Top Cited Articles of All Time (1996 edition) in astro-ph

Top Cited Articles of All Time (1996 edition) in astro-ph

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (1996 edition) in the astro-ph archive

Keep in mind that citation counts can never be exact, there is something like a 5% error in most of these numbers. Please do not fret about number 32 versus 33, as this is often not a statistically significant difference. Remember the detailed warning about the accuracy of these counts.

Also note that the counts shown, and used in the rankings, are the counts as of Wed 7-Mar-2007. Further, the counts shown by the ranking are only the cites satisfying the criteria for that list. Actual citation numbers in the database may change as corrections are made and papers are added, the links will take you to the updated numbers. The lists, however, will not update.

  1. 146
    The Cold dark matter density perturbation
    By Andrew R. Liddle (Sussex U.), David H. Lyth (Lancaster U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.231:1-105,1993 [arXiv: astro-ph/9303019]
    [480 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 140
    Reconstructing the linear power spectrum of cosmological mass fluctuations
    By J.A. Peacock (Royal Observ., Edinburgh), S.J. Dodds (Edinburgh U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.267:1020-1034,1994< /a> [arXiv: astro-ph/9311057]
    [515 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 138
    Cosmic microwave background probes models of inflation
    By Richard L. Davis (Pennsylvania U.), Hardy M. Hodges (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.), George F. Smoot (LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley, Space Sci. Dept. & UC, Berkeley, CfPA), Paul J. Steinhardt (Pennsylvania U.), Michael S. Turner (Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. & Chicago U., EFI & Fermilab).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.69:1856-1859,1992, Erratum-ibid.70:1733,1993 [arXiv: astro-ph/9207001]
    [193 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 129
    Structure formation with cold plus hot dark matter
    By Anatoly Klypin (Kansas U.), John Holtzman (Lowell Observ.), Joel Primack, Eniko Regos (UC, Santa Cruz).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.416:1-16,1993 [arXiv: astro-ph/9305011]
    [195 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 120
    Big bang nucleosynthesis and the baryon density of the universe
    By Craig J. Copi (Chicago U. & Fermilab), David N. Schramm, Michael S. Turner (Chicago U. & Fermilab & Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. & Chicago U., EFI).
    Published in:Science 267:192-199,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9407006]
    [252 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 108
    Cosmic temperature fluctuations from two years of COBE differential microwave radiometers observations
    By C.L. Bennett, A. Kogut, G. Hinshaw, A.J. Banday, E.L. Wright, K. Gorski, D.T. Wilkinson, R. Weiss, George F. Smoot, S.S. Meyer, John C. Mather, P. Lubin, K. Loewenstein, C. Lineweaver, P. Keegstra, E. Kaita, P.D. Jackson, E.S. Cheng (NASA, Goddard & Universities Space Research Assoc. & UCLA & Princeton U. & MIT, LNS & LBL, Berkeley & Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. & UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.436:423-442,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9401012]
    [174 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 107
    COBE, gravitational waves, inflation and extended inflation
    By Andrew R. Liddle (Sussex U.), David H. Lyth (Lancaster U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B291:391-398,1992 [arXiv: astro-ph/9208007]
    [227 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 103
    Cold + hot dark matter cosmology with m (muon-neutrino) approximates m (tau-neutrino) approximates 2.4-eV
    By Joel R. Primack (UC, Santa Cruz), Jon Holtzman (Lowell Observ.), Anatoly Klypin (New Mexico State U.), David O. Caldwell (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.74:2160-2163,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9411020]
    [274 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 87
    Dynamics of cosmic flows
    By Avishai Dekel (Hebrew U.).
    Published in:Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys.32:371-418,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9401022]
    [180 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 72
    Experimental limits on the dark matter halo of the galaxy from gravitational microlensing
    By MACHO Collaboration (C. Alcock et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.74:2867-2871,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9501091]
    [117 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 71
    How many solar neutrino experiments are wrong?
    By John N. Bahcall (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B338:276-281,1994, Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.38:98-103,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9407048]
    [126 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 69
    Hybrid inflation
    By Andrei D. Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D49:748-754,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9307002]
    [539 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 67
    Measuring cosmological parameters with cosmic microwave background experiments
    By J.Richard Bond (Canadian Inst. Theor. Astrophys.), Robert Crittenden, Richard L. Davis (Pennsylvania U.), George Efstathiou (Oxford U.), Paul J. Steinhardt (Pennsylvania U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.72:13-16,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9309041]
    [120 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 66
    The optical depth to gravitational microlensing in the direction of the galactic bulge
    By A. Udalski, M. Szymanski, K.Z. Stanek, J. Kaluzny, M. Kubiak, M. Mateo, W. Krzeminski, B. Paczynski, R. Venkat (Warsaw U. Observ. & Princeton U. Observ. & Michigan U. & Las Campanas Observ. & Case Western Reserve U.).
    Published in:Acta Astron.44:165-189,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9407014]
    [145 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 66
    The Imprint of gravitational waves on the cosmic microwave background
    By Robert Crittenden (Pennsylvania U.), J.Richard Bond (Canadian Inst. Theor. Astrophys.), Richard L. Davis (Pennsylvania U.), George Efstathiou (Oxford U.), Paul J. Steinhardt (Pennsylvania U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.71:324-327,1993 [arXiv: astro-ph/9303014]
    [110 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 63
    The Cosmological baryon density from the deuterium abundance at a redshift z = 3.57
    By David Tytler, Xiao-ming Fan, Scott Burles (UC, San Diego).
    Published in:Nature 381:207-209,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9603069]
    [241 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 60
    Four year COBE DMR cosmic microwave background observations: Maps and basic results
    By C.L. Bennett (NASA, Goddard), A. Banday, K.M. Gorski, G. Hinshaw, P. Jackson, P. Keegstra, A. Kogut (Hughes STX, Greenbelt), George F. Smoot (LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley), D.T. Wilkinson (Princeton U.), E.L. Wright (UCLA).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.464:L1-L4,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9601067]
    [667 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 60
    False vacuum inflation with Einstein gravity
    By Edmund J. Copeland, Andrew R. Liddle (Sussex U.), David H. Lyth (Lancaster U.), Ewan D. Stewart (Kyoto U.), David Wands (Sussex U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D49:6410-6433,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9401011]
    [458 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 59
    Constraints on neutrino oscillations from big bang nucleosynthesis
    By X. Shi (Chicago U.), D.N. Schramm (Chicago U. & Fermilab), B.D. Fields (Chicago U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D48:2563-2572,1993 [arXiv: astro-ph/9307027]
    [143 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 59
    Refined big bang nucleosynthesis constraints on Omega (baryon) and N (neutrino)
    By Peter J. Kernan, Lawrence M. Krauss (Case Western Reserve U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.72:3309-3312,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9402010]
    [86 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 55
    The Last three minutes: issues in gravitational wave measurements of coalescing compact binaries
    By Curt Cutler, Theocharis A. Apostolatos, Lars Bildsten (Caltech), Lee Samuel Finn (Northwestern U.), Eanna E. Flanagan, Daniel Kennefick, Dragoljubov M. Markovic, Amos Ori, Eric Poisson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Kip S. Thorne (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.70:2984-2987,1993 [arXiv: astro-ph/9208005]
    [204 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 53
    Assessing big bang nucleosynthesis
    By Craig J. Copi (Chicago U., EFI & Fermilab), David N. Schramm, Michael S. Turner (Chicago U., EFI & Fermilab & Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.75:3981-3984,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9508029]
    [111 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 52
    On the abundance of primordial helium
    By Keith A. Olive (Minnesota U.), Gary Steigman (Ohio State U. & Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.97:49-58,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9405022]
    [147 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 51
    From microwave anisotropies to cosmology
    By Douglas Scott, Joseph Silk, Martin J. White (UC, Berkeley, CfPA & UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept. & UC, Berkeley).
    Published in:Science 268:829-835,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9505015]
    [115 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 49
    Do galactic systems form too late in cold + hot dark matter models?
    By Chung-Pei Ma (Caltech), Edmund Bertschinger (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.434:L5,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9407085]
    [96 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 49
    Gamma-ray bursts as the death throes of massive binary stars
    By Ramesh Narayan (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.), Bohdan Paczynski (Princeton U. Observ.), Tsvi Piran (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. & Hebrew U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.395:L83-L86,1992 [arXiv: astro-ph/9204001]
    [276 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 49
    The Density and peculiar velocity fields of nearby galaxies
    By Michael A. Strauss (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Jeffrey A. Willick (Carnegie Inst. Observ.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.261:271-431,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9502079]
    [269 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 48
    COBE - DMR normalized open inflation, CDM cosmogony
    By Krzystof Gorski, M. (Universities Space Research Assoc. & Warsaw U. Observ.), Bharat Ratra (Princeton U.), Naoshi Sugiyama (UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept. & Tokyo U.), Anthony J. Banday (Universities Space Research Assoc.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.444:L65-L68,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9502034]
    [72 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 47
    Toward understanding CMB anisotropies and their implications
    By Wayne Hu (UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept. & UC, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley, CfPA), Naoshi Sugiyama (UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept. & UC, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley, CfPA & Tokyo U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D51:2599-2630,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9411008]
    [143 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 45
    Using SN-Ia light curve shapes to measure the Hubble constant
    By Adam G. Riess, William H. Press, Robert P. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.438:L17-20,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9410054]
    [173 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 44
    Neutrinos from the sun: Experimental results confronted with solar models
    By V. Castellani (Pisa U. & Collurania Teramo Observ. & Aquila U.), S. Degl'Innocenti, G. Fiorentini (Ferrara U. & INFN, Ferrara), M. Lissia (Cagliari U. & INFN, Cagliari), B. Ricci (INFN, Ferrara & Padua U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D50:4749-4761,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9405064]
    [62 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 43
    Moments of the counts distribution in the 1.2-Jy IRAS galaxy redshift survey
    By Francois R. Bouchet (Paris, Inst. Astrophys.), Michael A. Strauss (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Marc Davis (UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept. & UC, Berkeley), Karl B. Fisher (Cambridge U.), Amos Yahil (SUNY, Stony Brook), John P. Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.417:36,1993 [arXiv: astro-ph/9305018]
    [104 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 42
    Small scale cosmic microwave background anisotropies as a probe of the geometry of the universe
    By Marc Kamionkowski (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), David N. Spergel (Princeton U. Observ.), Naoshi Sugiyama (UC, Berkeley, CfPA & Tokyo U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.426:L57,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9401003]
    [101 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 41
    Weighing the universe with the cosmic microwave background
    By Gerard Jungman (Syracuse U.), Marc Kamionkowski (Columbia U.), Arthur Kosowsky (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. & Harvard U.), David N. Spergel (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.76:1007-1010,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9507080]
    [128 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 40
    M dwarfs, microlensing, and the mass budget of the galaxy
    By John N. Bahcall, Chris Flynn (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Andrew Gould (Ohio State U.), Sofia Kirhakos (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.435:L51-L54,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9406019]
    [83 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 40
    Damped Lyman-alpha systems and galaxy formation
    By H.J. Mo (Cambridge U.), J. Miralda-Escude (Cambridge U. & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.430:L25,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9402014]
    [70 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 39
    Skewness induced by gravity
    By R. Juszkiewicz (Warsaw, Copernicus Astron. Ctr. & Paris, Inst. Astrophys. & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), F.R. Bouchet, S. Colombi (Paris, Inst. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.412:L9,1993 [arXiv: astro-ph/9306003]
    [105 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 39
    Constraints on models of galaxy formation from the evolution of damped Lyman alpha absorption systems
    By Guinevere Kauffmann, Stephane Charlot (UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.430:L97,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9402015]
    [65 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 39
    CBR anisotropy in an open inflation, CDM cosmogony
    By Marc Kamionkowski (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Bharat Ratra (Princeton U.), David N. Spergel (Princeton U. Observ.), Naoshi Sugiyama (UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept. & Tokyo U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.434:L1-L4,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9406069]
    [54 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 39
    The Doppler peaks from cosmic texture
    By R.G. Crittenden, Neil Turok (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.75:2642-2645,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9505120]
    [60 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 39
    Evolution of one point distributions from Gaussian initial fluctuations
    By Lev Kofman (Canadian Inst. Theor. Astrophys.), Edmund Bertschinger (MIT, LNS), James M. Gelb (MIT, LNS & Fermilab), Adi Nusser (Hebrew U. & UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept.), Avishai Dekel (Hebrew U. & Meudon Observ.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.420:44-57,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9311028]
    [98 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 37
    Cosmic background anistropies in CDM cosmology
    By Naoshi Sugiyama (UC, Berkeley, CfPA & Tokyo U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.100:281,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9412025]
    [240 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 37
    Extragalactic ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays. 1. Contribution from hot spots in FR-II radio galaxies
    By Jorg P. Rachen, Peter L. Biermann (Bonn, Max Planck Inst., Radioastron.).
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.272:161-175,1993 [arXiv: astro-ph/9301010]
    [165 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 37
    Gravitational collapse of small scale structure as the origin of the Lyman alpha forest
    By Ren-yue Cen (Princeton U. Observ.), Jordi Miralda-Escude (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Princeton U. Observ.), Michael Rauch (Carnegie Inst. Observ.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.437:L9,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9409017]
    [219 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 36
    A Measurement of the medium scale anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background radiation
    By E.S. Cheng, D.A. Cottingham, D.J. Fixsen (NASA, Goddard), C.A. Inman (MIT, LNS), M.S. Kowitt (NASA, Goddard), S.S. Meyer (MIT, LNS), L.A. Page (Princeton U.), J.L. Puchalla (MIT, LNS), R.F. Silverberg (NASA, Goddard).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.422:L37,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9305022]
    [51 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 35
    On the origin of highest energy cosmic rays
    By G. Sigl, D.N. Schramm (Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. & Chicago U., EFI & Fermilab), P. Bhattacharjee (Bangalore, Indian Inst. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Astropart.Phys.2:401-414,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9403039]
    [112 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 34
    Dark matter in ms1224 from distortion of background galaxies
    By Greg Fahlman (British Columbia U.), Nick Kaiser (Canadian Inst. Theor. Astrophys.), Gordon Squires (Toronto U.), David Woods (British Columbia U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.437:56-62,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9402017]
    [106 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 34
    Cosmological parameter determination with microwave background maps
    By Gerard Jungman (Syracuse U.), Marc Kamionkowski (Columbia U.), Arthur Kosowsky (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. & Harvard U.), David N. Spergel (Princeton U. & Maryland U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D54:1332-1344,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9512139]
    [293 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 34
    Fluctuations of the gravitational constant in the inflationary Brans-Dicke cosmology
    By Juan Garcia-Bellido, Andrei D. Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Dmitri A. Linde (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D50:730-750,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9312039]
    [87 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 34
    Is a massive tau-neutrino just what cold dark matter needs?
    By Scott Dodelson (Fermilab), Geza Gyuk (Fermilab & Chicago U.), Michael S. Turner (Fermilab & Chicago U. & Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.72:3754-3757,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9402028]
    [68 Total citations in HEP]