Most cited papers in Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
What are the most cited papers in Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation?
The most cited paper in Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation is "SExtractor: Software for source extraction" (E. Bertin, Stéphane Arnouts, 1996), with 11,111 citations. Next come "UBVRI photometric standard stars in the magnitude range 11.5-16.0 around the celestial equator" (4,222) and "Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction" (3,846).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 484 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SExtractor: Software for source extraction E. Bertin, Stéphane Arnouts · Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series | Jun 1996 | 11,111 |
| 2 | UBVRI photometric standard stars in the magnitude range 11.5-16.0 around the celestial equator A. U. Landolt · The Astronomical Journal | Jul 1992 | 4,222 |
| 3 | Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction Floor van Leeuwen · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 13 Aug 2007 | 3,846 |
| 4 | Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae and Active Galactic Nuclei Donald E. Osterbrock, J. Michael Shull · Physics Today | Oct 1989 | 3,833 |
| 5 | The Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) for the Spitzer Space Telescope Giovanni G. Fazio et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 31 Aug 2004 | 3,401 |
| 6 | Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies Gérard de Vaucouleurs, A. de Vaucouleurs, H. G. Corwin et al. | 1991 | 3,275 |
| 7 | Parameter estimation in astronomy through application of the likelihood ratio W. Cash · The Astrophysical Journal | Mar 1979 | 3,142 |
| 8 | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric System M. Fukugita, Takashi Ichikawa, James E. Gunn et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Apr 1996 | 3,069 |
| 9 | Secondary standard stars for absolute spectrophotometry J. Beverly Oke, James E. Gunn · The Astrophysical Journal | Mar 1983 | 2,871 |
| 10 | The SIMBAD astronomical database M. Wenger, F. Ochsenbein, D. Egret et al. · Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series | Apr 2000 | 2,375 |
| 11 | The USNO-B Catalog David G. Monet et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Feb 2003 | 2,139 |
| 12 | A new extensive library of PHOENIX stellar atmospheres and synthetic spectra Tim-Oliver Husser, S. Berg, S. Dreizler et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 23 Mar 2013 | 1,986 |
| 13 | The Iraf Data Reduction And Analysis System Doug Tody · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE | 13 Oct 1986 | 1,856 |
| 14 | Atlas of quasar energy distributions M. Elvis, B. J. Wilkes, Jonathan C. McDowell et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | Nov 1994 | 1,819 |
| 15 | The generalised Lomb-Scargle periodogram M. Zechmeister, M. Kürster · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 20 Jan 2009 | 1,756 |
| 16 | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric Camera James E. Gunn et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Dec 1998 | 1,698 |
| 17 | The VizieR database of astronomical catalogues F. Ochsenbein, P. Bauer, J. Marcout · Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series | Apr 2000 | 1,637 |
| 18 | A Test of a New Type of Stellar Interferometer on Sirius Robert Hanbury Brown, R. Q. Twiss · Nature | Nov 1956 | 1,564 |
| 19 | ELODIE: A spectrograph for accurate radial velocity measurements Andre Baranne, Didier P. Queloz, M. Mayor et al. · Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series | Oct 1996 | 1,389 |
| 20 | Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Thomas M. Brown et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Sep 2013 | 1,257 |
| 21 | THE FOURTH US NAVAL OBSERVATORY CCD ASTROGRAPH CATALOG (UCAC4) N. Zacharias, Charlie T. Finch, Terrence Mark Girard et al. · The Astronomical Journal | 14 Jan 2013 | 1,164 |
| 22 | A Catalog of 1.4 GHz Radio Sources from the FIRST Survey Richard L. White, R. H. Becker, D. J. Helfand et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | Feb 1997 | 1,157 |
| 23 | GAIA: Composition, formation and evolution of the Galaxy M. A. C. Perryman, Klass S. de Boer, Gerard F. Gilmore et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | Apr 2001 | 1,130 |
| 24 | Spectral classification of emission-line galaxies Dessauges-Zavadsky, M., Pindao, M., Maeder, A. et al. · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) | 2000 | 1,123 |
| 25 | Accretion by rotating magnetic neutron stars. III - Accretion torques and period changes in pulsating X-ray sources Pranab Ghosh, Frederick K. Lamb · The Astrophysical Journal | Nov 1979 | 1,107 |
| 26 | Pattern codification strategies in structured light systems Joaquím Salví, Jordi Pagès, Joan Batlle · Pattern Recognition | 24 Nov 2003 | 1,105 |
| 27 | CASA, the Common Astronomy Software Applications for Radio Astronomy The CASA Team et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Nov 2022 | 1,104 |
| 28 | Survey of Nonlinear Attitude Estimation Methods John L. Crassidis, F. Landis Markley, Yang Cheng · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics | 28 Dec 2006 | 1,101 |
| 29 | ASTROMETRY.NET: BLIND ASTROMETRIC CALIBRATION OF ARBITRARY ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES Dustin Lang, David W. Hogg, Keir Mierle et al. · The Astronomical Journal | 22 Mar 2010 | 1,074 |
| 30 | Gaia Data Release 1 Brown, AGA et al. · Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) | Nov 2016 | 1,059 |
| 31 | Linear regression in astronomy. T. Isobe, Eric D. Feigelson, Michael G. Akritas et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | Nov 1990 | 1,022 |
| 32 | The 2001 US Naval Observatory Double Star CD-ROM. I. The Washington Double Star Catalog Brian D. Mason, Gary L. Wycoff, William I. Hartkopf et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Dec 2001 | 1,009 |
| 33 | Reddenings derived from H I and galaxy counts - Accuracy and maps D. Burstein, C. Heiles · The Astronomical Journal | Aug 1982 | 992 |
| 34 | The Progenitor Stars of Gamma‐Ray Bursts Stan E. Woosley, Alexander Heger · The Astrophysical Journal | 25 Jan 2006 | 950 |
| 35 | Calculating galactic space velocities and their uncertainties, with an application to the Ursa Major group Dean R. H. Johnson, David R. Soderblom · The Astronomical Journal | Apr 1987 | 936 |
| 36 | The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) Light Curve Server v1.0 Christopher S. Kochanek, Benjamin J. Shappee, K. Z. Stanek et al. · ReIn UW (University of Warsaw) | 2017 | 934 |
| 37 | The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues M. A. C. Perryman · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 4 Dec 2008 | 932 |
| 38 | Extended rotation curves of spiral galaxies: dark haloes and modified dynamics K. Begeman, A. H. Broeils, R. H. Sanders · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Apr 1991 | 924 |
| 39 | HyperLEDA. III. The catalogue of extragalactic distances D. I. Makarov, P. Prugniel, Nataliya Terekhova et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 21 Aug 2014 | 916 |
| 40 | Achieving Better Than 1 Minute Accuracy in the Heliocentric and Barycentric Julian Dates Jason D. Eastman, Robert J. Siverd, B. Scott Gaudi · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | 23 Jul 2010 | 901 |
| 41 | Wavelength dependence of interstellar polarization and ratio of total to selective extinction Krzysztof Serkowski, DS Mathewson, V. L. Ford · The Astrophysical Journal | Feb 1975 | 855 |
| 42 | The ALADIN interactive sky atlas F. Bonnarel, P. Fernique, O. Bienaymé et al. · Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series | Apr 2000 | 854 |
| 43 | Hγ and Hδ Absorption Features in Stars and Stellar Populations Guy Worthey, D. L. Ottaviani · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | Aug 1997 | 845 |
| 44 | SCUBA: a common-user submillimetre camera operating on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope W. S. Holland, E. I. Robson, W. K. Gear et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 11 Mar 1999 | 842 |
| 45 | Precision photometry of early-type galaxies in the Coma and Virgo clusters: a test of the universality of the colour-magnitude relation - II. Analysis Richard G. Bower, John R. Lucey, R. S. Ellis · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 15 Feb 1992 | 830 |
| 46 | THE PPMXL CATALOG OF POSITIONS AND PROPER MOTIONS ON THE ICRS. COMBINING USNO-B1.0 AND THE TWO MICRON ALL SKY SURVEY (2MASS) S. Roêser, Markus Demleitner, E. Schilbach · The Astronomical Journal | 29 Apr 2010 | 823 |
| 47 | Cataclysmic Variable Stars Brian D. Warner, Scott J. Kenyon · Physics Today | Nov 1996 | 806 |
| 48 | Measurement and correction of systematic odometry errors in mobile robots J. Borenstein, Liqiang Feng · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation | 1996 | 805 |
| 49 | Advanced CCD imaging spectrometer (ACIS) instrument on the Chandra X-ray Observatory GORDON P. GARMIRE, Mark W. Bautz, P. G. Ford et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE | 10 Mar 2003 | 793 |
| 50 | Some Physical parameters of early-type stars N. Panagia · The Astronomical Journal | Nov 1973 | 782 |
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