Most cited papers from Astronomical Observatory

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What are the most cited papers from Astronomical Observatory?

The most cited paper from Astronomical Observatory is "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger" (B. P. Abbott et al., 2016), with 14,545 citations. Next come "GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral" (9,794) and "GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs" (3,658).

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Showing 50 of 60 papers. Every paper with more than 272 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,011 authors	11 Feb 2016	14,545
2	GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,124 authors	16 Oct 2017	9,794
3	GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X Open access1,149 authors	4 Sep 2019	3,658
4	LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products Željko Ivezić et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access327 authors	10 Mar 2019	3,523
5	GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access977 authors	15 Jun 2016	3,514
6	GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2 B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,049 authors	Jun 2017	2,530
7	GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,150 authors	15 Oct 2018	2,512
8	GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,108 authors	6 Oct 2017	2,195
9	GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First Half of the Third Observing Run R. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X Open access1,352 authors	9 Jun 2021	2,075
10	The Dartmouth Stellar Evolution Database Aaron Dotter, Brian Chaboyer, Darko Jevremović et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Open access	25 Aug 2008	1,737
11	A very energetic supernova associated with the γ-ray burst of 29 March 2003 Jens Hjorth et al. · Nature Open access	18 Jun 2003	1,509
12	GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M ⊙ R. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,256 authors	2 Sep 2020	1,354
13	Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X Open access1,148 authors	2 Jan 2019	1,329
14	Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X Open access973 authors	21 Oct 2016	1,181
15	Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA B. P. Abbott et al. · Living Reviews in Relativity Open access1,100 authors	26 Apr 2018	1,175
16	Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors J. Abadie et al. · Classical and Quantum Gravity Open access710 authors	16 Jul 2010	1,156
17	Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914 B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access988 authors	14 Jun 2016	1,054
18	Population of Merging Compact Binaries Inferred Using Gravitational Waves through GWTC-3 R. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X Open access1,654 authors	29 Mar 2023	926
19	Ocean Tide Models Developed by Assimilating TOPEX/POSEIDON Altimeter Data into Hydrodynamical Model: A Global Model and a Regional Model around Japan Koji Matsumoto, Takashi Takanezawa, M. Ooe · Journal of Oceanography	Oct 2000	925
20	Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1 B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access1,143 authors	20 Nov 2019	848
21	Tests of general relativity with binary black holes from the second LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog R. Abbott et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access1,347 authors	15 Jun 2021	807
22	Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap Abbas Askar et al. · Classical and Quantum Gravity Open access204 authors	19 Jun 2019	777
23	GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access959 authors	31 Mar 2016	774
24	Subaru Prime Focus Camera — Suprime-Cam Satoshi Miyazaki, Yutaka Komiyama, M. Sekiguchi et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Open access	25 Dec 2002	726
25	GW190412: Observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses R. Abbott et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access1,255 authors	24 Aug 2020	686
26	Tests of General Relativity with GW170817 B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,146 authors	Jul 2019	661
27	GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access980 authors	7 Jun 2016	516
28	GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run R. Abbott et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access1,431 authors	5 Jan 2024	499
29	A Model of Spectral Albedo of Particulate Surfaces: Implications for Optical Properties of the Moon Yurij G. Shkuratov, Larissa V. Starukhina, H. Hoffmann et al. · Icarus	Feb 1999	468
30	Monte Carlo Simulator and Ancillary Response Generator of Suzaku XRT/XIS System for Spatially Extended Source Analysis Yoshitaka Ishisaki et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Open access	30 Jan 2007	467
31	Upper limits on the isotropic gravitational-wave background from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run R. Abbott et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access1,587 authors	23 Jul 2021	444
32	The SCUBA Half-Degree Extragalactic Survey - II. Submillimetre maps, catalogue and number counts K. E. K. Coppin et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access	27 Sep 2006	437
33	The dust covering factor in active galactic nuclei Marko Stalevski, Cláudio Ricci, Yoshihiro Ueda et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access	Mar 2016	428
34	Crustal velocity field of southwest Japan: Subduction and arc‐arc collision S. Miyazaki, Kosuke Heki · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres Open access	10 Mar 2001	423
35	3D radiative transfer modelling of the dusty tori around active galactic nuclei as a clumpy two-phase medium Marko Stalevski, Jacopo Fritz, M. Baes et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access	6 Feb 2012	412
36	The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics System: Enabling High-Contrast Imaging on Solar-System Scales Nemanja Jovanović et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Open access	31 Aug 2015	404
37	The SDSS Damped Lyα Survey: Data Release 3 Jason Xavier Prochaska, S. Herbert-Fort, Arthur M. Wolfe · The Astrophysical Journal Open access	6 Dec 2005	404
38	The Hard X-ray Telescope (HXT) for the SOLAR-A mission Takeo Kosugi, Kazuo Makishima, T. Murakami et al. · Solar Physics	Nov 1991	398
39	Numerical Simulation of Solar Coronal X-Ray Jets Based on the Magnetic Reconnection Model T. Yokoyama, Kazunari Shibata · Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan	Apr 1996	392
40	High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS) for the Subaru Telescope Kunio Noguchi, Wako Aoki, Satoshi Kawanomoto et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan	25 Dec 2002	380
41	DIFFUSE Lyα EMITTING HALOS: A GENERIC PROPERTY OF HIGH-REDSHIFT STAR-FORMING GALAXIES Charles C. Steidel, M. Bogosavljević, Alice E. Shapley et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access	19 Jul 2011	375
42	FOCAS: The Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph for the Subaru Telescope Nobunari Kashikawa, Kentaro Aoki, Ryo Asai et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan	25 Dec 2002	347
43	Theoretical Limits on Extrasolar Terrestrial Planet Detection with Coronagraphs Olivier Guyon, Eugene A. Pluzhnik, Marc Jason Kuchner et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Open access	Nov 2006	341
44	S$\mathsf{^4}$N: A spectroscopic survey of stars in the solar neighborhood C. Allende Prieto, P. S. Barklem, D. L. Lambert et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics Open access	14 May 2004	338
45	THE GASEOUS ENVIRONMENT OF HIGH-zGALAXIES: PRECISION MEASUREMENTS OF NEUTRAL HYDROGEN IN THE CIRCUMGALACTIC MEDIUM OFz∼ 2-3 GALAXIES IN THE KECK BARYONIC STRUCTURE SURVEY Gwen C. Rudie, Charles C. Steidel, Ryan F. Trainor et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access	17 Apr 2012	337
46	Search for the isotropic stochastic background using data from Advanced LIGO’s second observing run B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access1,134 authors	4 Sep 2019	327
47	ON THE (NON)EVOLUTION OF H I GAS IN GALAXIES OVER COSMIC TIME Jason Xavier Prochaska, Arthur M. Wolfe · The Astrophysical Journal Open access	24 Apr 2009	325
48	Atlas and Catalog of Dark Clouds Based on Digitized Sky Survey I Kazuhito Dobashi, Hayato Uehara, Ryo Kandori et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan	28 Feb 2005	325
49	EFFICIENT THREE-DIMENSIONAL NLTE DUST RADIATIVE TRANSFER WITH SKIRT M. Baes, J. Verstappen, Ilse De Looze et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Open access	30 Sep 2011	323
50	Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO’s First Observing Run B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access995 authors	24 Mar 2017	321

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