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Research Notes of the AAS is a peer-reviewed journal published by American Astronomical Society, covering Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies. Over its lifetime it has published 2,440 papers, which have received 7,690 citations.

PublisherAmerican Astronomical Society
Reference styleAuthor–year (AAS)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B., & Lee, C. 2023, Research Notes of the AAS, 12, 45

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Publishes research inStellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae Astro and Planetary Science
ISSN2515-5172
Citation impact (2-yr)0.94
h-index35
i10-index162
Top institutions publishing hereSorbonne Université
Journal websiteiopscience.iop.org
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Papers published in Research Notes of the AAS per year

56
2017
237
2018
199
2019
252
2020
288
2021
279
2022
283
2023
325
2024
352
2025

Citation impact of Research Notes of the AAS by publication year

323
2017
1.5K
2018
929
2019
1.8K
2020
905
2021
727
2022
747
2023
501
2024
277
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Research Notes of the AAS

Photometry of 10 Million Stars from the First Two Years of TESS Full Frame Images: Part I

Chelsea X. Huang, Andrew Vanderburg, András Pál et al. · 1 Nov 2020

Abstract The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the first high-precision full-sky photometric survey in space. We extracted light curves from a magnitude limited set of stars and other stationary luminous objects from the TESS Full Frame Images using the MIT Quick Look Pipeline. Here, we describe the techniques used to create light curves.

Photometry of 10 Million Stars from the First Two Years of TESS Full Frame Images: Part II

Chelsea X. Huang, Andrew Vanderburg, András Pál et al. · 1 Nov 2020

Abstract We present light curves from a magnitude limited set of stars and other stationary luminous objects from the TESS Full Frame Images, as reduced by the MIT Quick Look Pipeline (QLP). Our light curves cover the full two-year TESS Primary Mission and include ∼14,770,000 and ∼9,600,000 individual light curve segments in the Southern and…

Python Leap Second Management and Implementation of Precise Barycentric Correction (barycorrpy)

Shubham Kanodia, Jason Wright · 1 Jan 2018

We announce barycorrpy (BCPy) , a Python implementation to calculate precise barycentric corrections well below the 1 cm/s level, following the algorithm of Wright and Eastman (2014). This level of precision is required in the search for 1 Earth mass planets in the Habitable Zones of Sun-like stars by the Radial Velocity (RV) method, where…

Lasair: The Transient Alert Broker for LSST:UK

K. Smith, R. Williams, D. R. Young et al. · 1 Jan 2019

When LSST begins surveying the sky, it is expected to produce a stream of up to 10^7 transients per night. This time domain stream of data will need to be rapidly mined, with digestible alerts produced in a timely manner. Since early 2018, the Zwicky Transient Factory (ZTF) has been producing alerts at a rate…

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