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Stars, Celestial

Known as: Celestial Stars, Star, Celestial, Celestial Star 
Large bodies consisting of self-luminous gas held together by their own gravity. (From McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th… 
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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
THE OCCURRENCE OF POTENTIALLY HABITABLE PLANETS ORBITING M DWARFS ESTIMATED FROM THE FULL KEPLER DATASET AND AN EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENT OF THE DETECTION SENSITIVITY
We present an improved estimate of the occurrence rate of small planets orbiting small stars by searching the full four-year… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
The Nuclear Equation of State and Neutron Star Masses
Neutron stars are valuable laboratories for the study of dense matter. Recent observations have uncovered both massive and low… 
Review
2010
Review
2010
High molecular gas fractions in normal massive star-forming galaxies in the young Universe
Stars form from cold molecular interstellar gas. As this is relatively rare in the local Universe, galaxies like the Milky Way… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
UBVRI PHOTOMETRIC STANDARD STARS AROUND THE CELESTIAL EQUATOR: UPDATES AND ADDITIONS
New broadband UBVRI photoelectric observations on the Johnson–Kron–Cousins photometric system have been made of 202 stars around… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
The physics driving the cosmic star formation history
We investigate the physics driving the cosmic star formation (SF) history using the more than 50 large, cosmological… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Na-O Anticorrelation and HB. VII. The chemical composition of first and second-generation stars in 15 globular clusters from GIRAFFE spectra
We present abundances of Fe, Na, and O for 1409 red giant stars in 15 galactic globular clusters (GCs), derived from the… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
The Growth Mechanisms of Macroscopic Bodies in Protoplanetary Disks
The formation of planetesimals, the kilometer-sized planetary precursors, is still a puzzling process. Considerable progress has… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Gravitational Collapse : The Role of General Relativity 1
Stars whose masses are of the same order as that of the sun (M ) can find a final equilibrium state either as a white dwarf or… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
The effective temperature scale of giant stars (F0–K5) - II. Empirical calibration of versus colours and [Fe/H]
We present calibrations of the effective temperatures of giant stars versus [Fe/H] and colours , , , , , , , , , , and . These… 
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Rotating Neutron Stars as the Origin of the Pulsating Radio Sources
The constancy of frequency in the recently discovered pulsed radio sources can be accounted for by the rotation of a neutron star… 
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