Research Articles: High-Impact Letters 

Below is a list of high-impact, short-form ("letter") reasearch articles. Choose one of these as the central source for your paper. The articles are roughly sorted by subject but otherwise are in random order. Each article title is linked to the full-text version in the abstract service of the Astrophysical Data System (ADS), the indespensible bibliographic database.

Galaxy and Structure Formation

• A Measurement of Large-Scale Peculiar Velocities of Clusters of Galaxies: Results and Cosmological Implications
• Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars
• A deep Chandra observation of the Perseus cluster: shocks and ripples
• Black Holes in Galaxy Mergers: The Formation of Red Elliptical Galaxies
• A New Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy in Ursa Major
• High molecular gas fractions in normal massive star-forming galaxies in the young Universe
• Herschel unveils a puzzling uniformity of distant dusty galaxies
• A candidate redshift z~10 galaxy and rapid changes in that population at an age of 500Myr
• A substantial population of low-mass stars in luminous elliptical galaxies
• Over half of the far-infrared background light comes from galaxies at z>=1.2
• The Large, Oxygen-Rich Halos of Star-Forming Galaxies Are a Major Reservoir of Galactic Metals
• Universality of galactic surface densities within one dark halo scale-length
• Submillimetre galaxies reside in dark matter haloes with masses greater than 3x10¹¹ solar masses
• Structure and Morphologies of z ~ 7-8 Galaxies from Ultra-deep WFC3/IR Imaging of the Hubble Ultra-deep Field
• The Baryon Content of Cosmic Structures
• On the Connection Between Giant Radio Halos and Cluster Mergers
• The remnants of galaxy formation from a panoramic survey of the region around M31
• Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes
• Disc formation and the origin of clumpy galaxies at high redshift
• Chemical similarities between Galactic bulge and local thick disk red giant stars
• An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin
• Dusty starburst galaxies in the early Universe as revealed by gravitational lensing

Supermassive Black Holes

• A Relationship between Nuclear Black Hole Mass and Galaxy Velocity Dispersion [Erratum: 2001ApJ...555L..75G]
• A Fundamental Relation between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies
• Black Holes, Galaxy Formation, and the MBH-sigma Relation
• Near-infrared flares from accreting gas around the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre
• Event-horizon-scale structure in the supermassive black hole candidate at the Galactic Centre
• Relativistic jet activity from the tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole
• Two ten-billion-solar-mass black holes at the centres of giant elliptical galaxies
• A gas cloud on its way towards the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre
• The Galactic Center Weather Forecast

Dark Matter

• A common mass scale for satellite galaxies of the Milky Way
• Linking dwarf galaxies to halo building blocks with the most metal-poor star in Sculptor
• Uncovering Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Milky Way's Ultrafaint Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite Galaxies
• Constraining Dark Matter Models from a Combined Analysis of Milky Way Satellites with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
• Fermi Large Area Telescope Search for Photon Lines from 30 to 200 GeV and Dark Matter Implications
• Dark Matter Search Results from the CDMS II Experiment
• Dark Matter Results from 225 Live Days of XENON100 Data
• Clumps and streams in the local dark matter distribution
• A Dearth of Dark Matter in Ordinary Elliptical Galaxies
• The Mass Profile of the Galaxy to 80 kpc
• Exclusion of Canonical Weakly Interacting Massive Particles by Joint Analysis of Milky Way Dwarf Galaxies with Data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Active Galaxies

• The inner jet of an active galactic nucleus as revealed by a radio-to-gamma-ray outburst
• Fermi Gamma-Ray Imaging of a Radio Galaxy

The First Stars

• Nucleosynthetic signatures of the first stars
• The minimum stellar metallicity observable in the Galaxy
• The Formation of Population III Binaries from Cosmological Initial Conditions
• Tracing the first stars with fluctuations of the cosmic infrared background
• The Highly Unusual Chemical Composition of the Hercules Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
• Dark Matter Capture and Annihilation on the First Stars: Preliminary Estimates
• Seeing the First Supernovae at the Edge of the Universe with JWST

High-Energy Sources

• Spectrum of the Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission Derived from First-Year Fermi Large Area Telescope Data
• GeV Gamma-ray Flux Upper Limits from Clusters of Galaxies
• Fermi Large Area Telescope observations of Local Group galaxies: detection of M 31 and search for M 33
• A very energetic supernova associated with the gamma-ray burst of 29 March 2003
• Long Gamma-ray bursts and core-collapse supernovae have different environments
• A short Gamma-ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z = 0.225
• A Gamma-ray burst at a redshift of z~8.2
• An anomalous positron abundance in cosmic rays with energies 1.5-100GeV
• Very-High-Energy gamma rays from a Distant Quasar: How Transparent Is the Universe?
• Observation of the Suppression of the Flux of Cosmic Rays above 4x10¹⁹eV
• Detection of Gamma Rays from a Starburst Galaxy

Hypervelocity Stars

• Ejection of hypervelocity binary stars by a black hole of intermediate mass orbiting Sgr A
• The Nature of Hypervelocity Stars and the Time between Their Formation and Ejection
• A Galactic Origin for HE 0437-5439, The Hypervelocity Star Near the Large Magellanic Cloud
• An Alternative Origin for Hypervelocity Stars

Cosmic Microwave Background

• Signatures of a Hidden Cosmic Microwave Background
• A Test of the Copernican Principle

Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis / Early Universe

• Missing Baryons and the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium
• Observation of interstellar lithium in the low-metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud
• The Primordial Abundance of 4He: Evidence for Non-Standard Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
• Signatures of a Hidden Cosmic Microwave Background

Dark Energy

• Phantom Energy: Dark Energy with w<-1 Causes a Cosmic Doomsday
• A test of the nature of cosmic acceleration using galaxy redshift distortions