| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products | Astrophysical Journal | 2019 | 1,744 |
| 2 | Gaia Data Release 2 | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2018 | 1,576 |
| 3 | THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN: X-RAYS DRIVE THE UV THROUGH NIR VARIABILITY IN THE 2013 ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS OUTBURST IN NGC 2617 | Astrophysical Journal | 2014 | 1,277 |
| 4 | Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network | Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | 2013 | 773 |
| 5 | Gaia Data Release 2 | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2018 | 638 |
| 6 | An abundance of small exoplanets around stars with a wide range of metallicities | Nature | 2012 | 546 |
| 7 | Hydrogen-poor superluminous stellar explosions | Nature | 2011 | 440 |
| 8 | Supernova SN 2011fe from an exploding carbon–oxygen white dwarf star | Nature | 2011 | 412 |
| 9 | Transiting circumbinary planets Kepler-34 b and Kepler-35 b | Nature | 2012 | 385 |
| 10 | A Robotic Wide‐Angle Hα Survey of the Southern Sky | Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | 2001 | 356 |
| 11 | WASP-12b: THE HOTTEST TRANSITING EXTRASOLAR PLANET YET DISCOVERED | Astrophysical Journal | 2009 | 314 |
| 12 | KEPLER ECLIPSING BINARY STARS. VII. THE CATALOG OF ECLIPSING BINARIES FOUND IN THE ENTIRE KEPLER DATA SET | Astronomical Journal | 2016 | 302 |
| 13 | METALS IN THE EXOSPHERE OF THE HIGHLY IRRADIATED PLANET WASP-12b | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2010 | 300 |
| 14 | PTF 11kx: A Type Ia Supernova with a Symbiotic Nova Progenitor | Science | 2012 | 282 |
| 15 | Exclusion of a luminous red giant as a companion star to the progenitor of supernova SN 2011fe | Nature | 2011 | 274 |
| 16 | First stars | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2007 | 242 |
| 17 | The first WASP public data release | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2010 | 240 |
| 18 | KELT-1b: A STRONGLY IRRADIATED, HIGHLY INFLATED, SHORT PERIOD, 27 JUPITER-MASS COMPANION TRANSITING A MID-F STAR | Astrophysical Journal | 2012 | 230 |
| 19 | Slowly fading super-luminous supernovae that are not pair-instability explosions | Nature | 2013 | 226 |
| 20 | Using Stellar Limb‐Darkening to Refine the Properties of HD 209458b | Astrophysical Journal | 2007 | 225 |
| 21 | Confined dense circumstellar material surrounding a regular type II supernova | Nature Physics | 2017 | 221 |
| 22 | An orbital period of 0.94 days for the hot-Jupiter planet WASP-18b | Nature | 2009 | 217 |
| 23 | A giant planet undergoing extreme-ultraviolet irradiation by its hot massive-star host | Nature | 2017 | 205 |
| 24 | Multiple images of a highly magnified supernova formed by an early-type cluster galaxy lens | Science | 2015 | 202 |
| 25 | Hubble Space Telescope time-series photometry of the planetary transit of HD 189733: no moon, no rings, starspots | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2007 | 183 |
| 26 | WASP-17b: AN ULTRA-LOW DENSITY PLANET IN A PROBABLE RETROGRADE ORBIT | Astrophysical Journal | 2010 | 183 |
| 27 | Gaia Early Data Release 3 | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2021 | 175 |
| 28 | WASP-19b: THE SHORTEST PERIOD TRANSITING EXOPLANET YET DISCOVERED | Astrophysical Journal | 2010 | 174 |
| 29 | Type Ia supernovae as stellar endpoints and cosmological tools | Nature Communications | 2011 | 159 |
| 30 | A strong ultraviolet pulse from a newborn type Ia supernova | Nature | 2015 | 157 |
| 31 | The superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh as a tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole | Nature Astronomy | 2017 | 154 |
| 32 | CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE FROM THE PALOMAR TRANSIENT FACTORY: INDICATIONS FOR A DIFFERENT POPULATION IN DWARF GALAXIES | Astrophysical Journal | 2010 | 153 |
| 33 | MASSES AND ORBITAL CONSTRAINTS FOR THE OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lb,c JUPITER/SATURN ANALOG PLANETARY SYSTEM | Astrophysical Journal | 2010 | 145 |
| 34 | First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. EHT and Multiwavelength Observations, Data Processing, and Calibration | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2022 | 142 |
| 35 | Gaia Data Release 2 | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2018 | 140 |
| 36 | Stellar rotation in the Hyades and Praesepe: gyrochronology and braking time-scale | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2011 | 139 |
| 37 | PTF12os and iPTF13bvn | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2016 | 136 |
| 38 | THE EXTREME HOSTS OF EXTREME SUPERNOVAE | Astrophysical Journal | 2011 | 132 |
| 39 | CALTECH CORE-COLLAPSE PROJECT (CCCP) OBSERVATIONS OF TYPE II SUPERNOVAE: EVIDENCE FOR THREE DISTINCT PHOTOMETRIC SUBTYPES | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2012 | 127 |
| 40 | THE EXTREME MICROLENSING EVENT OGLE-2007-BLG-224: TERRESTRIAL PARALLAX OBSERVATION OF A THICK-DISK BROWN DWARF | Astrophysical Journal | 2009 | 124 |
| 41 | DISENTANGLING BARYONS AND DARK MATTER IN THE SPIRAL GRAVITATIONAL LENS B1933+503 | Astrophysical Journal | 2012 | 119 |
| 42 | The Solar Neighborhood. XLV. The Stellar Multiplicity Rate of M Dwarfs Within 25 pc | Astronomical Journal | 2019 | 119 |
| 43 | DISCOVERY AND MASS MEASUREMENTS OF A COLD, 10 EARTH MASS PLANET AND ITS HOST STAR | Astrophysical Journal | 2011 | 117 |
| 44 | Energetic eruptions leading to a peculiar hydrogen-rich explosion of a massive star | Nature | 2017 | 112 |
| 45 | A candidate super-Earth planet orbiting near the snow line of Barnard’s star | Nature | 2018 | 109 |
| 46 | OSSOS. VII. 800+ Trans-Neptunian Objects—The Complete Data Release | Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series | 2018 | 108 |
| 47 | Real-time processing of the imaging data from the network of Las Cumbres Observatory Telescopes using BANZAI | | 2018 | 108 |
| 48 | RoboNet‐II: Follow‐up observations of microlensing events with a robotic network of telescopes | Astronomische Nachrichten | 2009 | 99 |
| 49 | WASP-52b, WASP-58b, WASP-59b, and WASP-60b: Four new transiting close-in giant planets | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2013 | 98 |
| 50 | Extreme magnification of an individual star at redshift 1.5 by a galaxy-cluster lens | Nature Astronomy | 2018 | 97 |
