Top Cited Articles during 2008 by astro-ph

Top Cited Articles during 2008 by astro-ph

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2008 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 Fri 9-Jan-2009. 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. 558
    Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) three year results: implications for cosmology
    By WMAP Collaboration (D.N. Spergel et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.170:377,2007 (arXiv: astro-ph/0603449)
    [3249 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 498
    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)
    [3915 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 401
    Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
    By WMAP Collaboration (E. Komatsu et al.).
    HEP Record (arXiv:0803.0547 [astro-ph])
    [689 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 311
    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)
    [1227 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 298
    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)
    [5133 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 278
    The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
    By M.F. Skrutskie, R.M. Cutri, R. Stiening, M.D. Weinberg, S. Schneider, J.M. Carpenter, C. Beichman, R. Capps, T. Chester, J. Elias, J. Huchra, J. Liebert, C. Lonsdale, D.G. Monet, S. Price, P. Seitzer, T. Jarrett, J.D. Kirkpatrick, J.E. Gizis, E. Howard, T. Evans, J. Fowler, L. Fullmer, R. Hurt, R. Light, E.L. Kopan, K.A. Marsh, H.L. McCallon, R. Tam, S. Van Dyk, S. Wheelock.
    Published in:Astron.J.131:1163-1183,2006
    [634 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 274
    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)
    [1684 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 263
    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)
    [2108 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 237
    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
    [1972 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 223
    The Luminosity function and stellar evolution
    By Edwin E. Salpeter.
    Published in:Astrophys.J.121:161,1955
    [1463 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 218
    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)
    [4171 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 201
    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
    [1421 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 201
    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)
    [3983 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 200
    Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Likelihoods and Parameters from the WMAP data
    By WMAP Collaboration (J. Dunkley et al.).
    HEP Record (arXiv:0803.0586 [astro-ph])
    [310 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 196
    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)
    [1595 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 184
    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)
    [486 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 177
    The Supernova legacy survey: Measurement of omega(m), omega(lambda) and W from the first year data set
    By The SNLS Collaboration (Pierre Astier et al.).
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.447:31-48,2006 (arXiv: astro-ph/0510447)
    [804 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 176
    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)
    [440 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 168
    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)
    [929 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 166
    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)
    [711 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 164
    HI in the galaxy
    By John M. Dickey, Felix J. Lockman.
    Published in:Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys.28:215-261,1990
    [1376 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 161
    The Cosmological simulation code GADGET-2
    By Volker Springel (Garching, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.364:1105-1134,2005< /a> (arXiv: astro-ph/0505010)
    [410 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 150
    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
    [1361 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 148
    Final results from the Hubble Space Telescope key project to measure the Hubble constant
    By HST Collaboration (W.L. Freedman et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.553:47-72,2001 (arXiv: astro-ph/0012376)
    [1348 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 148
    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)
    [1009 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 147
    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
    [1069 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 138
    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)
    [1548 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 136
    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)
    [893 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 136
    The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
    By SDSS Collaboration (Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.175:297-313,2008 (arXiv:0707.3413 [astro-ph])
    [168 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 134
    On the variation of the initial mass function
    By Pavel Kroupa (Kiel U., Inst. Theor. Phys. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.322:231,2001 (arXiv: astro-ph/0009005)
    [529 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 133
    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)
    [527 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 132
    Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Data Processing, Sky Maps, and Basic Results
    By WMAP Collaboration (G. Hinshaw et al.).
    HEP Record (arXiv:0803.0732 [astro-ph])
    [208 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 129
    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)
    [452 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 129
    Galactic stellar and substellar initial mass function
    By Gilles Chabrier (Lyon, Ecole Normale Superieure).
    Published in:Publ.Astron.Soc.Pac.115:763-796,2003 (arXiv: astro-ph/0304382)
    [439 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 128
    New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z>=1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy
    By Adam G. Riess, Louis-Gregory Strolger, Stefano Casertano, Henry C. Ferguson, Bahram Mobasher, Ben Gold, Peter J. Challis, Alexei V. Filippenko, Saurabh Jha, Weidong Li, John Tonry, Ryan Foley, Robert P. Kirshner, Mark Dickinson, Emily MacDonald, Daniel Eisenstein, Mario Livio, Josh Younger, Chun Xu, Tomas Dahlen, Daniel Stern (Johns Hopkins U. & Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci. & Western Kentucky U. & Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. & UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept. & Inst. Astron., Honolulu & NOAO, Tucson & Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ. & Caltech, JPL).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.659:98-121,2007 (arXiv: astro-ph/0611572)
    [422 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 127
    The broken hierarchy of galaxy formation
    By Richard G. Bower (Durham U.), A.J. Benson (Oxford U.), R. Malbon, J.C. Helly, C.S. Frenk, C.M. Baugh, S. Cole, C.G. Lacey (Durham U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.370:645-655,2006 (arXiv: astro-ph/0511338)
    [267 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 126
    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)
    [697 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 125
    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
    [1508 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 125
    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
    [427 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 121
    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)
    [725 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 121
    Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
    By SDSS Collaboration (Max Tegmark et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D74:123507,2006 (arXiv: astro-ph/0608632)
    [404 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 120
    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)
    [759 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 119
    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
    [1168 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 118
    Three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: temperature analysis
    By WMAP Collaboration (G. Hinshaw et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.170:288,2007 (arXiv: astro-ph/0603451)
    [499 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 118
    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
    [1495 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 118
    A Catalog of Parameters for Globular Clusters in the Milky Way
    By William E. Harris.
    Published in:Astron.J.112:1487,1996
    [1020 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 117
    SExtractor: Software for source extraction
    By E. Bertin, S. Arnouts.
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.Suppl.Ser.117:393,1996
    [852 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 116
    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)
    [1027 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 115
    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)
    [472 Total citations in HEP]