Most cited papers in Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
What are the most cited papers in Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies?
The most cited paper in Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies is "Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant" (Adam G. Riess, A. V. Filippenko, P. Challis et al., 1998), with 19,814 citations. Next come "Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae" (18,225) and "Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds" (15,435).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 1,918 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant Adam G. Riess, A. V. Filippenko, P. Challis et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Sep 1998 | 19,814 |
| 2 | Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae S. Perlmutter et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | Jun 1999 | 18,225 |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) Michael F. Skrutskie et al. · The Astronomical Journal | 24 Jan 2006 | 12,280 |
| 5 | Stellar population synthesis at the resolution of 2003 Gustavo A. Bruzual, Stéphane Charlot · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 22 Sep 2003 | 10,695 |
| 6 | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary Donald G. York et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Sep 2000 | 10,547 |
| 7 | The Chemical Composition of the Sun M. Asplund, N. Grevesse, A. J. Sauval et al. · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 20 Aug 2009 | 9,518 |
| 8 | Galactic Stellar and Substellar Initial Mass Function Gilles Chabrier · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Jul 2003 | 9,158 |
| 9 | Gaia Data Release 2 A. G. A. Brown et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 24 Apr 2018 | 8,734 |
| 10 | THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE): MISSION DESCRIPTION AND INITIAL ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE EDWARD L. WRIGHT et al. · The Astronomical Journal | 9 Nov 2010 | 8,163 |
| 11 | MEASURING REDDENING WITH SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY STELLAR SPECTRA AND RECALIBRATING SFD Edward F. Schlafly, Douglas P. Finkbeiner · The Astrophysical Journal | 8 Aug 2011 | 7,745 |
| 12 | On the variation of the initial mass function Pavel Kroupa · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Apr 2001 | 7,639 |
| 13 | Smoothed particle hydrodynamics: theory and application to non-spherical stars R. A. Gingold, Joseph J. Monaghan · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Dec 1977 | 7,263 |
| 14 | The Gaia mission T. Prusti et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 15 Sep 2016 | 7,118 |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | The Global Schmidt Law in Star‐forming Galaxies Robert C. Kennicutt · The Astrophysical Journal | 10 May 1998 | 5,273 |
| 17 | The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) James R. Lemen et al. · Solar Physics | Jun 2011 | 4,818 |
| 18 | DAOPHOT - A computer program for crowded-field stellar photometry Peter B. Stetson · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Mar 1987 | 4,775 |
| 19 | MODULES FOR EXPERIMENTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (MESA) Bill Paxton, Lars Bildsten, Aaron Dotter et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 15 Dec 2010 | 4,403 |
| 20 | Type Ia Supernova Discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope : Evidence for Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution Adam G. Riess, Louis‐Gregory Strolger, John L. Tonry et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 19 May 2004 | 4,278 |
| 21 | parsec : stellar tracks and isochrones with the PAdova and TRieste Stellar Evolution Code Alessandro Bressan, Paola Marigo, L. Girardi et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 29 Oct 2012 | 4,269 |
| 22 | The Swift Gamma‐Ray Burst Mission Neil A. Gehrels et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 20 Aug 2004 | 4,258 |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star Michel Mayor, Didier P. Queloz · Nature | Nov 1995 | 4,172 |
| 25 | Gaia Data Release 3 Antonella Vallenari et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 10 Jun 2022 | 4,157 |
| 26 | Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results William J. Borucki et al. · Science | 7 Jan 2010 | 4,121 |
| 27 | Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite George R. Ricker et al. · Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems | 24 Oct 2014 | 4,102 |
| 28 | The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centers John Magorrian, Scott D. Tremaine, Douglas O. Richstone et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Jun 1998 | 4,074 |
| 29 | Gaia Early Data Release 3 A. G. A. Brown et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 3 Dec 2020 | 3,978 |
| 30 | Validation of the new Hipparcos reduction Floor van Leeuwen · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 13 Aug 2007 | 3,846 |
| 31 | Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae and Active Galactic Nuclei Donald E. Osterbrock, J. Michael Shull · Physics Today | Oct 1989 | 3,833 |
| 32 | Star Formation in Galaxies Along the Hubble Sequence Robert C. Kennicutt, Key Words | 1998 | 3,792 |
| 33 | Binary Companions of Evolved Stars in APOGEE DR14: Search Method and Catalog of ∼5000 Companions Adrian M. Price-Whelan, David W. Hogg, Hans-Walter Rix et al. · The Astronomical Journal | 18 Jun 2018 | 3,746 |
| 34 | The Origin of the Mass‐Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star‐forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Christy Tremonti, Timothy M. Heckman, Guinevere Kauffmann et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | Oct 2004 | 3,670 |
| 35 | 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 |
| 36 | Standard Solar Composition N. Grevesse, A. J. Sauval · Space Science Reviews | May 1998 | 3,533 |
| 37 | 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 |
| 38 | 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 |
| 39 | Correcting for the Effects of Interstellar Extinction E. L. Fitzpatrick · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | 1999 | 3,292 |
| 40 | 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 |
| 41 | Dark Matter Substructure within Galactic Halos Ben Moore, Sebastiano Ghigna, Fabio Governato et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 10 Oct 1999 | 3,058 |
| 42 | Embedded Clusters in Molecular Clouds Charles J. Lada, Elizabeth A. Lada · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Sep 2003 | 3,049 |
| 43 | Herschel Space Observatory Goeran L. Pilbratt, J. R. Riedinger, Thomas Passvogel et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | Jul 2010 | 3,002 |
| 44 | MESA ISOCHRONES AND STELLAR TRACKS (MIST). I. SOLAR-SCALED MODELS Jieun Choi, Aaron Dotter, Charlie Conroy et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 26 May 2016 | 2,897 |
| 45 | Secondary standard stars for absolute spectrophotometry J. Beverly Oke, James E. Gunn · The Astrophysical Journal | Mar 1983 | 2,871 |
| 46 | The Large Angle Spectroscopic Coronagraph (LASCO) G. E. Brueckner, R. A. Howard, M. J. Koomen et al. · Solar Physics | Dec 1995 | 2,839 |
| 47 | The Complete Light-curve Sample of Spectroscopically Confirmed SNe Ia from Pan-STARRS1 and Cosmological Constraints from the Combined Pantheon Sample Daniel M. Scolnic et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 29 May 2018 | 2,829 |
| 48 | 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 |
| 49 | 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 |
| 50 | 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 |
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