After an astronomer, or a group of astronomers, make a new discovery or contribution to our knowledge, they have to convert their months-long or sometimes even years-long research project into a final, published document. In this page, I will introduce you to what a research paper looks like in astronomy, and I will also embed within the document a variety of hotkeys which will examine a number of issues that come up while a paper is being written. Because I can provide such in-depth commentary on my own research, I have chosen a paper that I wrote some years ago, and which was published in the Astrophysical Journal on July 15, 1987 : volumn 318, pages 702-711. This particular research paper consisted of the following sections which you can click on to bring up the relevant text and embedded hotkeys: First, you might want to read a short HISTORY explaining why I wrote the paper and what got me interested in this topic.
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This next section tells about submitting the paper, dealing with referee's and what finally became of the paper
Comments by the Referee
The Citation History
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