Pulsars and neutron stars/Key discoveries and the literature

Key discoveries Date Discovery Reference Nov 28th 1967 First pulsar discovered 1968 Discovery of Crab pulsar 1974 First pulsar in binary system (PSR B1913+16) 1982 Discovery of the first millisecond pulsar (PSR B1937+21) 1992 Discovery of the first extra-Solar planets (around PSR B1257+12) 2003 Discovery of the first double pulsar system Top cited papers each year The following has been obtained from ADS by searching for the word "pulsar" in the abstract for papers in a given year. We list the top two cited papers for each year. Note that it is likely that this "ranking" may change for publications in recent years. Year Reference Title 2014 WillOlausen & Kaspi The Confrontation between General Relativity and ExperimentThe McGill Magnetar Catalog 2013 Antoniadis et al.Abdo et al. A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic BinaryThe Second Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-Ray Pulsars 2012 ProfumoAbazajian & Kaplinghat Dissecting cosmic-ray electron-positron data with Occam's razor: the role of known pulsarsDetection of a gamma-ray source in the Galactic Center consistent with extended emission from dark matter annihilation and concentrated astrophysical emission 2011 Uzan van Haasteren et al. Varying Constants, Gravitation and CosmologyPlacing limits on the stochastic gravitational-wave background using European Pulsar Timing Array data 2010 Demorest et al.Abadie et al. A two-solar-mass neutron star measured using Shapiro delayTOPICAL REVIEW: Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors 2009 Abdo et al. Hooper, Balsi & Dario Serpico Fermi/Large Area Telescope Bright Gamma-Ray Source List Pulsars as the sources of high energy cosmic ray positrons 2008 Chang et al.Mereghetti An excess of cosmic ray electrons at energies of 300-800GeVThe strongest cosmic magnets: soft gamma-ray repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars 2007 Lattimer & PrakashLorimer et al. Neutron star observations: Prognosis for equation of state constraintsA Bright Millisecond Radio Burst of Extragalactic Origin 2006 WillWoosley & Heger The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment The Progenitor Stars of Gamma-Ray Bursts 2005 Manchester et al.Hobbs et al. The Australia Telescope National Facility Pulsar CatalogueA statistical study of 233 pulsar proper motions 2004 Lattimer & PrakashLyne et al. The Physics of Neutron StarsA Double-Pulsar System: A Rare Laboratory for Relativistic Gravity and Plasma Physics 2003 Burgay et al.Chakrabarty et al. An increased estimate of the merger rate of double neutron stars from observations of a highly relativistic systemNuclear-powered millisecond pulsars and the maximum spin frequency of neutron stars 2002 Cordes & LazioSarangi & Tye NE2001.I. A New Model for the Galactic Distribution of Free Electrons and its Fluctuations Cosmic string production towards the end of brane inflation 2001 Manchester et al.Will The Parkes multi-beam pulsar survey - I. Observing and data analysis systems, discovery and timing of 100 pulsarsThe Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment 2000 van der Klis Maeder & Meynet Millisecond Oscillations in X-ray binariesThe evolution of rotating stars 1999 Hartman et al.Thorsett & Chakrabarty The Third EGRET Catalog of High-Energy Gamma-Ray SourcesNeutron Star Mass Measurements. I. Radio Pulsars 1998 Kouveliotou et al. An X-ray pulsar with a superstrong magnetic field in the soft γ-ray repeater SGR1806 - 20 1997 Bildsten et al.Becker & Truemper Observations of Accreting PulsarsThe X-ray luminosity of rotation-powered neutron stars 1996 Thompson & Duncan Romani The Soft Gamma Repeaters as Very Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars. II. Quiescent Neutrino, X-Ray, and Alfven Wave EmissionGamma-Ray Pulsars: Radiation Processes in the Outer Magnetosphere 1995 Thompson & DuncanBurrows, Hayes & Fryxell The soft gamma repeaters as very strongly magnetized neutron stars - I. Radiative mechanism for outburstsOn the Nature of Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions 1994 Lyne & LorimerKaspi, Taylor & Ryba High birth velocities of radio pulsarsHigh-precision timing of millisecond pulsars. 3: Long-term monitoring of PSRs B1855+09 and B1937+21 1993 Taylor & Cordes Taylor, Manchester & Lyne ] Pulsar distances and the galactic distribution of free electronsCatalog of 558 pulsars 1992 Duncan & ThompsonWolszczan & Frail Formation of very strongly magnetized neutron stars - Implications for gamma-ray burstsA planetary system around the millisecond pulsar PSR1257 + 12 1991 Bhattacharya & van den Heuvel Phinney Formation and evolution of binary and millisecond radio pulsarsThe rate of neutron star binary mergers in the universe - Minimal predictions for gravity wave detectors 1990 RickettCoroniti Radio propagation through the turbulent interstellar plasmaMagnetically striped relativistic magnetohydrodynamic winds - The Crab Nebula revisited 1989 Eichler et al. Taylor & Weisberg Nucleosynthesis, neutrino bursts and gamma-rays from coalescing neutron starsFurther experimental tests of relativistic gravity using the binary pulsar PSR 1913 + 16 1987 Dewey & CordesLyne et al. Monte Carlo simulations of radio pulsars and their progenitorsThe discovery of a millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster M28 1986 Chen, Ho & RudermanChen, Ho & Ruderman Energetic radiation from rapidly spinning pulsars. I - Outer magnetosphere gaps. II - VELA and CrabEnergetic Radiation from Rapidly Spinning Pulsars. II. VELA and Crab 1985 Example Example 1984 Example Example 1983 Example Example 1982 Example Example 1981 Example Example 1980 Example Example 1979 Example Example 1978 Example Example 1977 Rickett Flowers & Ruderman Interstellar scattering and scintillation of radio wavesEvolution of pulsar magnetic fields 1976 Example Example 1975 Example Example 1974 Rees & Gunn Manchester The origin of the magnetic field and relativistic particles in the Crab Nebula Structure of the Local Galactic Magnetic Field 1973 Example Example 1972 Example Example 1971 Example Example 1970 Gunn & Ostriker Shklovskii On the Nature of Pulsars. III. Analysis of ObservationsPossible Causes of the Secular Increase in Pulsar Periods 1969 Goldreich & JulianOstriker & Gunn Pulsar Electrodynamics On the Nature of Pulsars. I. Theory 1968 Pacini Large, Vaughan, Mills Rotating Neutron Stars, Pulsars and Supernova RemnantsA Pulsar Supernova Association?