Top Cited Articles of All Time (2008 edition) in astro-ph

Top Cited Articles of All Time (2008 edition) in astro-ph

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (2008 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 Mon 12-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. 5119
    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)
    [5135 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 4156
    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)
    [4174 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 3973
    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)
    [3986 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 3904
    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)
    [3918 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 3229
    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)
    [3254 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 2474
    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)
    [2481 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 2099
    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]
  8. 1592
    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)
    [1596 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 1543
    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)
    [1550 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 1364
    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)
    [1366 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 1347
    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)
    [1349 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 1222
    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)
    [1229 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 1220
    Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP
    By SDSS Collaboration (Max Tegmark et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D69:103501,2004 (arXiv: astro-ph/0310723)
    [1226 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 1204
    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)
    [1207 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 1203
    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)
    [1207 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 1144
    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)
    [1146 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 1022
    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]
  18. 1007
    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]
  19. 937
    Quintessence, cosmic coincidence, and the cosmological constant
    By Ivaylo Zlatev, Li-Min Wang (Pennsylvania U.), Paul J. Steinhardt (Pennsylvania U. & Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.82:896-899,1999 (arXiv: astro-ph/9807002)
    [942 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 928
    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)
    [930 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 890
    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]
  22. 882
    Discovery of a supernova explosion at half the age of the Universe and its cosmological implications
    By Supernova Cosmology Project (S. Perlmutter et al.).
    Published in:Nature 391:51-54,1998 (arXiv: astro-ph/9712212)
    [883 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 869
    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)
    [870 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 842
    A Phantom menace?
    By R.R. Caldwell (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B545:23-29,2002 (arXiv: astro-ph/9908168)
    [847 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 827
    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)
    [829 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 813
    Starburst99: Synthesis models for galaxies with active star formation
    By Claus Leitherer (Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci.), Daniel Schaerer (Midi-Pyrenees Observ.), Jeffrey D. Goldader (Pennsylvania U.), Rosa M. Gonzalez Delgado (IAA, Granada), Carmelle Robert (Observ. du Mont Megantic), Denis Foo Kune (Macalester Coll. & Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci.), Duilia F.de Mello (Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci.), Daniel Devost (Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci. & Observ. du Mont Megantic), Timothy M. Heckman (Johns Hopkins U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.123:3-40,1999 (arXiv: astro-ph/9902334)
    [813 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 809
    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)
    [812 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 800
    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)
    [805 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 758
    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]
  30. 754
    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)
    [756 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 753
    MAXIMA-1: A Measurement of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy on angular scales of 10 arcminutes to 5 degrees
    By S. Hanany (Minnesota U. & UC, Berkeley, CfPA), P. Ade, A. Balbi, J. Bock, J. Borrill, A. Boscaleri, P. de Bernardis, P.G. Ferreira, V.V. Hristov, Andrew H. Jaffe, A.E. Lange, A.T. Lee, P.D. Mauskopf, C.B. Netterfield, S. Oh, E. Pascale, B. Rabii, P.L. Richards, George F. Smoot, R. Stompor, C.D. Winant, J.H.P. Wu (UC, Berkeley, CfPA & Queen Mary, U. of London & Rome U.,Tor Vergata & Caltech, JPL & Caltech & LBL, Berkeley & Florence, IROE & Rome U. & Oxford U. & Lisbon, IST & Cardiff U. & Toronto U. & UC, Berkeley & Warsaw, Copernicus Astron. Ctr. & UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.545:L5,2000 (arXiv: astro-ph/0005123)
    [754 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 740
    The Case for a positive cosmological Lambda term
    By Varun Sahni (IUCAA, Pune), Alexei A. Starobinsky (Landau Inst.).
    Published in:Int.J.Mod.Phys.D9:373-444,2000 (arXiv: astro-ph/9904398)
    [746 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 723
    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)
    [726 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 717
    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)
    [718 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 707
    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)
    [713 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 706
    Unified schemes for radio-loud active galactic nuclei
    By C.Megan Urry (Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci.), Paolo Padovani (Rome U.,Tor Vergata).
    Published in:Publ.Astron.Soc.Pac.107:803,1995 (arXiv: astro-ph/9506063)
    [715 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 695
    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. 695
    The Cosmic triangle: Assessing the state of the universe
    By Neta A. Bahcall, Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Princeton U. Observ.), Saul Perlmutter (LBL, Berkeley), Paul J. Steinhardt (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Science 284:1481-1488,1999 (arXiv: astro-ph/9906463)
    [696 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 691
    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)
    [694 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 689
    Large scale bias and the peak background split
    By Ravi K. Sheth (Garching, Max Planck Inst.), Giuseppe Tormen (Padua U., Astron. Dept.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.308:119,1999 (arXiv: astro-ph/9901122)
    [693 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 677
    Using the evolution of clusters to constrain Omega
    By Vincent R. Eke, Shaun Cole, Carlos S. Frenk (Durham U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.282:263-280,1996 (arXiv: astro-ph/9601088)
    [677 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 669
    Where are the missing Galactic satellites?
    By Anatoly A. Klypin, Andrey V. Kravtsov, Octavio Valenzuela (New Mexico State U.), Francisco Prada (Observ. Astron. Natl., Ensenada).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.522:82-92,1999 (arXiv: astro-ph/9901240)
    [671 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 668
    Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
    By WMAP Collaboration (E. Komatsu et al.).
    HEP Record (arXiv:0803.0547 [astro-ph])
    [690 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 656
    Evolutionary models for solar metallicity low - mass stars: Mass - magnitude relationships and color - magnitude diagrams
    By Isabelle Baraffe, Gilles Chabrier (Lyon, Ecole Normale Superieure), France Allard (Lyon, Ecole Normale Superieure & Wichita State U.), Peter Hauschildt (Georgia U.).
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.337:403-412,1998 (arXiv: astro-ph/9805009)
    [657 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 649
    Cosmological tracking solutions
    By Paul J. Steinhardt, Li-Min Wang, Ivaylo Zlatev (Pennsylvania U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D59:123504,1999 (arXiv: astro-ph/9812313)
    [651 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 648
    Measurements of the cosmological parameters Omega and Lambda from the first 7 supernovae at z>=0.35
    By Supernova Cosmology Project (S. Perlmutter et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.483:565,1997 (arXiv: astro-ph/9608192)
    [648 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 647
    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)
    [649 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 642
    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)
    [643 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 636
    Discovery of the peculiar supernova 1998bw in the error box of GRB 980425
    By T.J. Galama, Paul M. Vreeswijk, J. van Paradijs, C. Kouveliotou, T. Augusteijn, O.R. Hainaut, F. Patat, H. Bohnhardt, J. Brewer, V. Doublier, J.-F. Gonzalez, C. Lidman, B. Leibundgut, J. Heise, J. in 't Zand, P.J. Groot, R.G. Strom, P. Mazzali, K. Iwamoto, K. Nomoto, H. Umeda, T. Nakamura, T. Koshut, M. Kippen, C. Robinson, P. de Wildt, R.A.M.J. Wijers, N. Tanvir, J. Greiner, E. Pian, E. Palazzi, F. Frontera, N. Masetti, L. Nicastro, E. Malozzi, M. Feroci, E. Costa, L. Piro, B.A. Peterson, C. Tinney, B. Boyle, R. Cannon, R. Stathakis, M.C. Begam, P. Ianna (Amsterdam U., Astron. Inst. & Alabama U., Huntsville & Universities Space Research Assoc. & NASA, Marshall & European Southern Obs., Chile & SRON, Utrecht & NFRA, Dwingeloo & Trieste Observ. & Tokyo U., Astron. Dept. & Tokyo U., RESCEU).
    Published in:Nature 395:670,1998 (arXiv: astro-ph/9806175)
    [638 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 633
    Collapsars: Gamma-ray bursts and explosions in 'failed supernovae'
    By A. MacFadyen, S.E. Woosley (UC, Santa Cruz).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.524:262,1999 (arXiv: astro-ph/9810274)
    [635 Total citations in HEP]