The NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service has become a key component of astronomical research. It provides bibliographic information daily, or near daily, to a majority of astronomical researchers worldwide. We describe the history of the development of the system and its current status. Urania (Boyce 1996), and the ADS role in the emerging electronic astronomical data environment are ...

Are the e-prints (electronic preprints) from the arXiv repository being used instead of the journal articles? In this paper we show that the e-prints have not undermined the usage of journal papers in the astrophysics community. As soon as the journal article is published, the astronomical community prefers to read the journal article and the use of e-prints through the NASA Astrophysics Data S...

We give the distribution of Mn, the maximum of a sequence of n observations from a moving average of order 1. Solutions are first given in terms of repeated integrals and then for the case where the underlying independent random variables have an absolutely continuous density. When the correlation is positive , P (Mn ≤ x) = ∞

We are members of the Astrophysics Source Code Library's Advisory Committee and its editor-in-chief. The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL, ascl.net) is a successful initiative that advocates for open research software and provides an infrastructure for registering, discovering, sharing, and citing this software. Started in 1999, the ASCL has been expanding in recent years, with an average...

Expanding upon Pimbblet’s informative 2011 analysis of career h-indices for members of the Astronomical Society of Australia, we provide additional citation metrics which are geared to a) quantifying the current performance of b) all professional astronomers in Australia. We have trawled the staff web-pages of Australian Universities, Observatories and Research Organisations hosting professiona...

A brief survey of nuclide abundances in the solar-system and in cosmic rays and of the believed mechanisms of their synthesis is given. The role of spallation processes in nucleosynthesis is discussed. A short review of recent measurements, compilations, calculations, and evaluations of spallation cross sections relevant to nuclear astrophysics is given as well. It is shown that in some past as...

Tatsushi Matsubayashi,1,∗) Ryo Yamazaki,2,∗∗) Daisuke Yonetoku,3,∗∗∗) Toshio Murakami,3,†) and Toshikazu Ebisuzaki1,††) 1Ebisuzaki Computational Astrophysics laboratory, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) Hirosawa 2-1, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan 2Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560-0043, Japan 3Department of Physics, Kanazawa University, Kak...