Hi friends,
A small information to encourage.
Eiichiro Komatsu is one of the young brains, among the best, in WMAP team.
Please explore his home page and especially the contents (talks, same class, tips etc..) in it.
Example: His paper (Feb,2009) got 2000 citations..
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJS..180..330KBelow is the link:
http://gyudon.as.utexas.edu/~komatsu/
To know the details about "WMAP" Satellite
Go through the link to the home page of Prof. Spergel
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~dns/
Ex: Spergel is the first author for the 4th top cited paper in Astrophysics
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ApJS..148..175SLink to the top cited papers:
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=FIND+TOPCITE+4000%2B&FORMAT=www&SEQUENCE=citecount(d)
Finally, Joanna Dunkley, a very young brain in WMAP team and a nice speaker too.
Her paper (Feb, 2009) also got cited for 847 times....
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJS..180..306D
Link to her home page:
http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/users/dunkley/The citations vs time period showing the competetive world.
Best Regards,
Bharat.