocky G. M., Foley J. M., Atherton T. J., Stokes G. Y., "Multidisciplinary network of professors tackle the challenges of incorporating interactive coding exercises into university-level science courses", 2024, Nature Comp. Sci., 4, 803
- Chisholm, J., Berg, D. A., Endsley, R., Gazagnes, S., Richardson, C. T., Lambrides, E., Greene, J., Finkelstein, S., Flury, S., Guseva, N. G., Henry, A., Hutchison, T. A., Izotov, Y. I., Marques-Chaves, R., Oesch, P., Papovich, C., Saldana-Lopez, A., Schaerer, D., Stephenson, M. G., "[Ne v] emission from a faint epoch of reionization-era galaxy: evidence for a narrow-line intermediate mass black hole", 2024, MNRAS, 534, 2633
Awards
- Japheth E. Rawls Endowed Professorship for Undergraduate Research
- Elon College Excellence in Research Award