Top Cited Articles during 2005 in astro-ph

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2005 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 Thu 1-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. 1112
    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]
    [4006 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 528
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Preliminary maps and basic results
    By C.L. Bennett, M. Halpern, G. Hinshaw, N. Jarosik, A. Kogut, M. Limon, S.S. Meyer, L. Page, D.N. Spergel, G.S. Tucker, E. Wollack, E.L. Wright, C. Barnes, M.R. Greason, R.S. Hill, E. Komatsu, M.R. Nolta, N. Odegard, Hiranya V. Peiris, Licia Verde, J.L. Weiland (NASA, Goddard & British Columbia U. & Princeton U. & Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. & Chicago U. & Chicago U., EFI & KICP, Chicago & Brown U. & UCLA & SSAI, Lanham).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:1,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302207]
    [2008 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 508
    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]
    [2938 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 479
    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]
    [3144 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 443
    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]
    [3028 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 370
    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]
    [982 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 298
    Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP
    By SDSS Collaboration (Max Tegmark et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D69:103501,2004 [arXiv: astro-ph/0310723]
    [859 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 249
    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]
    [1550 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 216
    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]
    [1124 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 212
    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]
    [660 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 193
    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]
    [780 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 170
    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]
    [595 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 161
    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]
    [1185 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 155
    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]
    [977 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 154
    Cosmological parameter analysis including SDSS Ly-alpha forest and galaxy bias: Constraints on the primordial spectrum of fluctuations, neutrino mass, and dark energy
    By SDSS Collaboration (Uros Seljak et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D71:103515,2005 [arXiv: astro-ph/0407372]
    [334 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 151
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Implications for inflation
    By H.V. Peiris, E. Komatsu, Licia Verde, D.N. Spergel, C.L. Bennett, M. Halpern, G. Hinshaw, N. Jarosik, A. Kogut, M. Limon, S.S. Meyer, L. Page, G.S. Tucker, E. Wollack, E.L. Wright (Princeton U. & NASA, Goddard & British Columbia U. & Chicago U., EFI & KICP, Chicago & Brown U. & UCLA).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:213,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302225]
    [619 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 149
    A Phantom menace?
    By R.R. Caldwell (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B545:23-29,2002 [arXiv: astro-ph/9908168]
    [582 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 149
    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]
    [447 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 140
    Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) first year observations: TE polarization
    By A. Kogut, D.N. Spergel, C. Barnes, C.L. Bennett, M. Halpern, G. Hinshaw, N. Jarosik, M. Limon, S.S. Meyer, L. Page, G.S. Tucker, E. Wollack, E.L. Wright (NASA, Goddard & Princeton U. & British Columbia U. & Chicago U., EFI & KICP, Chicago & Brown U. & UCLA).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:161,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302213]
    [623 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 132
    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]
    [600 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 127
    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]
    [394 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 125
    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]
    [1074 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 121
    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]
    [737 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 120
    The Second data release of the Sloan digital sky survey
    By SDSS Collaboration (Kevork Abazajian et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.128:502-512,2004 [arXiv: astro-ph/0403325]
    [273 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 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]
    [1012 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 117
    Phantom energy and cosmic doomsday
    By Robert R. Caldwell (Dartmouth Coll.), Marc Kamionkowski, Nevin N. Weinberg (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.91:071301,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302506]
    [369 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 109
    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]
    [535 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 108
    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]
  29. 105
    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]
    [652 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 103
    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]
    [619 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 99
    Black hole binaries
    By Jeffrey.E. McClintock (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.), Ronald.A. Remillard (MIT, MKI).
    HEP Record [arXiv: astro-ph/0306213]
    [282 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 99
    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]
    [452 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 98
    The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Spectra and redshifts
    By The 2DFGRS Collaboration (Matthew Colless et al.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.328:1039,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/0106498]
    [468 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 98
    The First data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
    By SDSS Collaboration (Kevork Abazajian et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.126:2081,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0305492]
    [368 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 98
    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]
    [483 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 97
    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]
    [803 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 94
    GADGET: A Code for collisionless and gasdynamical cosmological simulations
    By Volker Springel (Garching, Max Planck Inst. & Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.), Naoki Yoshida, Simon D.M. White (Garching, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:New Astron.6:79,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/0003162]
    [336 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 93
    Beaming in gamma-ray bursts: Evidence for a standard energy reservoir
    By Dale A. Frail, S.R. Kulkarni, R. Sari, S.G. Djorgovski, J.S. Bloom, T.J. Galama, D.E. Reichart, E. Berger, Fiona A. Harrison, P.A. Price, S.A. Yost, A. Diercks, R.W. Goodrich, F. Chaffee (NRAO, Socorro & Palomar Observ. & MIT & Caltech & Res. Sch. Astron. Astrophys., Weston Creek & Keck Observ.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.562:L55,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/0102282]
    [478 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 92
    Is cosmic speed - up due to new gravitational physics?
    By Sean M. Carroll, Vikram Duvvuri (Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U. & KICP, Chicago), Mark Trodden (Syracuse U.), Michael S. Turner (Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U. & KICP, Chicago & Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. & Fermilab).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D70:043528,2004 [arXiv: astro-ph/0306438]
    [312 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 90
    The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
    By SDSS Collaboration (Kevork Abazajian et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.129:1755-1759,2005 [arXiv: astro-ph/0410239]
    [198 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 90
    A Very energetic supernova associated with the gamma-ray burst of 29 March 2003
    By Jens Hjorth, Jesper Sollerman, Palle Moller, Johan P.U. Fynbo, Stan E. Woosley, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Nial R. Tanvir, Jochen Greiner, Michael I. Andersen, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Jose Maria Castro Ceron, Andrew S. Fruchter, Javier Gorosabel, Pall Jakobsson, Lex Kaper, Sylvio Klose, Nicola Masetti, Holger Pedersen, Kristian Pedersen, Elena Pian, Eliana Palazzi, James E. Rhoads, Evert Rol, Edward P.J. van den Heuvel, Paul M. Vreeswijk, Darach Watson, Ralph A.M.J. Wijers (Copenhagen Astron. Observ. & Stockholm Observ. & European Southern Observ. & Aarhus U. & UC, Santa Cruz & USRA, Huntsville & Hertfordshire U. & Garching, Max Planck Inst., MPE & Potsdam, Astrophys. Inst. & IAA, Granada & Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci. & Amsterdam U., Astron. Inst. & TLS, Tautenburg & IASF, Bologna & Trieste Observ. & European Southern Obs., Chile).
    Published in:Nature 423:847-850,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0306347]
    [353 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 88
    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]
    [506 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 87
    Can the dark energy equation - of - state parameter w be less than -1?
    By Sean M. Carroll, Mark Hoffman (Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U. & KICP, Chicago), Mark Trodden (Syracuse U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D68:023509,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0301273]
    [337 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 87
    Large scale bias and the peak background split
    By Ravi K. Sheth, Giuseppe Tormen.
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.308:119,1999 [arXiv: astro-ph/9901122]
    [488 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 86
    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]
    [767 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 85
    The USNO-B catalog
    By David G. Monet, Stephen E. Levine, Blaise Canzian, Harold D. Ables, Alan R. Bird, Conard C. Dahn, Harry H. Guetter, Hugh C. Harris, Arne A. Henden, Sandy K. Leggett, Harold F. Levison, Christian B. Luginbuhl, Joan Martini, Alice K.B. Monet, Jeffrey A. Munn, Jeffrey R. Pier, Albert R. Rhodes, Betty Riepe, Stephen Sell, Ronald C. Stone, Frederick J. Vrba, Richard L. Walker, Gart Westerhout, Robert J. Brucato, Neill I. Reid, William Schoening, M. Hartley, M.A. Read, S.B. Tritton (Naval Observ., Flagstaff & USRA, Huntsville & Hilo, Joint Astron. Ctr. & Southwest Res. Inst., Boulder & Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci. & Palomar Observ. & NOAO, Tucson & Royal Observ., Edinburgh).
    Published in:Astron.J.125:984-993,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0210694]
    [257 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 84
    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]
    [740 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 84
    Spectroscopic discovery of the supernova 2003dh associated with GRB 030329
    By Krzysztof Z. Stanek, T. Matheson, P.M. Garnavich, P. Martini, P. Berlind, N. Caldwell, P. Challis, W. Brown, R. Schild, K. Krisciunas, M.L. Calkins, J.C. Lee, N. Hathi, R. Jansen, R. Windhorst, L. Echevarria, D.J. Eisenstein, B. Pindor, E.W. Olszewski, P. Harding, S.T. Holland, D. Bersier (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. & Notre Dame U. & Carnegie Inst. Observ. & Whipple Observ. & Las Campanas Observ. & Cerro-Tololo InterAmerican Obs. & Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ. & Arizona State U. & Princeton U. Observ. & Case Western Reserve U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.591:L17-L20,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0304173]
    [320 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 83
    Spectroscopic target selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Main galaxy sample
    By SDSS Collaboration (Michael A. Strauss et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.124:1810,2002 [arXiv: astro-ph/0206225]
    [310 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 81
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: The Angular power spectrum
    By G. Hinshaw, D.N. Spergel, Licia Verde, R.S. Hill, S.S. Meyer, C. Barnes, C.L. Bennett, M. Halpern, N. Jarosik, A. Kogut, E. Komatsu, M. Limon, L. Page, G.S. Tucker, J. Weiland, E. Wollack, E.L. Wright (NASA, Goddard & Princeton U. Observ. & SSAI, Lanham & Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. & Chicago U. & Chicago U., EFI & KICP, Chicago & Princeton U. & British Columbia U. & Brown U. & UCLA).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:135,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302217]
    [393 Total citations in HEP]
  51. 81
    Hierarchical galaxy formation
    By Shaun Cole (Durham U.), Cedric G. Lacey (Durham U. & Copenhagen, Theor. Astrophys. Ctr. & SISSA, Trieste), Carlton M. Baugh, Carlos S. Frenk (Durham U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.319:168,2000 [arXiv: astro-ph/0007281]
    [392 Total citations in HEP]