Most cited papers in Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
What are the most cited papers in Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations?
The most cited paper in Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations is "Electromagnetic extraction of energy from Kerr black holes" (Roger D. Blandford, R. L. Znajek, 1977), with 5,162 citations. Next come "A Fundamental Relation between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies" (4,479) and "First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole" (4,300).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 1,226 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Electromagnetic extraction of energy from Kerr black holes Roger D. Blandford, R. L. Znajek · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Jul 1977 | 5,162 |
| 2 | A Fundamental Relation between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies Laura Ferrarese, David R. Merritt · The Astrophysical Journal | 10 Aug 2000 | 4,479 |
| 3 | First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole Kazunori Akiyama et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters | 9 Apr 2019 | 4,300 |
| 4 | Coevolution (Or Not) of Supermassive Black Holes and Host Galaxies John Kormendy, Luis C. Ho · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 18 Aug 2013 | 4,233 |
| 5 | Hydromagnetic flows from accretion discs and the production of radio jets Roger D. Blandford, David G. Payne · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Aug 1982 | 4,125 |
| 6 | On the Absorption of X‐Rays in the Interstellar Medium J. Wilms, A. Allen, R. McCray · The Astrophysical Journal | 20 Oct 2000 | 4,027 |
| 7 | A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary John Antoniadis et al. · Science | 25 Apr 2013 | 3,919 |
| 8 | Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae and Active Galactic Nuclei Donald E. Osterbrock, J. Michael Shull · Physics Today | Oct 1989 | 3,833 |
| 9 | The Leiden/Argentine/Bonn (LAB) Survey of Galactic HI P. M. W. Kalberla, W. B. Burton, Dap Hartmann et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 29 Aug 2005 | 3,777 |
| 10 | The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies Darren J. Croton, Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 24 Nov 2005 | 3,715 |
| 11 | A Relationship between Nuclear Black Hole Mass and Galaxy Velocity Dispersion Karl Gebhardt, Ralf Bender, Gary Bower et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 10 Aug 2000 | 3,695 |
| 12 | GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters | 15 Jun 2016 | 3,514 |
| 13 | Energy input from quasars regulates the growth and activity of black holes and their host galaxies Tiziana Di Matteo, Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist · Nature | Feb 2005 | 3,408 |
| 14 | The European Photon Imaging Camera on XMM-Newton: The pn-CCD camera Lothar Strüder et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2001 | 3,033 |
| 15 | Observational Evidence of Active Galactic Nuclei Feedback A. C. Fabian · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 22 Jun 2012 | 2,833 |
| 16 | The Swift X-Ray Telescope David N. Burrows et al. · Space Science Reviews | Oct 2005 | 2,699 |
| 17 | Theoretical Modeling of Starburst Galaxies L. J. Kewley, M. A. Dopita, R. S. Sutherland et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 20 Jul 2001 | 2,694 |
| 18 | Instability, turbulence, and enhanced transport in accretion disks Steven A. Balbus, John F. Hawley · Reviews of Modern Physics | 1998 | 2,650 |
| 19 | The Slope of the Black Hole Mass versus Velocity Dispersion Correlation Scott D. Tremaine, Karl Gebhardt, Ralf Bender et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | Aug 2002 | 2,646 |
| 20 | Black hole entropy is the Noether charge Robert M. Wald · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Oct 1993 | 2,547 |
| 21 | GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2 B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters | Jun 2017 | 2,530 |
| 22 | The European Photon Imaging Camera on XMM-Newton: The MOS cameras M. J. L. Turner et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2001 | 2,437 |
| 23 | X-Ray Properties of Black-Hole Binaries Ronald A. Remillard, Jeffrey E. McClintock · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 18 Aug 2006 | 2,431 |
| 24 | XMM-Newton observatory F. A. Jansen, D. Lumb, B. Altieri et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2001 | 2,379 |
| 25 | The Leiden/Argentine/Bonn (LAB) Survey of Galactic HI: Final data release of the combined LDS and IAR surveys with improved stray-radiation corrections P. M. W. Kalberla, W. B. Burton, Dap Hartmann et al. · Americanae (AECID Library) | 6 Apr 2005 | 2,315 |
| 26 | Advection-dominated accretion: A self-similar solution Ramesh Narayan, Insu Yi · The Astrophysical Journal | Jun 1994 | 2,302 |
| 27 | THE NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPIC TELESCOPE ARRAY ( NuSTAR ) HIGH-ENERGY X-RAY MISSION Fiona A. Harrison et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 30 May 2013 | 2,299 |
| 28 | The evolution and explosion of massive stars Stan E. Woosley, Alexander Heger, Thomas A. Weaver · Reviews of Modern Physics | 7 Nov 2002 | 2,273 |
| 29 | Black holes in higher dimensional space-times Robert Cobb Myers, Malcolm J. Perry · Annals of Physics | Dec 1986 | 2,202 |
| 30 | The host galaxies and classification of active galactic nuclei Lisa J. Kewley, Brent A Groves, Guinevere Kauffmann et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 29 Sep 2006 | 2,193 |
| 31 | A Relationship Between Nuclear Black Hole Mass And Galaxy Velocity Dispersion Gebhardt, K, Bender, R, Bower, G et al. | 2000 | 2,155 |
| 32 | Collisional Plasma Models with APEC/APED: Emission-Line Diagnostics of Hydrogen-like and Helium-like Ions Randall K. Smith, Nancy S. Brickhouse, Duane A. Liedahl et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | Aug 2001 | 2,112 |
| 33 | Quasi-Normal Modes of Stars and Black Holes Kostas D. Kokkotas, Bernd G. Schmidt · Living Reviews in Relativity | 16 Sep 1999 | 2,076 |
| 34 | Massive black hole binaries in active galactic nuclei Mitchell C. Begelman, Roger D. Blandford, Martin John Rees · Nature | Sep 1980 | 1,967 |
| 35 | An unusual supernova in the error box of the γ-ray burst of 25 April 1998 T. J. Galama et al. · Nature | Oct 1998 | 1,939 |
| 36 | First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way Kazunori Akiyama et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters | May 2022 | 1,901 |
| 37 | Wide-field, high-resolution Fourier ptychographic microscopy Guoan Zheng, Roarke W. Horstmeyer, Changhuei Yang · Nature Photonics | 26 Jul 2013 | 1,875 |
| 38 | Quasilocal energy and conserved charges derived from the gravitational action J. Brown, James W. York · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Feb 1993 | 1,849 |
| 39 | Tests of General Relativity with GW150914 B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters | 31 May 2016 | 1,836 |
| 40 | Central Masses and Broad‐Line Region Sizes of Active Galactic Nuclei. II. A Homogeneous Analysis of a Large Reverberation‐Mapping Database Bradley M. Peterson, Laura Ferrarese, Karoline M. Gilbert et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | Oct 2004 | 1,834 |
| 41 | GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object R. Abbott et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters | Jun 2020 | 1,825 |
| 42 | PSR J0030+0451 Mass and Radius from NICER Data and Implications for the Properties of Neutron Star Matter M. C. Miller et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters | 10 Dec 2019 | 1,818 |
| 43 | Methods and results of an automatic analysis of a complete sample of Swift -XRT observations of GRBs Phil A. Evans et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 15 Jul 2009 | 1,816 |
| 44 | MONITORING STELLAR ORBITS AROUND THE MASSIVE BLACK HOLE IN THE GALACTIC CENTER S. Gillessen, F. Eisenhauer, Sascha Trippe et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 20 Feb 2009 | 1,799 |
| 45 | THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN: X-RAYS DRIVE THE UV THROUGH NIR VARIABILITY IN THE 2013 ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS OUTBURST IN NGC 2617 B. J. Shappee et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 21 May 2014 | 1,746 |
| 46 | Tidal disruption of stars by black holes of 106–108 solar masses in nearby galaxies Martin John Rees · Nature | Jun 1988 | 1,742 |
| 47 | The Relation between Black Hole Mass, Bulge Mass, and Near-Infrared Luminosity ALESSANDRO MARCONI, L. K. Hunt · The Astrophysical Journal | 18 Apr 2003 | 1,733 |
| 48 | Theory of extragalactic radio sources Mitchell C. Begelman, Roger D. Blandford, Martin John Rees · Reviews of Modern Physics | Apr 1984 | 1,718 |
| 49 | X-ray spectral modelling of the AGN obscuring region in the CDFS: Bayesian model selection and catalogue Johannes Büchner, A. Georgakakis, Kirpal Nandra et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 3 Feb 2014 | 1,691 |
| 50 | A NICER View of PSR J0030+0451: Millisecond Pulsar Parameter Estimation T. E. Riley, A. L. Watts, S. Bogdanov et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters | 10 Dec 2019 | 1,686 |
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