Most cited papers in Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
What are the most cited papers in Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies?
The most cited paper in Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies is "Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds" (David J. Schlegel, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Marc Davis, 1998), with 15,435 citations. Next come "Galactic Stellar and Substellar Initial Mass Function" (9,158) and "On the variation of the initial mass function" (7,639).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 1,363 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds David J. Schlegel, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Marc Davis · The Astrophysical Journal | 20 Jun 1998 | 15,435 |
| 2 | Galactic Stellar and Substellar Initial Mass Function Gilles Chabrier · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Jul 2003 | 9,158 |
| 3 | On the variation of the initial mass function Pavel Kroupa · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Apr 2001 | 7,639 |
| 4 | The Dust Content and Opacity of Actively Star‐forming Galaxies Daniela Calzetti, L. Armus, R. C. Bohlin et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 20 Apr 2000 | 5,835 |
| 5 | The Global Schmidt Law in Star‐forming Galaxies Robert C. Kennicutt · The Astrophysical Journal | 10 May 1998 | 5,273 |
| 6 | A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star Michel Mayor, Didier P. Queloz · Nature | Nov 1995 | 4,172 |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results William J. Borucki et al. · Science | 7 Jan 2010 | 4,121 |
| 9 | Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite George R. Ricker et al. · Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems | 24 Oct 2014 | 4,102 |
| 10 | Cosmic Star-Formation History Piero Madau, Mark Dickinson · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 26 Jun 2014 | 3,846 |
| 11 | The EAGLE project: simulating the evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments Joop Schaye et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 11 Nov 2014 | 3,678 |
| 12 | MODULES FOR EXPERIMENTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (MESA): PLANETS, OSCILLATIONS, ROTATION, AND MASSIVE STARS Bill Paxton, Matteo Cantiello, Phil Arras et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 28 Aug 2013 | 3,616 |
| 13 | The physical properties of star-forming galaxies in the low-redshift Universe J. Brinchmann, S. Charlot, Simon D. M. White et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 11 Jul 2004 | 3,333 |
| 14 | MODULES FOR EXPERIMENTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (MESA): BINARIES, PULSATIONS, AND EXPLOSIONS Bill Paxton, Pablo Marchant, Josiah Schwab et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 21 Sep 2015 | 3,248 |
| 15 | Formation of the Giant Planets by Concurrent Accretion of Solids and Gas James B. Pollack, O. Hubickyj, Peter H. Bodenheimer et al. · Icarus | Nov 1996 | 3,181 |
| 16 | Embedded Clusters in Molecular Clouds Charles J. Lada, Elizabeth A. Lada · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Sep 2003 | 3,049 |
| 17 | Herschel Space Observatory Goeran L. Pilbratt, J. R. Riedinger, Thomas Passvogel et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | Jul 2010 | 3,002 |
| 18 | Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies Robert C. Kennicutt, Neal J. Evans · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 28 Aug 2012 | 2,941 |
| 19 | LUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIES D. B. Sanders, I. Félix Mirabel · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Sep 1996 | 2,848 |
| 20 | Where Are the Missing Galactic Satellites? Anatoly A. Klypin, Andrey V. Kravtsov, O. Valenzuela et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | Sep 1999 | 2,771 |
| 21 | Binary Companions of Evolved Stars in APOGEE DR14: Search Method and Catalog of ∼5000 Companions Price-Whelan, A., Hogg, D., Rix, H. et al. · MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) | 2018 | 2,685 |
| 22 | A grid of MARCS model atmospheres for late-type stars B. Gustafsson, B. Edvardsson, Kimmo Eriksson et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 29 May 2008 | 2,656 |
| 23 | Instability, turbulence, and enhanced transport in accretion disks Steven A. Balbus, John F. Hawley · Reviews of Modern Physics | 1998 | 2,650 |
| 24 | Dust Grain–Size Distributions and Extinction in the Milky Way, Large Magellanic Cloud, and Small Magellanic Cloud Joseph C. Weingartner, B. T. Draine · The Astrophysical Journal | 10 Feb 2001 | 2,646 |
| 25 | Turbulence and star formation in molecular clouds Richard B. Larson · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Apr 1981 | 2,612 |
| 26 | Evolutionary tracks and isochrones for low- and intermediate-mass stars: From 0.15 to 7 $M_{\odot}$, and from $Z=0.0004$ to 0.03 L. Girardi, Alessandro Bressan, G. Bertelli et al. · Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series | Feb 2000 | 2,601 |
| 27 | A survey of interstellar H I from L-alpha absorption measurements. II R. C. Bohlin, Blair D. Savage, J. F. Drake · The Astrophysical Journal | Aug 1978 | 2,580 |
| 28 | The Galaxy Evolution Explorer : A Space Ultraviolet Survey Mission D. Christopher Martin et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 17 Jan 2005 | 2,503 |
| 29 | Theory of Star Formation Christopher F. McKee, Eve C. Ostriker · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 25 Jun 2007 | 2,489 |
| 30 | Interstellar Dust Grains B.T. Draine · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Sep 2003 | 2,410 |
| 31 | Star Formation in Molecular Clouds: Observation and Theory Frank H. Shu, Fred C. Adams, Susana Lizano · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Sep 1987 | 2,403 |
| 32 | INTRINSIC COLORS, TEMPERATURES, AND BOLOMETRIC CORRECTIONS OF PRE-MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS Mark J. Pecaut, Eric E. Mamajek · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 4 Sep 2013 | 2,370 |
| 33 | How do galaxies get their gas? D. Kere, Neal Katz, David H. Weinberg et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 12 Sep 2005 | 2,311 |
| 34 | Introducing the Illustris Project: simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel, Volker Springel et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 29 Aug 2014 | 2,285 |
| 35 | TheHerschel-SPIRE instrument and its in-flight performance Matthew J. Griffin et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | Jul 2010 | 2,276 |
| 36 | Modelling feedback from stars and black holes in galaxy mergers Volker Springel, Tiziana Di Matteo, Lars Hernquist · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 27 Jul 2005 | 2,262 |
| 37 | The CO-to-H 2 Conversion Factor Alberto D. Bolatto, M. G. Wolfire, Adam K. Leroy · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 28 Jun 2013 | 2,214 |
| 38 | Infrared Emission from Interstellar Dust. IV. The Silicate‐Graphite‐PAH Model in the Post‐ Spitzer Era B. T. Draine, Aigen Li · The Astrophysical Journal | 6 Mar 2007 | 2,145 |
| 39 | The Milky Way in Molecular Clouds: A New Complete CO Survey T. M. Dame, Dap Hartmann, P. Thaddeus · The Astrophysical Journal | Feb 2001 | 2,127 |
| 40 | The Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) George H. Rieke et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | Sep 2004 | 2,102 |
| 41 | Ultraluminous infrared galaxies and the origin of quasars D. B. Sanders, B. T. Soifer, J. H. Elias et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | Feb 1988 | 2,101 |
| 42 | THE BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SDSS-III Kyle S. Dawson et al. · The Astronomical Journal | 6 Dec 2012 | 2,091 |
| 43 | A synthetic view on structure and evolution of the Milky Way Annie C. Robin, C. Reylé, S. Derrière et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 24 Sep 2003 | 2,082 |
| 44 | Cosmological hydrodynamics with adaptive mesh refinement Romain Teyssier · Astronomy and Astrophysics | Apr 2002 | 2,074 |
| 45 | Herschel Space Observatory - An ESA facility for far-infrared and submillimetre astronomy Göran L. Pilbratt, J. R. Riedinger, Thomas Passvogel et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) | 28 May 2010 | 1,975 |
| 46 | Local kinematics and the local standard of rest Ralph A. Schönrich, James Jeffrey Binney, Walter Dehnen · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Feb 2010 | 1,942 |
| 47 | Interstellar Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Molecules Alexander G. G. M. Tielens · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 15 Aug 2008 | 1,820 |
| 48 | THE STAR FORMATION LAW IN NEARBY GALAXIES ON SUB-KPC SCALES Frank Bigiel, Adam K. Leroy, Fabian Walter et al. · The Astronomical Journal | 19 Nov 2008 | 1,820 |
| 49 | The Initial Mass Function of Stars: Evidence for Uniformity in Variable Systems Pavel Kroupa · Science | 4 Jan 2002 | 1,817 |
| 50 | Galaxy bimodality due to cold flows and shock heating Avishai Dekel, Yuval Birnboim · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 27 Mar 2006 | 1,805 |
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