The Research Productivity of Small Telescopes and Space Telescopes

Details The Research Productivity of Small Telescopes and Space Telescopes The Research Productivity of Small Telescopes and Space Telescopes

2003-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309772v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

28 pages, 3 figures, 10 tables, accepted for publication in the Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (BAAS)

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We present statistics on the research productivity of astronomical telescopes. These were compiled by finding papers in which new data were presented, noting which telescopes were used, and then counting the number of papers, number of pages, and other statistics. The journals used were the Astronomical Journal, the Astrophysical Journal (including the Letters and Supplements), and the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. We also compiled citations from the Science Citation Index. This work was designed to be similar to that of Trimble (1995), except that more recent journals (from 1995) and citations (from 1998) were used. We also did not restrict our sample to large telescopes only: we included all telescopes from which new data were presented, the smallest of which was a 0.1-m. The data were gathered by first-year work-study undergraduates, who were instructed to include data for all telescopes for which they found new data were included in the journals. A by-product of this research was therefore the relative productivity of ground-based versus space telescopes, and the relative productivity of radio and other telescopes across the spectrum, versus optical telescopes.

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