Top Cited Articles during 2003 by astro-ph

Top Cited Articles during 2003 by astro-ph

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2003 cited by papers 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 Thu 22-Feb-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. 549
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Determination of cosmological parameters
    By WMAP Collaboration (D.N. Spergel et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:175,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302209]
    [4036 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 405
    Maps of dust IR emission for use in estimation of reddening and CMBR foregrounds
    By David J. Schlegel (Durham U.), Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Marc Davis (UC, Berkeley).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.500:525,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9710327]
    [2962 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 301
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Preliminary maps and basic results
    By WMAP Collaboration (C.L. Bennett et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:1,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302207]
    [2021 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 261
    Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 high redshift supernovae
    By Supernova Cosmology Project (S. Perlmutter et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.517:565-586,1999 [arXiv: astro-ph/9812133]
    [3173 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 232
    Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant
    By Supernova Search Team (Adam G. Riess et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.116:1009-1038,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9805201]
    [3058 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 190
    A Universal density profile from hierarchical clustering
    By Julio F. Navarro (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.), Carlos S. Frenk (Durham U.), Simon D.M. White (Garching, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.490:493-508,1997 [arXiv: astro-ph/9611107]
    [1568 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 186
    The relationship between infrared, optical, and ultraviolet extinction
    By Jason A. Cardelli, Geoffrey C. Clayton, John S. Mathis (Washburn Observ.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.345:245-256,1989
    [1538 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 183
    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
    By SDSS Collaboration (Donald G. York et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.120:1579-1587,2000 [arXiv: astro-ph/0006396]
    [1135 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 177
    Final results from the Hubble Space Telescope key project to measure the Hubble constant
    By W.L. Freedman, B.F. Madore, B.K. Gibson, L. Ferrarese, D.D. Kelson, S. Sakai, J.R. Mould, R.C. Kennicutt, H.C. Ford, J.A. Graham, J.P. Huchra, S.M.G. Hughes, Garth D. Illingworth, L.M. Macri, P.B. Stetson, P.B. Stetson (Carnegie Inst. Observ. & Caltech, IPAC & Swinburne U., Ctr. Astrophys. Supercomput. & Rutgers U., Piscataway & Carnegie Inst., Wash., D.C. & NOAO, Tucson & Res. Sch. Astron. Astrophys., Weston Creek & Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ. & Johns Hopkins U. & Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. & Cambridge U., Inst. of Astron. & Lick Observ. & NRC-HIA, Victoria).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.553:47-72,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/0012376]
    [985 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 171
    Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) first year observations: TE polarization
    By WMAP Collaboration (A. Kogut et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:161,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302213]
    [627 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 150
    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early Data Release
    By SDSS Collaboration (Chris Stoughton et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.123:485-548,2002
    [684 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 136
    UBVRI photometric standard stars in the magnitude range 11.5-16.0 around the celestial equator
    By Arlo U. Landolt (Louisiana State U.).
    Published in:Astron.J.104:340-371,1992
    [1253 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 126
    Abundances of the elements: Meteroritic and solar
    By E. Anders, N. Grevesse (Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U. & Liege U.).
    Published in:Geochim.Cosmochim.Acta 53:197-214,1989
    [1048 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 122
    The Luminosity function and stellar evolution
    By Edwin E. Salpeter.
    Published in:Astrophys.J.121:161,1955
    [1070 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 121
    The Structure of cold dark matter halos
    By Julio F. Navarro (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.), Carlos S. Frenk (Durham U.), Simon D.M. White (Garching, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.462:563-575,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9508025]
    [1193 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 119
    A Line of sight integration approach to cosmic microwave background anisotropies
    By Uros Seljak (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.), Matias Zaldarriaga (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.469:437-444,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9603033]
    [1021 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 118
    A Fundamental relation between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies
    By Laura Ferrarese (UCLA), David Merritt (Rutgers U., Piscataway).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.539:L9,2000 [arXiv: astro-ph/0006053]
    [746 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 115
    The Sloan digital sky survey photometric system
    By M. Fukugita (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Kyoto U., Yukawa Inst., Kyoto), T. Ichikawa (Tokyo U., Kiso Observ.), J.E. Gunn (Princeton U. Observ.), M. Doi, K. Shimasaku (Tokyo U., Astron. Dept.), D.P. Schneider (Penn State U.).
    Published in:Astron.J.111:1748,1996
    [670 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 111
    Formation of galaxies and clusters of galaxies by selfsimilar gravitational condensation
    By William H. Press, Paul Schechter (Caltech).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.187:425-438,1974
    [1268 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 111
    Spectral evolution of stellar populations using isochrone synthesis
    By Gustavo Bruzual A., Stephane Charlot.
    Published in:Astrophys.J.405:538-553,1993
    [937 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 110
    A Catalog of Parameters for Globular Clusters in the Milky Way
    By William E. Harris.
    Published in:Astron.J.112:1487,1996
    [780 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 107
    Lyman break galaxies at z >~ 4 and the evolution of the UV luminosity density at high redshift
    By Charles C. Steidel, Kurt L. Adelberger (Palomar Observ.), Mauro Giavalisco, Mark Dickinson (Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci.), Max Pettini (Royal Greenwich Observ.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.519:1-17,1999 [arXiv: astro-ph/9811399]
    [771 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 105
    A Relationship between nuclear black hole mass and galaxy velocity dispersion
    By Karl Gebhardt, Ralf Bender, Gary Bower, Alan Dressler, S.M. Faber, Alexei V. Filippenko, Richard Green, Carl Grillmair, Luis C. Ho, John Kormendy, Tod R. Lauer, John Magorrian, Jason Pinkney, Douglas Richstone, Scott Tremaine.
    Published in:Astrophys.J.539:L13,2000 [arXiv: astro-ph/0006289]
    [656 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 102
    The Demography of massive dark objects in galaxy centers
    By John Magorrian, Scott Tremaine (Canadian Inst. Theor. Astrophys.), Douglas Richstone (Michigan U.), Ralf Bender (Munich U. Observ.), Gary Bower (Kitt Peak Observ.), Alan Dressler (Carnegie Inst. Observ.), S.M. Faber (Lick Observ.), Karl Gebhardt (Michigan U.), Richard Green (Kitt Peak Observ.), Carl Grillmair (Caltech, JPL), John Kormendy (Inst. Astron., Honolulu), Tod R. Lauer (Kitt Peak Observ.).
    Published in:Astron.J.115:2285,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9708072]
    [813 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 102
    The Evolution and explosion of massive stars. 2. Explosive hydrodynamics and nucleosynthesis
    By S.E. Woosley, T.A. Weaver (Lick Observ. & LLNL, Livermore).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.101:181-235,1995
    [805 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 101
    Cosmological Consequences of a Rolling Homogeneous Scalar Field
    By Bharat Ratra, P.J.E. Peebles (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D37:3406,1988
    [1236 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 99
    Beaming in gamma-ray bursts: Evidence for a standard energy reservoir
    By Dale A. Frail, S.R. Kulkarni, R. Sari, S.G. Djorgovski, J.S. Bloom, T.J. Galama, D.E. Reichart, E. Berger, Fiona A. Harrison, P.A. Price, S.A. Yost, A. Diercks, R.W. Goodrich, F. Chaffee (NRAO, Socorro & Palomar Observ. & MIT & Caltech & Res. Sch. Astron. Astrophys., Weston Creek & Keck Observ.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.562:L55,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/0102282]
    [482 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 95
    Standard Solar Composition
    By N. Grevesse, A. J. Sauval.
    Published in:Space Sci.Rev.85:161-174,1998
    [518 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 93
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Implications for inflation
    By WMAP Collaboration (H.V. Peiris et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:213,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302225]
    [624 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 91
    The u'g'r'i'z' Standard star system
    By SDSS Collaboration (J Allyn Smith et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.123:2121-2144,2002 [arXiv: astro-ph/0201143]
    [453 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 91
    The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Spectra and redshifts
    By The 2DFGRS Collaboration (Matthew Colless et al.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.328:1039,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/0106498]
    [471 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 90
    The NRAO VLA Sky survey
    By James J. Condon, W.D. Cotton, E.W. Greisen, Q.F. Yin, R.A. Perley, G.B. Taylor, J.J. Broderick.
    Published in:Astron.J.115:1693-1716,1998
    [798 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 89
    A powerful local shear instability in weakly magnetized disks. 1. Linear analysis. 2. Nonlinear evolution
    By Steven A. Balbus, John F. Hawley.
    Published in:Astrophys.J.376:214-233,1991
    [580 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 88
    A measurement by Boomerang of multiple peaks in the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background
    By Boomerang Collaboration (C.B. Netterfield et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.571:604-614,2002 [arXiv: astro-ph/0104460]
    [746 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 87
    DAOPHOT - A computer program for crowded field stellar photometry
    By Peter B. Stetson (NRC-HIA, Victoria).
    Published in:Publ.Astron.Soc.Pac.99:191,1987
    [935 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 86
    DASI first results: A Measurement of the cosmic microwave background angular power spectrum
    By N.W. Halverson, E.M. Leitch, C. Pryke, J. Kovac, J.E. Carlstrom (Chicago U.), W.L. Holzapfel (UC, Berkeley), M. Dragovan (Caltech, JPL), J.K. Cartwright, B.S. Mason, S. Padin, T.J. Pearson, M.C. Shepherd, A.C.S. Readhead (Caltech).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.568:38-45,2002 [arXiv: astro-ph/0104489]
    [563 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 86
    The Cosmological constant and dark energy
    By P.J.E. Peebles (Princeton U.), Bharat Ratra (Kansas State U.).
    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.75:559-606,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0207347]
    [792 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 85
    The Sloan digital sky survey photometric camera
    By SDSS Collaboration (J.E. Gunn et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.116:3040,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9809085]
    [434 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 84
    Cosmological imprint of an energy component with general equation of state
    By R.R. Caldwell, Rahul Dave, Paul J. Steinhardt (Pennsylvania U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.80:1582-1585,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9708069]
    [1085 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 84
    A Flat universe from high resolution maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation
    By Boomerang Collaboration (P. de Bernardis et al.).
    Published in:Nature 404:955-959,2000 [arXiv: astro-ph/0004404]
    [1006 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 84
    Evidence for reionization at Z ~ 6: Detection of a Gunn-Peterson trough in a Z = 6.28 quasar
    By SDSS Collaboration (Robert H. Becker et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.122:2850,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/0108097]
    [349 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 83
    The Statistics of Peaks of Gaussian Random Fields
    By James M. Bardeen (Washington U., Seattle & Santa Barbara, KITP), J.R. Bond (Stanford U., Phys. Dept. & Santa Barbara, KITP), Nick Kaiser (UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept. & Cambridge U., Inst. of Astron. & Santa Barbara, KITP), A.S. Szalay (Fermilab & Santa Barbara, KITP).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.304:15-61,1986
    [1129 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 83
    Galaxy colors in various color band systems
    By M. Fukugita (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Kyoto U., Yukawa Inst., Kyoto), K. Shimasaku (Princeton U. Observ.), T. Ichikawa (Tokyo U., Kiso Observ.).
    Published in:Publ.Astron.Soc.Pac.107:945,1995
    [476 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 83
    High - redshift galaxies in the Hubble deep field: color selection and star formation history to z\4
    By P. Madau, H.C. Ferguson, M.E. Dickinson, M. Giavalisco, C.C. Steidel, A. Fruchter (Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.283:1388-1404,1996< /a>
    [803 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 81
    Luminous Infrared Galaxies
    By D.B. Sanders (Inst. Astron., Honolulu), I.F. Mirabel (Saclay).
    Published in:Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys.34:749-792,1996
    [660 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 81
    Starburst99: synthesis models for galaxies with active star formation
    By Claus Leitherer, Daniel Schaerer, Jeffrey D. Goldader, Rosa M. Gonzalez Delgado, Carmelle Robert, Denis Foo Kune, Duilia F.de Mello, Daniel Devost, Timothy M. Heckman.
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.123:3-40,1999 [arXiv: astro-ph/9902334]
    [625 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 81
    HI in the galaxy
    By John M. Dickey, Felix J. Lockman.
    Published in:Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys.28:215-261,1990
    [896 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 80
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: The Angular power spectrum
    By WMAP Collaboration (G. Hinshaw et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:135,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302217]
    [395 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 79
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Parameter estimation methodology
    By WMAP Collaboration (Licia Verde et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:195,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302218]
    [322 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 79
    SExtractor: Software for source extraction
    By E. Bertin, S. Arnouts.
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.Suppl.Ser.117:393,1996
    [622 Total citations in HEP]