Top Cited Articles of All Time (2002 edition) in astro-ph

Top Cited Articles of All Time (2002 edition) in astro-ph

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (2002 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 Fri 16-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. 1283
    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]
    [3049 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 1268
    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]
    [3165 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 1039
    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]
    [2951 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 625
    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]
    [1005 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 614
    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]
    [1564 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 560
    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]
  7. 504
    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]
    [1080 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 493
    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]
  9. 490
    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]
    [774 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 488
    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]
    [667 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 449
    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]
    [610 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 435
    Reconstructing the linear power spectrum of cosmological mass fluctuations
    By J.A. Peacock (Royal Observ., Edinburgh), S.J. Dodds (Edinburgh U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.267:1020-1034,1994< /a> [arXiv: astro-ph/9311057]
    [515 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 430
    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]
    [746 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 413
    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]
    [680 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 392
    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]
    [769 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 391
    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]
    [809 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 386
    How uncertain are solar neutrino predictions?
    By John N. Bahcall, Sarbani Basu (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), M.H. Pinsonneault (Ohio State U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B433:1-8,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9805135]
    [428 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 381
    The Cold dark matter density perturbation
    By Andrew R. Liddle (Sussex U.), David H. Lyth (Lancaster U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.231:1-105,1993 [arXiv: astro-ph/9303019]
    [479 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 379
    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]
    [630 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 354
    Measurement of the solar neutrino capture rate with gallium metal
    By SAGE Collaboration (J.N. Abdurashitov et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.C60:055801,1999 [arXiv: astro-ph/9907113]
    [549 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 353
    The Hubble Deep Field: Observations, data reduction, and galaxy photometry
    By the HDF Team (Robert E. Williams et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.112:1335,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9607174]
    [529 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 343
    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]
    [745 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 330
    The Four year COBE normalization and large scale structure
    By Emory F. Bunn (UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept.), Martin J. White (Chicago U., EFI).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.480:6-21,1997 [arXiv: astro-ph/9607060]
    [378 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 325
    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]
    [563 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 313
    Spectroscopic confirmation of a population of normal star - forming galaxies at redshifts z > 3
    By Charles C. Steidel, Mauro Giavalisco, Max Pettini, Mark Dickinson, Kurt L. Adelberger (Palomar Observ. & Carnegie Inst. Observ. & Royal Greenwich Observ. & Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.462:L17,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9602024]
    [448 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 311
    Constraints on cosmological parameters from MAXIMA-1
    By A. Balbi (Rome U.,Tor Vergata & UC, Berkeley, CfPA & LBL, Berkeley), P. Ade (Queen Mary, U. of London), J. Bock (Caltech, JPL & Caltech), J. Borrill (LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley, CfPA), A. Boscaleri (Florence, IROE), P. de Bernardis (Rome U.), P.G. Ferreira (Oxford U. & Lisbon, IST), S. Hanany (Minnesota U. & UC, Berkeley, CfPA), V.V. Hristov (Caltech), Andrew H. Jaffe, A.T. Lee (UC, Berkeley, CfPA & UC, Berkeley, Space Sci. Dept.), S. Oh (UC, Berkeley, CfPA & UC, Berkeley), E. Pascale (Florence, IROE), B. Rabii (UC, Berkeley, CfPA & UC, Berkeley), P.L. Richards (UC, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley, CfPA), George F. Smoot (UC, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley, CfPA & LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley, Space Sci. Dept.), R. Stompor (UC, Berkeley, CfPA & UC, Berkeley, Space Sci. Dept. & Warsaw, Copernicus Astron. Ctr.), C.D. Winant (UC, Berkeley, CfPA & UC, Berkeley), J.H.P. Wu (UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.545:L1-L4,2000, Erratum-ibid.558:L145-L146,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/0005124]
    [413 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 301
    The Canada-France Redshift Survey. 13. The Luminosity density and star-formation history of the Universe to z ~ 1
    By S.J. Lilly (Toronto U., Astron. Dept.), Olivier Le Fevre, F. Hammer (Meudon Observ.), David Crampton (NRC-HIA, Victoria).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.460:L1,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9601050]
    [484 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 294
    The High Z supernova search: Measuring cosmic deceleration and global curvature of the universe using type Ia supernovae
    By Supernova Search Team (Brian P. Schmidt et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.507:46-63,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9805200]
    [494 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 293
    Cosmological parameter extraction from the first season of observations with DASI
    By C. Pryke, N.W. Halverson, E.M. Leitch, J. Kovac, J.E. Carlstrom (Chicago U.), W.L. Holzapfel (UC, Berkeley), M. Dragovan (Caltech, JPL).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.568:46-51,2002 [arXiv: astro-ph/0104490]
    [406 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 293
    Hybrid inflation
    By Andrei D. Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D49:748-754,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9307002]
    [535 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 289
    Cosmology from MAXIMA-1, BOOMERANG and COBE / DMR CMB observations
    By Boomerang Collaboration (Andrew H. Jaffe et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.86:3475-3479,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/0007333]
    [391 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 288
    Are gamma-ray bursts in star forming regions?
    By Bohdan Paczynski (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.494:L45,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9710086]
    [436 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 280
    Cosmological parameters from the first results of BOOMERANG
    By Boomerang Collaboration (A.E. Lange et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D63:042001,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/0005004]
    [343 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 278
    Gamma-ray bursts and the fireball model
    By T. Piran (Hebrew U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.314:575-667,1999 [arXiv: astro-ph/9810256]
    [467 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 277
    The Cosmic baryon budget
    By M. Fukugita (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Tokyo U., ICRR), C.J. Hogan (Washington U., Seattle), P.J.E. Peebles (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.503:518,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9712020]
    [475 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 271
    Cold + hot dark matter cosmology with m (muon-neutrino) approximates m (tau-neutrino) approximates 2.4-eV
    By Joel R. Primack (UC, Santa Cruz), Jon Holtzman (Lowell Observ.), Anatoly Klypin (New Mexico State U.), David O. Caldwell (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.74:2160-2163,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9411020]
    [273 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 264
    Extension of the cosmic ray energy spectrum beyond the predicted Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuz'min cutoff
    By M. Takeda, N. Hayashida (Tokyo U., ICRR), K. Honda (Yamanashi U.), N. Inoue (Saitama U.), K. Kadota, F. Kakimoto (Tokyo Inst. Tech.), K. Kamata (Nishina Memorial Found., Tokyo), S. Kawaguchi (Hirosaki U.), Y. Kawasaki (Osaka City U.), N. Kawasumi (Yamanashi U.), H. Kitamura (Kobe U.), E. Kusano (Saitama U.), Y. Matsubara (Nagoya U., Solar-Terrestrial Environ. Lab.), K. Murakami (Nagoya U. of Foreign Studies), M. Nagano, D. Nishikawa, H. Ohoka, N. Sakaki, M. Sasaki (Tokyo U., ICRR), K. Shinozaki, N. Souma (Saitama U.), M. Teshima, R. Torii (Tokyo U., ICRR), I. Tsushima (Yamanashi U.), Y. Uchihori (Chiba, Natl. Inst. Rad. Sci.), T. Yamamoto, S. Yoshida (Tokyo U., ICRR), H. Yoshii (Ehime U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.81:1163-1166,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9807193]
    [472 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 264
    DASI first results: A Measurement of the cosmic microwave background angular power spectrum
    By N.W. Halverson, E.M. Leitch, C. Pryke, J. Kovac, J.E. Carlstrom (Chicago U.), W.L. Holzapfel (UC, Berkeley), M. Dragovan (Caltech, JPL), J.K. Cartwright, B.S. Mason, S. Padin, T.J. Pearson, M.C. Shepherd, A.C.S. Readhead (Caltech).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.568:38-45,2002 [arXiv: astro-ph/0104489]
    [563 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 262
    Solar models: Current epoch and time dependences, neutrinos, and helioseismological properties
    By John N. Bahcall (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), M.H. Pinsonneault (Ohio State U.), Sarbani Basu (Yale U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.555:990-1012,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/0010346]
    [565 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 260
    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]
    [545 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 259
    Supernova limits on the cosmic equation of state
    By Supernova Search Team (Peter M. Garnavich et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.509:74-79,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9806396]
    [429 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 256
    Advection dominated accretion: A Selfsimilar solution
    By Ramesh Narayan, In-su Yi (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.428:L13,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9403052]
    [436 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 256
    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]
  44. 252
    False vacuum inflation with Einstein gravity
    By Edmund J. Copeland, Andrew R. Liddle (Sussex U.), David H. Lyth (Lancaster U.), Ewan D. Stewart (Kyoto U.), David Wands (Sussex U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D49:6410-6433,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9401011]
    [453 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 249
    Cosmological parameter determination with microwave background maps
    By Gerard Jungman (Syracuse U.), Marc Kamionkowski (Columbia U.), Arthur Kosowsky (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. & Harvard U.), David N. Spergel (Princeton U. & Maryland U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D54:1332-1344,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9512139]
    [294 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 246
    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]
    [1133 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 244
    The Star formation history of field galaxies
    By Piero Madau (Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci.), Lucia Pozzetti (Bologna U.), Mark Dickinson (Johns Hopkins U. & Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.498:106,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9708220]
    [455 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 240
    Big bang nucleosynthesis and the baryon density of the universe
    By Craig J. Copi (Chicago U. & Fermilab), David N. Schramm, Michael S. Turner (Chicago U. & Fermilab & Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. & Chicago U., EFI).
    Published in:Science 267:192-199,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9407006]
    [252 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 240
    A Recipe for galaxy formation
    By Shaun Cole, Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca, Carlos S. Frenk, Julio F. Navarro, Stephen E. Zepf (Durham U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.271:781,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9402001]
    [335 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 239
    The Cluster abundance in flat and open cosmologies
    By Pedro T.P. Viana, Andrew R. Liddle (Sussex U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.281:323,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9511007]
    [274 Total citations in HEP]