Astrophysical Journal Letters

Papers
(The H4-Index of Astrophysical Journal Letters is 67. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Comprehensive Measurement of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant with 1 km s−1 Mpc−1 Uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES Team910
First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way754
The Radius of PSR J0740+6620 from NICER and XMM-Newton Data678
A NICER View of the Massive Pulsar PSR J0740+6620 Informed by Radio Timing and XMM-Newton Spectroscopy658
Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO–Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog573
The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Search for an Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background553
Cosmic Distances Calibrated to 1% Precision with Gaia EDR3 Parallaxes and Hubble Space Telescope Photometry of 75 Milky Way Cepheids Confirm Tension with ΛCDM543
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background522
Refined Mass and Geometric Measurements of the High-mass PSR J0740+6620507
Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star–Black Hole Coalescences503
Search for an Isotropic Gravitational-wave Background with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array417
First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VIII. Magnetic Field Structure near The Event Horizon347
First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI. Testing the Black Hole Metric293
A Luminous Quasar at Redshift 7.642282
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics280
First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Testing Astrophysical Models of the Galactic Center Black Hole269
On the Evidence for a Common-spectrum Process in the Search for the Nanohertz Gravitational-wave Background with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array247
First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VII. Polarization of the Ring233
Constraints on the Dense Matter Equation of State and Neutron Star Properties from NICER’s Mass–Radius Estimate of PSR J0740+6620 and Multimessenger Observations225
Two Remarkably Luminous Galaxy Candidates at z ≈ 10–12 Revealed by JWST224
First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. III. Imaging of the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole224
PSR J0952−0607: The Fastest and Heaviest Known Galactic Neutron Star222
CEERS Key Paper. I. An Early Look into the First 500 Myr of Galaxy Formation with JWST213
Parallax Systematics and Photocenter Motions of Benchmark Eclipsing Binaries in Gaia EDR3198
A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ∼ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging189
Early Results from GLASS-JWST. III. Galaxy Candidates at z ∼9–15*180
First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. EHT and Multiwavelength Observations, Data Processing, and Calibration180
First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Variability, Morphology, and Black Hole Mass178
A Test of the Cosmological Principle with Quasars155
A Nearby Repeating Fast Radio Burst in the Direction of M81148
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational-wave Background146
The JWST Early Release Observations142
A Circumplanetary Disk around PDS70c140
Discovery of the Pure Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Indene (c-C9H8) with GOTHAM Observations of TMC-1122
Black Hole Flares: Ejection of Accreted Magnetic Flux through 3D Plasmoid-mediated Reconnection120
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Observations and Timing of 68 Millisecond Pulsars119
LOFAR Detection of 110–188 MHz Emission and Frequency-dependent Activity from FRB 20180916B111
CEERS Epoch 1 NIRCam Imaging: Reduction Methods and Simulations Enabling Early JWST Science Results110
A CEERS Discovery of an Accreting Supermassive Black Hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: Identifying a Progenitor of Massive z > 6 Quasars107
Investigating Cosmic Discordance106
The Pair-instability Mass Gap for Black Holes103
Hidden Little Monsters: Spectroscopic Identification of Low-mass, Broad-line AGNs at z > 5 with CEERS99
GW190521 May Be an Intermediate-mass Ratio Inspiral94
Evidence for Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in the Second LIGO–Virgo Gravitational Wave Catalog92
The Parallax of ω Centauri Measured from Gaia EDR3 and a Direct, Geometric Calibration of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch and the Hubble Constant91
Minding the Gap: GW190521 as a Straddling Binary90
The Most Ordinary Formation of the Most Unusual Double Black Hole Merger89
On the Sound Speed in Neutron Stars87
On the Nature of GW190814 and Its Impact on the Understanding of Supranuclear Matter86
Rotation Measure Evolution of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 12110284
CEERS Spectroscopic Confirmation of NIRCam-selected z ≳ 8 Galaxy Candidates with JWST/NIRSpec: Initial Characterization of Their Properties82
Toward a Better Understanding of Cosmic Chronometers: A New Measurement of H(z) at z ∼ 0.782
Eccentric Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei79
Dusty Starbursts Masquerading as Ultra-high Redshift Galaxies in JWST CEERS Observations78
Astrophysics Milestones for Pulsar Timing Array Gravitational-wave Detection76
Who Ordered That? Unequal-mass Binary Black Hole Mergers Have Larger Effective Spins75
The 60 pc Environment of FRB 20180916B74
First Batch of z ≈ 11–20 Candidate Objects Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope Early Release Observations on SMACS 0723-7373
PSR J1810+1744: Companion Darkening and a Precise High Neutron Star Mass73
Spectroscopic Confirmation of CEERS NIRCam-selected Galaxies at z ≃ 8–1073
Polarimetric Properties of Event Horizon Telescope Targets from ALMA72
An Isolated Mass-gap Black Hole or Neutron Star Detected with Astrometric Microlensing71
GW170817 and GW190814: Tension on the Maximum Mass70
Panic! at the Disks: First Rest-frame Optical Observations of Galaxy Structure at z > 3 with JWST in the SMACS 0723 Field70
New Constraint on Early Dark Energy from Planck and BOSS Data Using the Profile Likelihood69
Intermediate-mass Black Holes from High Massive-star Binary Fractions in Young Star Clusters68
The JWST Early-release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems II: A 1 to 20 μm Spectrum of the Planetary-mass Companion VHS 1256–1257 b68
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