Top Cited Articles during 2006 by astro-ph

Top Cited Articles during 2006 by astro-ph

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2006 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 Sat 17-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. 587
    Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) three year results: implications for cosmology
    By WMAP Collaboration (D.N. Spergel et al.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: astro-ph/0603449]
    [1091 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 563
    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]
    [4034 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 539
    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]
    [2953 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 272
    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]
    [674 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 255
    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]
    [3168 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 253
    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]
    [1134 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 247
    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
    [1535 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 246
    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]
    [1565 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 243
    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]
    [997 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 239
    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]
    [3052 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 216
    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]
    [2017 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 203
    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]
  13. 179
    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
    [1022 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 170
    The Supernova legacy survey: Measurement of omega(m), omega(lambda) and W from the first year data set
    By Pierre Astier, J. Guy, N. Regnault, R. Pain, E. Aubourg, D. Balam, S. Basa, R.G. Carlberg, S. Fabbro, D. Fouchez, I.M. Hook, D.A. Howell, H. Lafoux, J.D. Neill, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, K. Perrett, C.J. Pritchet, J. Rich, M. Sullivan, R. Taillet, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, V. Arsenijevic, C. Balland, S. Baumont, J. Bronder, H. Courtois, R.S. Ellis, M. Filiol, A.C. Goncalves, A. Goobar, D. Guide, D. Hardin, V. Lusset, C. Lidman, R. McMahon, M. Mouchet, A. Mourao, S. Perlmutter, P. Ripoche, C. Tao, N. Walton (Paris U., VI-VII & APC, Paris & DAPNIA, Saclay & Victoria U. & Marseille, Lab. Astrophys. & Toronto U., Astron. Dept. & Lisbon, CENTRA & Marseille, CPPM & Oxford U. & Savoie U. & LBL, Berkeley & European Southern Obs., Chile & Lyon Observ. & Caltech & LUTH, Meudon & Stockholm U. & Cambridge U., Inst. of Astron. & UC, Berkeley).
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.447:31-48,2006 [arXiv: astro-ph/0510447]
    [282 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 169
    The Luminosity function and stellar evolution
    By Edwin E. Salpeter.
    Published in:Astrophys.J.121:161,1955
    [1066 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 157
    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]
    [605 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 153
    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]
    [982 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 153
    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]
    [744 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 148
    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]
    [459 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 147
    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]
  21. 144
    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]
  22. 143
    Detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies
    By SDSS Collaboration (Daniel J. Eisenstein et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.633:560-574,2005 [arXiv: astro-ph/0501171]
    [281 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 142
    The Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) for the Spitzer Space Telescope
    By The IRAC Collaboration (G.G. Fazio et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.154:10-17,2004 [arXiv: astro-ph/0405616]
    [246 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 141
    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]
  25. 140
    The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
    By SDSS Collaboration (Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.162:38-48,2006 [arXiv: astro-ph/0507711]
    [194 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 140
    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]
  27. 140
    Three year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: polarization analysis
    By WMAP Collaboration (L. Page et al.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: astro-ph/0603450]
    [176 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 137
    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]
    [1190 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 133
    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
    [930 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 131
    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]
  31. 129
    Three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: temperature analysis
    By WMAP Collaboration (G. Hinshaw et al.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: astro-ph/0603451]
    [177 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 129
    The Spitzer Space Telescope mission
    By M.W. Werner, Thomas L. Roellig, F.J. Low, G.H. Rieke, M. Rieke, W.F. Hoffmann, E. Young, J.R. Houck, B. Brandl, G.G. Fazio, J.L. Hora, R.D. Gehrz, G. Helou, B.T. Soifer, J. Stauffer, J. Keene, P. Eisenhardt, D. Gallagher, T.N. Gautier, W. Irace, C.R. Lawrence, L. Simmons, J.E. Van Cleve, M. Jura, E.L. Wright, D.P. Cruikshank (Caltech, JPL & NASA, Ames & Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ. & Cornell U., Astron. Dept. & Leiden U. & Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. & Minnesota U. & Spitzer Space Telescope & Ball Aerospace Tech., Boulder & UCLA).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.154:1-9,2004 [arXiv: astro-ph/0406223]
    [215 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 125
    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]
  34. 123
    The Many lives of AGN: Cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies
    By Darren J. Croton, Volker Springel, Simon D.M. White, G. De Lucia (Garching, Max Planck Inst.), C.S. Frenk (Durham U.), L. Gao (Garching, Max Planck Inst.), A. Jenkins (Durham U.), G. Kauffmann (Garching, Max Planck Inst.), J.F. Navarro (Victoria U.), N. Yoshida (Nagoya U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.365:11-28,2006 [arXiv: astro-ph/0508046]
    [149 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 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]
    [1020 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 118
    The Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS)
    By G.H. Rieke, E.T. Young, C.W. Engelbracht, D.M. Kelly, F.J. Low, E.E. Haller, J.W. Beeman, K.D. Gordon, J.A. Stansberry, K.A. Misselt, J. Cadien, J.E. Morrison, G. Rivlis, W.B. Latter, A. Noriega-Crespo, D.L. Padgett, K.R. Stapelfeldt, D.C. Hines, E. Egami, J. Muzerolle, A. Alonso-Herrero, M. Blaylock, H. Dole, J.L. Hinz, E. Le Floch, C. Papovich, P.G. Perez-Gonzalez, P.S. Smith, K.Y.L. Su, L. Bennett, D.T. Frayer, D. Henderson, N. Lu, F. Masci, M. Pesenson, L. Rebull, J. Rho, J. Keene, S. Stolovy, S. Wachter, W. Wheaton, M.W. Werner, P.L. Richards (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ. & Caltech & UC, Berkeley).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.154:25-29,2004
    [192 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 117
    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]
  38. 114
    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]
    [810 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 111
    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]
    [452 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 108
    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]
    [624 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 107
    Simulating the joint evolution of quasars, galaxies and their large-scale distribution
    By Volker Springel, Simon D.M. White, Adrian Jenkins, Carlos S. Frenk, Naoki Yoshida, Liang Gao, Julio Navarro, Robert Thacker, Darren Croton, John Helly, John A. Peacock, Shaun Cole, Peter Thomas, Hugh Couchman, August Evrard, Joerg Colberg, Frazer Pearce (Garching, Max Planck Inst. & Durham U. & Nagoya U. & Victoria U. & McMaster U. & Edinburgh U., Inst. Astron. & Sussex U. & Sussex U., Astron. Ctr. & Michigan U. & Pittsburgh U. & Nottingham U.).
    Published in:Nature 435:629-636,2005 [arXiv: astro-ph/0504097]
    [173 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 106
    The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Power-spectrum analysis of the final dataset and cosmological implications
    By The 2dFGRS Collaboration (Shaun Cole et al.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.362:505-534,2005 [arXiv: astro-ph/0501174]
    [195 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 105
    The Global schmidt law in star forming galaxies
    By Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr. (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.498:541,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9712213]
    [480 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 105
    SExtractor: Software for source extraction
    By E. Bertin, S. Arnouts.
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.Suppl.Ser.117:393,1996
    [620 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 105
    The swift gamma-ray burst mission
    By Swift Science Collaboration (N. Gehrels et al.).
    Published in:AIP Conf.Proc.727:637-641,2004, Astrophys.J.611:1005-1020,2004 [arXiv: astro-ph/0405233]
    [203 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 103
    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]
    [790 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 102
    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
    [1046 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 100
    A Catalog of Parameters for Globular Clusters in the Milky Way
    By William E. Harris.
    Published in:Astron.J.112:1487,1996
    [775 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 99
    Cosmological Consequences of a Rolling Homogeneous Scalar Field
    By Bharat Ratra, P.J.E. Peebles (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D37:3406,1988
    [1233 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 99
    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]
  51. 99
    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]