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  1. Thirty most downloaded papers in 2008

 

 

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01/10/2006

Observational Accuracy of Sunrise and Sunset Times in Sixth Century China; Yong Li

1,136

01/10/2005

Estimating the Size and Timing of the Maximum Amplitude of Solar Cycle 24; Li et al

421

01/06/2008

Long-Term Sunspot Number Prediction based on EMD Analysis and AR Model; Xu et al

384

01/12/2006

An Efficient High-Resolution Shock-Capturing Scheme for Multi-Dimensional Flows I. Hydrodynamics; Cong Yu

349

01/12/2006

Automatic Normalization and Equivalent-Width Measurement of High-Resolution Stellar Spectra; Zhao et al

330

01/08/2006

Comparison between Windowed FFT and Hilbert-Huang Transform for Analyzing Time Series with Poissonian Fluctuations: A Case Study; Han et al

293

01/02/2006

Super-Large-Scale Structures in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey; Deng et al

284

01/08/2006

The Relation between the Amplitude and the Period of Solar Cycles; Du et al

278

01/04/2006

The Inclination, Pitch Angle and Forbidden Radius of Spiral Arms of PGC 35105; Hu et al

256

01/06/2007

Support Vector Machine combined with K-Nearest Neighbors for Solar Flare Forecasting; Li et al

248

01/04/2008

Determination of the Topology Skeleton of Magnetic Fields in a Solar Active Region; Zhao et al

220

01/12/2007

A New Formulation for General Relativistic Force-Free Electrodynamics and Its Applications; Cong Yu

205

01/02/2007

Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era; Bing Zhang

187

01/12/2005

An Analysis of the Condensation Temperature of Elements of Extrasolar Planetary Systems; Huang et al

185

01/10/2007

Are Type Ia Supernovae Reliable Distance Indicators?; Lu et al

182

01/12/2007

Simulation Study on High Energy Cosmic Electron Detection by Shower Image; Xu et al

174

01/10/2006

The Guest Star of AD185 must have been a Supernova; Zhao et al

163

31/12/2006

Fireball and Cannonball Models of Gamma-Ray Bursts Confront Observations; Amon Dar

155

01/12/2007

Space-Time Geometry of Quark and Strange Quark Matter; Yilmaz et al

154

31/12/2006

The X-shooter Spectrograph: A Second Generation Instrument for the VLT; Covino et al

152

01/10/2005

Polar Coronal Holes During Solar Cycles 22 and 23; Zhang et al

151

31/12/2006

Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer:  The First Results; John A Nousek

151

01/02/2008

Star-Forming Galaxies at z ~ 2 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field; Kong et al

145

01/08/2008

Historical Dataset Reconstruction and a Prediction Method of Solar 10.7cm Radio Flux; Zhao et al

145

31/12/2006

May Gravity Reveal Tsunami?; D Fargion

138

01/04/2007

Eclipses and Occultations of Galilean Satellites Observed at
Yunnan Observatory in 2003; Peng et al

136

01/12/2007

Short-Term Period Variation of Relative Sunspot Numbers; Yin et al

135

01/08/2005

 

A New Solar Radio Spectrometer at 1.10–2.06GHz and First Observational Results; Ji et al

134

01/02/2008

An Approach of Tropospheric Correction for VLBI
Phase-Referencing using GPS Data; Zhang et al

134

01/10/2005

A Study on the Paul-Baker System as an Instrument for Multi-object Spectrum Observation; Yuan et al

130

 

 

  1. Thirty most downloaded papers published in 2008

 

 

Cover date

Title & Author(s)

Downloads

01/06/2008

Long-Term Sunspot Number Prediction based on EMD Analysis and AR Model; Xu et al

384

01/04/2008

Determination of the Topology Skeleton of Magnetic Fields in a Solar Active Region; Zhao et al

220

01/08/2008

Historical Dataset Reconstruction and a Prediction Method of Solar 10.7cm Radio Flux; Zhao et al

145

01/02/2008

Star-Forming Galaxies at z ~ 2 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field; Kong et al

145

01/02/2008

An Approach of Tropospheric Correction for VLBI
Phase-Referencing using GPS Data; Zhang et al

134

01/08/2008

A Critical Review of the Evidence for M32 being a Compact Dwarf Satellite of M31 rather than a More Distant Normal Galaxy; Young et al

128

01/06/2008

Improving the Angular Resolution of Coded-Mask Telescopes by
Direct Demodulation; Shen and Zhou

122

01/06/2008

Optical Design of Multilayer Achromatic Waveplate by Simulated
Annealing Algorithm; Ma et al

105

01/06/2008

Observations of Giant Pulses of the Crab Pulsar; Kong et al

98

01/06/2008

The Structure of Narrow-Line Region in LINERs; Dai and Wang

97

01/02/2008

Two Novel Approaches for Photometric Redshift Estimation based on SDSS and 2MASS; Wang et al

96

01/04/2008

Speed Distributions of CMEs in Cycle 23 at Low and High
Latitudes; Gao and Li

95

01/02/2008

Gaseous versus Stellar Velocity Dispersion in Emission-Line
Galaxies; Chen et al

95

01/02/2008

A Close Correlation between the Spectral Lags and Redshifts of
Gamma-Ray Bursts; Yi et al

82

01/08/2008

High Spatial Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy of Cas A with Chandra; Yang et al

81

01/08/2008

A Photometric Study of the W UMa-Type Contact Binary RZ Com; He and Qian

78

01/04/2008

Clustering Property of Wolf-Rayet Galaxies in the SDSS; Zhang et al

77

01/02/2008

Geometry of Broad Line Regions of Active Galactic Nuclei; Lü

75

01/08/2008

Simultaneous Multi-Wavelength Observations of the TeV Blazar Mrk 421 during February–March, 2003: X-Ray and NIR Correlated Variability; Gupta et al

75

01/02/2008

Possible Contribution of Mature γ-ray Pulsars to Cosmic-ray
Positrons; Gao et al

75

01/08/2008

A Running Average Method for Predicting the Size and Length of a
Solar Cycle; Du et al

73

01/06/2008

Microscopic Magnetic Dipole Radiation in Neutron Stars; Tong et al

72

01/02/2008

Periodic Orbits in Rotating Second Degree and Order Gravity Fields; Hu and Scheeres

72

01/02/2008

A New Approach for Estimating Kinetic Luminosity of Jet in AGNs; Ma et al

72

01/04/2008

Constraining Galactic pγ Interactions with Cosmic Ray Electron and Positron Spectra; Gupta and Zhang

71

01/06/2008

Effects of α-Enhancement on Stellar Evolution; Guo et al

70

01/02/2008

Growth of Black Holes and Their Host Spheroids in (Sub)mm-loud
High-Redshift QSOs; Hao et al

70

01/08/2008

A Test on Different Types of the Time Curve of Hardness Ratio of
Gamma-Ray Bursts based on the Curvature Effect; Jia

70

01/02/2008

A New Critical Value Concerning the Genealogy of Long Period
Families at L4 in the Restricted Three-body Problem; Hou and Liu

67

01/08/2008

Statistics of Superluminal Motion in Active Galactic Nuclei; Zhang and Fan

63