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.
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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
a>
(arXiv: astro-ph/9807187)
-
[930 Total citations in HEP]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 642
- Dwarf galaxies of the Local Group
-
By Mario Mateo (Michigan U.).
- Published in:Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys.36:435-506,1998
a>
(arXiv: astro-ph/9810070)
-
[643 Total citations in HEP]
- 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]
- 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]