Top Cited Articles during 2005 by astro-ph

Top Cited Articles during 2005 by astro-ph

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2005 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 Wed 21-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. 728
    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. 507
    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]
    [2958 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 305
    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]
    [2020 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 287
    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]
    [3171 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 278
    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]
    [3056 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 269
    Type Ia supernova discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for past deceleration and constraints on dark energy evolution
    By Supernova Search Team (Adam G. Riess et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.607:665-687,2004 [arXiv: astro-ph/0402512]
    [1001 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 240
    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]
    [1566 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 212
    Stellar population synthesis at the resolution of 2003
    By G. Bruzual (Merida, CIDA), Stephane Charlot (Garching, Max Planck Inst. & Paris, Inst. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.344:1000,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0309134]
    [679 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 209
    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]
  10. 201
    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
    [1537 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 200
    Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP
    By SDSS Collaboration (Max Tegmark et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D69:103501,2004 [arXiv: astro-ph/0310723]
    [865 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 180
    Black holes in binary systems. Observational appearance
    By N.I. Shakura (Sternberg Astron. Inst.), R.A. Sunyaev (Moscow, IPM).
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.24:337-355,1973
    [1023 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 176
    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]
  14. 148
    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]
    [1191 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 140
    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
    [934 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 139
    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]
  17. 132
    Star formation in galaxies along the Hubble sequence
    By Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr. (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.).
    Published in:Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys.36:189-231,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9807187]
    [608 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 130
    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
    [1250 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 129
    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]
  20. 129
    The Luminosity function and stellar evolution
    By Edwin E. Salpeter.
    Published in:Astrophys.J.121:161,1955
    [1068 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 128
    Cosmological results from high-z supernovae
    By Supernova Search Team (John L. Tonry et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.594:1-24,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0305008]
    [598 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 128
    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]
  23. 122
    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]
  24. 120
    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
    [1265 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 120
    A Catalog of Parameters for Globular Clusters in the Milky Way
    By William E. Harris.
    Published in:Astron.J.112:1487,1996
    [779 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 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]
    [745 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 117
    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]
  28. 115
    The Second data release of the Sloan digital sky survey
    By SDSS Collaboration (Kevork Abazajian et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.128:502-512,2004 [arXiv: astro-ph/0403325]
    [274 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 111
    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]
    [1020 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 111
    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]
  31. 109
    New constraints on Omega(M), Omega(lambda), and w from an independent set of eleven high-redshift supernovae observed with HST
    By Supernova Cosmology Project (Robert A. Knop et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.598:102,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0309368]
    [450 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 109
    The 3-D power spectrum of galaxies from the SDSS
    By SDSS Collaboration (Max Tegmark et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.606:702-740,2004 [arXiv: astro-ph/0310725]
    [397 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 108
    Cosmological parameter analysis including SDSS Ly-alpha forest and galaxy bias: Constraints on the primordial spectrum of fluctuations, neutrino mass, and dark energy
    By SDSS Collaboration (Uros Seljak et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D71:103515,2005 [arXiv: astro-ph/0407372]
    [336 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 108
    Profiles of dark haloes. Evolution, scatter, and environment
    By James S. Bullock, Tsafrir S. Kolatt, Yair Sigad, Rachel S. Somerville, Andrey V. Kravtsov, Anatoly A. Klypin, Joel R. Primack, Avishai Dekel (UC, Santa Cruz & Ohio State U., Dept. Astron. & Hebrew U. & Cambridge U., Inst. of Astron. & New Mexico State U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.321:559-575,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/9908159]
    [537 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 106
    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]
  36. 103
    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]
  37. 103
    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]
  38. 103
    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]
  39. 101
    SExtractor: Software for source extraction
    By E. Bertin, S. Arnouts.
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.Suppl.Ser.117:393,1996
    [621 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 98
    The slope of the black hole mass versus velocity dispersion correlation
    By Scott Tremaine, 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 (Princeton U. Observ. & Texas U., Astron. Dept. & Munich U., Inst. Astron. Astrophys. & Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci. & Carnegie Inst. Observ. & Lick Observ. & UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept. & NOAO, Tucson & Spitzer Space Telescope & Durham U. & Michigan U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.574:740-753,2002 [arXiv: astro-ph/0203468]
    [460 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 97
    Dwarf galaxies of the Local Group
    By Mario Mateo (Michigan U.).
    Published in:Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys.36:435-506,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9810070]
    [489 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 96
    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]
    [812 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 94
    GADGET: A Code for collisionless and gasdynamical cosmological simulations
    By Volker Springel (Garching, Max Planck Inst. & Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.), Naoki Yoshida, Simon D.M. White (Garching, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:New Astron.6:79,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/0003162]
    [338 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 94
    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]
  45. 94
    Black hole binaries
    By Jeffrey.E. McClintock (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.), Ronald.A. Remillard (MIT, MKI).
    HEP Record [arXiv: astro-ph/0306213]
    [282 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 93
    The First data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
    By SDSS Collaboration (Kevork Abazajian et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.126:2081,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0305492]
    [369 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 92
    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]
  48. 92
    Standard Solar Composition
    By N. Grevesse, A. J. Sauval.
    Published in:Space Sci.Rev.85:161-174,1998
    [517 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 92
    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]
  50. 90
    Cosmological constant: The Weight of the vacuum
    By T. Padmanabhan (IUCAA, Pune).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.380:235-320,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0212290]
    [547 Total citations in HEP]