Top Cited Articles during 2008 in astro-ph

Top Cited Articles during 2008 in astro-ph

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2008 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. 924
    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]
  2. 658
    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]
  3. 500
    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]
  4. 492
    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]
  5. 491
    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]
  6. 462
    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]
  7. 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)
    [1229 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 295
    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]
  9. 288
    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]
  10. 270
    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]
  11. 257
    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]
  12. 235
    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]
  13. 208
    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]
  14. 203
    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. 199
    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]
  16. 195
    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]
  17. 188
    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)
    [488 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 186
    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)
    [423 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 180
    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]
  20. 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)
    [441 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 170
    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]
  22. 169
    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)
    [405 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 165
    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]
  24. 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]
  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. 146
    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])
    [169 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 145
    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]
  28. 141
    Observational Constraints on the Nature of the Dark Energy: First Cosmological Results from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey
    By ESSENCE Collaboration (W.Michael Wood-Vasey et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.666:694-715,2007 (arXiv: astro-ph/0701041)
    [276 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 138
    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)
    [595 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 136
    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]
  31. 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]
  32. 135
    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)
    [531 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 135
    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]
  34. 134
    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]
  35. 132
    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)
    [453 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 129
    The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Power-spectrum analysis of the final dataset and cosmological implications
    By The 2dFGRS Collaboration (Shaun Cole et al.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.362:505-534,2005 (arXiv: astro-ph/0501174)
    [461 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 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)
    [440 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 128
    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]
  39. 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)
    [270 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 122
    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]
  41. 121
    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]
  42. 119
    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]
  43. 117
    First Results from the XENON10 Dark Matter Experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory
    By XENON Collaboration (J. Angle et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.100:021303,2008 (arXiv:0706.0039 [astro-ph])
    [168 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 117
    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]
  45. 117
    The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
    By SDSS Collaboration (Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.172:634-644,2007 (arXiv:0707.3380 [astro-ph])
    [148 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 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]
  47. 114
    Three year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: polarization analysis
    By WMAP Collaboration (L. Page et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.170:335,2007 (arXiv: astro-ph/0603450)
    [455 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 112
    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]
  49. 111
    The host galaxies of AGN
    By SDSS Collaboration (Guinevere Kauffmann et al.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.346:1055,2003 (arXiv: astro-ph/0304239)
    [376 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 109
    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]