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Most cited papers in Space Technology and Applications

What are the most cited papers in Space Technology and Applications?

The most cited paper in Space Technology and Applications is "Reverberation Measurements for 17 Quasars and the Size‐Mass‐Luminosity Relations in Active Galactic Nuclei" (Shai Kaspi, Paul S. Smith, Hagai Netzer et al., 2000), with 1,971 citations. Next come "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies" (1,690) and "The environmental dependence of the relations between stellar mass, structure, star formation and nuclear activity in galaxies" (1,309).

Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 242 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#Paper
1 Reverberation Measurements for 17 Quasars and the Size‐Mass‐Luminosity Relations in Active Galactic Nuclei Shai Kaspi, Paul S. Smith, Hagai Netzer et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 20 Apr 2000 1,971
2 The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies Xiaojing Dong, Shelby H. McIntyre · Quantitative Finance 11 Aug 2014 1,690
3 The environmental dependence of the relations between stellar mass, structure, star formation and nuclear activity in galaxies Guinevere Kauffmann, Simon D. M. White, Timothy M. Heckman et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access 23 Aug 2004 1,309
4 UV LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS AT REDSHIFTS z ∼ 4 TO z ∼ 10: 10,000 GALAXIES FROM HST LEGACY FIELDS R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth, P. A. Oesch et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 13 Apr 2015 1,250
5 The computer for the 21 st century Mark Weiser · ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review Jul 1999 1,218
6 A unified model for the evolution of galaxies and quasars G. Kauffmann, M. Haehnelt · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access 21 Jan 2000 1,181
7 A fundamental relation between mass, star formation rate and metallicity in local and high-redshift galaxies F. Mannucci, G. Cresci, R. Maiolino et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access 6 Sep 2010 1,086
8 THE MULTI-OBJECT, FIBER-FED SPECTROGRAPHS FOR THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY AND THE BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY Stephen A. Smee et al. · The Astronomical Journal Open access 12 Jul 2013 1,072
9 VERY HIGH GAS FRACTIONS AND EXTENDED GAS RESERVOIRS INz= 1.5 DISK GALAXIES E. Daddi, F. Bournaud, F. Walter et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 24 Mar 2010 888
10 Ages for Illustrative Field Stars Using Gyrochronology: Viability, Limitations, and Errors Sydney A. Barnes · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 10 Nov 2007 867
11 The Stellar Population Histories of Early-Type Galaxies. II. Controlling Parameters of the Stellar Populations S. C. Trager, S. M. Faber, Guy Worthey et al. · The Astronomical Journal Open access Jul 2000 703
12 3D-HST: A WIDE-FIELD GRISM SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY WITH THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE Gabriel B. Brammer et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Open access 17 May 2012 701
13 Galaxy Evolution from Halo Occupation Distribution Modeling of DEEP2 and SDSS Galaxy Clustering Zheng Zheng, Alison L. Coil, Idit Zehavi · The Astrophysical Journal Open access Oct 2007 613
14 THE EVOLUTION OF CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES AS REVEALED BY THEIR DONOR STARS Christian Knigge, Isabelle Baraffe, Joseph Patterson · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Open access 23 May 2011 592
15 UPDATED NEARBY GALAXY CATALOG Igor D. Karachentsev, Dmitry I. Makarov, Elena I. Kaisina · The Astronomical Journal Open access 12 Mar 2013 543
16 A primer on hierarchical galaxy formation: the semi-analytical approach C M Baugh · Reports on Progress in Physics Open access 16 Nov 2006 537
17 NEW CONSTRAINTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE STELLAR-TO-DARK MATTER CONNECTION: A COMBINED ANALYSIS OF GALAXY-GALAXY LENSING, CLUSTERING, AND STELLAR MASS FUNCTIONS FROM z = 0.2 to z = 1 Alexie Leauthaud et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 22 Dec 2011 535
18 ChandraTemperature Profiles for a Sample of Nearby Relaxed Galaxy Clusters A. Vikhlinin, M. Markevitch, S. S. Murray et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 28 Jul 2005 529
19 The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies Kartik Sheth et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Open access Dec 2010 520
20 Science Objectives and Early Results of the DEEP2 Redshift Survey Marc Davis et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Conference paperOpen access Feb 2003 519
21 The Size Evolution of Galaxies sincez∼3: Combining SDSS, GEMS, and FIRES Ignacio Trujillo, Natascha M. Forster Schreiber, Gregory Rudnick et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 10 Oct 2006 508
22 The 13th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory Franco D. Albareti et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Open access344 authors Dec 2017 506
23 Galaxy evolution in groups and clusters: star formation rates, red sequence fractions and the persistent bimodality Andrew R. Wetzel, Jeremy L. Tinker, Charlie Conroy · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access 29 May 2012 505
24 The emission line--radio correlation for radio sources using the 7C Redshift Survey C. J. Willott, S. Rawlings, K. M. Blundell et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access 11 Nov 1999 498
25 The eagle simulations of galaxy formation: Public release of halo and galaxy catalogues S. McAlpine, J.C. Helly, M. Schaller et al. · Astronomy and Computing Open access 17 Mar 2016 485
26 The Updated Zwicky Catalog (UZC) Emilio E. Falco, Michael J. Kurtz, Margaret J. Geller et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Open access Apr 1999 478
27 Diffuse Radio Emission from Galaxy Clusters R. J. van Weeren, F. de Gasperin, H. Akamatsu et al. · Space Science Reviews Open access Feb 2019 475
28 The Secular Evolution of Disk Structural Parameters Victor P. Debattista, Lucio Mayer, C. Marcella Carollo et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access Jul 2006 467
29 Building up the stellar halo of the Galaxy A. Helmi, S. D. M. White · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access 11 Aug 1999 463
30 The Protogalactic Origin for Cosmic Magnetic Fields Russell M. Kulsrud, Renyue Cen, Jeremiah P. Ostriker et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 10 May 1997 455
31 THE MOSFIRE DEEP EVOLUTION FIELD (MOSDEF) SURVEY: REST-FRAME OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY FOR ∼1500 H -SELECTED GALAXIES AT $1.37\leqslant z\leqslant 3.8$ Mariska Kriek et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Open access 29 May 2015 444
32 Stellar Abundances for the Galactic Archeology (SAGA) Database — Compilation of the Characteristics of Known Extremely Metal-Poor Stars Takuma Suda, Yutaka Katsuta, Shimako Yamada et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan Open access 25 Oct 2008 439
33 RESIDUAL GAS MOTIONS IN THE INTRACLUSTER MEDIUM AND BIAS IN HYDROSTATIC MEASUREMENTS OF MASS PROFILES OF CLUSTERS Erwin T. Lau, Andrey V. Kravtsov, Daisuke Nagai · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 19 Oct 2009 429
34 Rates of tidal disruption of stars by massive central black holes J. Magorrian, S. Tremaine · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access 21 Oct 1999 429
35 The Kilo-Degree Survey Jelte T. A. de Jong, Gijs A. Verdoes Kleijn, Konrad H. Kuijken et al. · Experimental Astronomy Open access 31 Jul 2012 425
36 Defining the intrinsic AGN infrared spectral energy distribution and measuring its contribution to the infrared output of composite galaxies★ J. R. Mullaney, D. M. Alexander, A. D. Goulding et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access 6 Apr 2011 412
37 Tracing Galaxy Formation with Stellar Halos. II. Relating Substructure in Phase and Abundance Space to Accretion Histories Kathryn V. Johnston, James S. Bullock, Sanjib Sharma et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 26 Nov 2008 406
38 UV-CONTINUUM SLOPES OF >4000 z ∼ 4-8 GALAXIES FROM THE HUDF/XDF, HUDF09, ERS, CANDELS-SOUTH, AND CANDELS-NORTH FIELDS R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth, P. A. Oesch et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 15 Sep 2014 405
39 On the origin of cosmic magnetic fields Russell M Kulsrud, Ellen G Zweibel · Reports on Progress in Physics Open access 20 Mar 2008 396
40 Where Are the Baryons? II. Feedback Effects Renyue Cen, Jeremiah P. Ostriker · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 18 Oct 2006 393
41 The Dearth of z ∼ 10 Galaxies in All HST Legacy Fields—The Rapid Evolution of the Galaxy Population in the First 500 Myr* P. A. Oesch, R. J. Bouwens, G. D. Illingworth et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 10 Mar 2018 380
42 Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the galaxy stellar mass function at z < 0.06 I. K. Baldry et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access Feb 2012 378
43 The space radiation environment for electronics E. G. Stassinopoulos, J. P. Raymond · Proceedings of the IEEE 1988 375
44 THE MAGNETIZED UNIVERSE MASSIMO GIOVANNINI · International Journal of Modern Physics D Open access Mar 2004 375
45 THE CONNECTION BETWEEN GALAXIES AND DARK MATTER STRUCTURES IN THE LOCAL UNIVERSE Rachel M. Reddick, Risa H. Wechsler, Jeremy L. Tinker et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 12 Jun 2013 375
46 A Fundamental Relation between Compact Stellar Nuclei, Supermassive Black Holes, and Their Host Galaxies Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Côté, Elena Dalla Bontà et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 19 May 2006 373
47 THE FREQUENCY OF HOT JUPITERS ORBITING NEARBY SOLAR-TYPE STARS J. T. Wright, G. W. Marcy, A. W. Howard et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 25 Jun 2012 358
48 BLACK HOLE VARIABILITY AND THE STAR FORMATION-ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS CONNECTION: DO ALL STAR-FORMING GALAXIES HOST AN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS? Ryan C. Hickox, James R. Mullaney, David M. Alexander et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 20 Jan 2014 357
49 The Luminosity Function of the Milky Way Satellites S. Koposov, V. Belokurov, N. W. Evans et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 7 Oct 2008 354
50 AGN outflows and feedback twenty years on C. M. Harrison, T. Costa, C. N. Tadhunter et al. · Nature Astronomy Open access 23 Feb 2018 346

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