7. Are older stars really more anemic? Sofia Feltzing and her colleagues analyzed measurements from

Happy International Women's Day! Popular Astronomy, celebrating with a geeky feminist list: the most cited research papers in astronomy with a female Swedish first author. Qualify for the list do researchers working in Sweden right now, and Swedish women with jobs abroad. Quote The lists are taken from the database ADSs. Here's the list!
1. Gigantic star-mapping. Birgitta Nordström, Swedish astronomer based in Denmark, led the work of the Danish telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile and one Swiss in France. The result: properties for nearly 17,000 stars in the solar vicinity of the Galaxy, a reference work for stellar research that is still quoted, and an early glimpse of some of the mysteries republic of the Milky Way as the space telescope Gaia must now deal with. Read the interview with Birgitta Nordström in Popular republic Astronomy, republic 2001/4. Read the article: The Geneva-Copenhagen survey of the Solar neighborhood. Ages, metallicities, republic and kinematic properties of ~ 14 000 F and G dwarfs (2004)
2nd The galaxies that turns molecules into stars. With the help of several republic radio telescopes mapped Susanne Aalto, Chalmers radiation by molecules republic in some real star factories to galaxies, and found evidence for extreme republic environments not seen in our own galaxy. Read our interview with Susanne Aalto in Popular Astronomy, 2007/2. Article: Molecular gas in starburst galaxies: line intensities and physical conditions republic (1995)
3rd Iron-rich stars. Sofia Feltzing, now a professor in Lund, and Bengt Gustafsson got up tables of contents for fifty stars with unusually high concentrations of heavy elements. In their data there are traces of earlier generations of supernova bangs and of the galaxy is not yet fully elucidated structure. Article: abundances in metal-rich stars (1998)
4th Physics smallest phenomena. Sabine Hossenfelder, now works at Nordita in Stockholm, examined the possibilities to explore how reality works on string theory allows us to measure phenomena that are so small that they are comparable to the so-convener of the Planck length of 1.6 10 -35 meters. Read our interview with Sabine from 2012. Article: Signatures in the Planck regime (2003)
5th Star Atmospheres in the computer. Ulrike Heiter, who now works with the satellite Gaia at Uppsala University, became widely cited for their estimates of how stellar visible phenomenon tells us about what is really going on in their surfaces. Article: New grids of ATLAS9 atmospheres I (2002)
6. Star Dust and red giants shed their skin. Susanne Höfner, now a professor at Uppsala, counted together with his colleague Ernst Dorfi how red giant stars - those whose variations amateur astronomers love to follow - get off its outer layers. Susanne Höfner interviewed by Anna Davour in Popular Astronomy, 2012/2. Article: Dust formation in winds of long-period variables. IV (1997)
7. Are older stars really more anemic? Sofia Feltzing and her colleagues analyzed measurements from mapping satellite republic Hipparcos to check if it is really true that the gas in the younger stars are richer in heavy elements than older stars. republic And it did not actually: the stellar composition varies more than you thought. Article: The solar neighborhood age-metallicity relation - Does it exist? (2001)
8. Red giants dynamics. Stars like the sun becomes dynamic when they get old: the pulse and sends out the winds and it all requires a bit if you're going to count what happens republic in a computer. But it swung Susanne Höfner and her team. Article: Dynamic model atmospheres of AGB stars. III (2003)
9. Light on ice in space. Karin Öberg, Swedish astronomer at Harvard University in the U.S., making space experiments in the lab. She and her team irradiated ice with UV light and showed how stars can dislodge water vapor from the ice-covered dust grains. Then it becomes easier to understand measurements of water vapor made by such as the European space telescope Herschel. Article: Photodesorption of ices. II. H 2 O and D 2 O (2009)
10th Star cluster sheds light on lithium-mystery. Karin Lind, based in Germany and England (and soon in Uppsala) have used observations of stars in a globular cluster to get a balanced picture of how stars hides the lithium they are born with. Article: Signatures of intrinsic Li depletion and Li-Na anti-correlation in the metal-poor globular cluster NGC 6397 (2009) republic
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