Astrophysical Journal Letters

Papers
(The H4-Index of Astrophysical Journal Letters is 75. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Diverse Properties of Molecular Gas in the Host Galaxies of Fast Radio Bursts1287
A Mathematical Treatment of the Offset Microlensing Degeneracy1138
Ice Sublimation in Planetesimals Formed at the Outward Migrating Snowline871
A Tale of Three: Magnetic Fields along the Orion Integral-shaped Filament as Revealed by the JCMT BISTRO Survey871
Erratum “A Low-mass Cold and Quiescent Core Population in a Massive Star Protocluster” (2021, ApJL, 912, L7)842
Meet the Parents: The Progenitor Binary for the Supermassive Black Hole Candidate in E1821+643718
Formation of a Solar Filament by Magnetic Reconnection, Associated Chromospheric Evaporation, and Subsequent Coronal Condensation645
A Potential Second Shutoff from AT2018fyk: An Updated Orbital Ephemeris of the Surviving Star under the Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Event Paradigm592
Helium Fluxes Measured by the PAMELA Experiment from the Minimum to the Maximum Solar Activity for Solar Cycle 24465
Lava Worlds Surface Measurements at High Temperatures416
The Luminosity Function of Tidal Disruption Events from Fallback-powered Emission: Implications for the Black Hole Mass Function375
On the Contribution of Unresolved Pulsars to the Ultra-high-energy Galactic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission340
Varstrometry for Off-nucleus and Dual Subkiloparsec AGN (VODKA). SDSS J1608+2716: A Subarcsecond Quadruply Lensed Quasar at z = 2.575337
Partial Alignment of Astrometric Position Excursions of International Celestial Reference Frame Quasars with Radio Jet Structures309
Two Homologous Quasi-periodic Fast-mode Propagating Wave Trains Induced by Two Small-scale Filament Eruptions299
DKIST Unveils the Serpentine Topology of Quiet Sun Magnetism in the Photosphere283
8.9 hr Rotation in the Partly Burnt Runaway Stellar Remnant LP 40-365 (GD 492)269
Dependencies of Mantle Shock Heating in Pairwise Accretion251
Stars Bisected by Relativistic Blades246
Machine Learning the Sixth Dimension: Stellar Radial Velocities from 5D Phase-space Correlations246
Void Galaxy Distribution: A Challenge for ΛCDM234
Explosive Nucleosynthesis in Core-collapse Type II Supernovae: Insights from New C, N, Si, and Al–Mg Isotopic Compositions of Presolar Grains232
Role of Planetary Radius on Atmospheric Escape of Rocky Exoplanets210
The Kinematic and Chemical Properties of the Close-in Planet Host Star 8 UMi206
Small-scale Anisotropies of Cosmic Rays from Turbulent Flow206
Evidence for Plasmoid-mediated Magnetic Reconnection during a Small-scale Flare in the Partially Ionized Low Solar Atmosphere186
Predicting the Dominant Formation Mechanism of Multiplanetary Systems185
Constraining Possible γ-Ray Burst Emission from GW230529 Using Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM185
Binning is Sinning: Redemption for Hubble Diagram Using Photometrically Classified Type Ia Supernovae169
Acceleration of Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Rays in the Kiloparsec-scale Jets of Nearby Radio Galaxies133
Quantum-mechanical Suppression of Accretion by Primordial Black Holes127
Nanoflare Heating of the Solar Corona Observed in X-Rays124
Satellite Constellation Avoidance with the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time121
The Influence of Hydrogen Sulfide on the Optical Properties of Planetary Organic Hazes: Implications for Exoplanet Climate Modeling120
An Observational Study of a “Rosetta Stone” Solar Eruption112
Unusual Emission Variations Near the Eclipse of Black Widow Pulsar PSR J1720−0533112
Metal Pollution in Sun-like Stars from Destruction of Ultra–short-period Planets104
Upper Limits on the Mass of Cool Gas in the Circumgalactic Medium of Dwarf Galaxies104
Twin Extreme Ultraviolet Waves in the Solar Corona102
Formation of a Solar Filament by Magnetic Reconnection and Coronal Condensation101
On the Geometry of the Near-core Magnetic Field in Massive Stars101
Superhorizon Perturbations: A Possible Explanation of the Hubble–Lemaître Tension and the Large-scale Anisotropy of the Universe101
Double “acct”: A Distinct Double-peaked Supernova Matching Pulsational Pair Instability Models100
Atmospheric Abundances and Bulk Properties of the Binary Brown Dwarf Gliese 229Bab from JWST/MIRI Spectroscopy99
Resolving Turbulence Drivers in Two Luminous Obscured Quasars with JWST/NIRSpec Integral Field Unit96
SuNeRF: 3D Reconstruction of the Solar EUV Corona Using Neural Radiance Fields95
Alpha–Proton Relative Drift: Implications for the Origins and Dynamics of the Solar Wind95
Schwarzschild and Ledoux are Equivalent on Evolutionary Timescales94
Betatron Cooling of Halo and Strahl Electrons in the Solar Wind92
Corvus A: A Low-mass, Isolated Galaxy at 3.5 Mpc92
Redder than Red: Discovery of an Exceptionally Red L/T Transition Dwarf92
Polar Circumtriple Planets and Disks Can Only Form Close to a Triple Star90
Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XV. Properties of the Faintest Red Sources in the NIRCAM Deep Fields89
Formation of Low-mass Black Holes and Single Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters88
An XMM-Newton EPIC X-Ray View of the Symbiotic Star R Aquarii88
The Discovery and Characterization of Earth-crossing Asteroid 2024 YR488
Star Formation Suppression by Tidal Removal of Cold Molecular Gas from an Intermediate-redshift Massive Post-starburst Galaxy87
When the Stars Align: A 5σ Concordance of Planetary Nebulae Major Axes in the Center of Our Galaxy87
The Discrepancy between Observed and Predicted Heliospheric Energetic Neutral Atoms below Solar Wind Energy86
Morphological Evidence for the eROSITA Bubbles Being Giant and Distant Structures85
General Circulation Model Constraints on the Detectability of the CO2-CH4 Biosignature Pair on TRAPPIST-1e with JWST85
Uncovering a Massive z ∼ 7.7 Galaxy Hosting a Heavily Obscured Radio-loud Active Galactic Nucleus Candidate in COSMOS-Web84
Erratum: “The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics” (2023, ApJL 951 L11)84
Effect of H2S on the Near-infrared Spectrum of Irradiation Residue and Applications to the Kuiper Belt Object (486958) Arrokoth83
exoALMA. XIV. Gas Surface Densities in the RX J1604.3−2130 A Disk from Pressure-broadened CO Line Wings83
Correlating High-energy IceCube Neutrinos with 5BZCAT Blazars and RFC Sources82
Are Delayed Radio Flares Common in Tidal Disruption Events? The Case of the TDE iPTF 16fnl81
The Stellar Initial Mass Function of Early Dark Matter–free Gas Objects81
FAST Discovery of Eight Isolated Millisecond Pulsars in NGC 651779
Evidence for r-process Delay in Very Metal-poor Stars79
Explanation of Heliospheric Energetic Neutral Atom Fluxes Observed by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer77
Current Sheet Alignment in Oblique Black Hole Magnetospheres: A Black Hole Pulsar?77
Anisotropy of Magnetic Field Spectra at Kinetic Scales of Solar Wind Turbulence as Revealed by the Parker Solar Probe in the Inner Heliosphere76
Origins of Hot Jupiters from the Stellar Obliquity Distribution76
Red Spiral Galaxies at Cosmic Noon Unveiled in the First JWST Image75
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