| A fundamental relation between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies L Ferrarese, D Merritt The Astrophysical Journal 539 (1), L9, 2000 | 5678 | 2000 |
| Central masses and broad-line region sizes of active galactic nuclei. II. A homogeneous analysis of a large reverberation-mapping database BM Peterson, L Ferrarese, KM Gilbert, S Kaspi, MA Malkan, D Maoz, ... The Astrophysical Journal 613 (2), 682, 2004 | 2028 | 2004 |
| Empirical models for dark matter halos. I. Nonparametric construction of density profiles and comparison with parametric models D Merritt, AW Graham, B Moore, J Diemand, B Terzić The Astronomical Journal 132 (6), 2685, 2006 | 781 | 2006 |
| The ACS Virgo Cluster survey. XIII. SBF distance catalog and the three-dimensional structure of the Virgo Cluster S Mei, JP Blakeslee, P Côté, JL Tonry, MJ West, L Ferrarese, A Jordán, ... The Astrophysical Journal 655 (1), 144, 2007 | 764 | 2007 |
| Formation of galactic nuclei M Milosavljević, D Merritt The Astrophysical Journal 563 (1), 34, 2001 | 760 | 2001 |
| Supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei. II. Calibration of the black hole mass-velocity dispersion relationship for active galactic nuclei CA Onken, L Ferrarese, D Merritt, BM Peterson, RW Pogge, ... The Astrophysical Journal 615 (2), 645, 2004 | 729 | 2004 |
| The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. VI. Isophotal analysis and the structure of early-type galaxies L Ferrarese, P Côté, A Jordán, EW Peng, JP Blakeslee, S Piatek, S Mei, ... The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 164 (2), 334, 2006 | 662 | 2006 |
| The ACS virgo cluster survey. VIII. The nuclei of early-type galaxies P Côté, S Piatek, L Ferrarese, A Jordán, D Merritt, EW Peng, M Haşegan, ... The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 165 (1), 57, 2006 | 611 | 2006 |
| The M•-σ relation for supermassive black holes D Merritt, L Ferrarese The Astrophysical Journal 547 (1), 140, 2001 | 599 | 2001 |
| Large merger recoils and spin flips from generic black hole binaries M Campanelli, C Lousto, Y Zlochower, D Merritt The Astrophysical Journal 659 (1), L5, 2007 | 572 | 2007 |
| Maximum gravitational recoil M Campanelli, CO Lousto, Y Zlochower, D Merritt Physical Review Letters 98 (23), 231102, 2007 | 537 | 2007 |
| Black hole demographics from the M● − σ relation D Merritt, L Ferrarese Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 320 (3), L30-L34, 2001 | 486 | 2001 |
| The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. IX. The color distributions of globular cluster systems in early-type galaxies EW Peng, A Jordán, P Côté, JP Blakeslee, L Ferrarese, S Mei, MJ West, ... The Astrophysical Journal 639 (1), 95, 2006 | 481 | 2006 |
| Relaxation and tidal stripping in rich clusters of galaxies. II. Evolution of the luminosity distribution D Merritt Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 276, Jan. 1, 1984, p …, 1984 | 476 | 1984 |
| A fundamental relation between compact stellar nuclei, supermassive black holes, and their host galaxies L Ferrarese, P Côté, E Dalla Bontà, EW Peng, D Merritt, A Jordán, ... The Astrophysical Journal 644 (1), L21, 2006 | 468 | 2006 |
| Spherical stellar systems with spheroidal velocity distributions D Merritt Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 90, June 1985, p. 1027-1037. 90 …, 1985 | 442 | 1985 |
| Dynamics and evolution of galactic nuclei D Merritt Princeton University Press, 2013 | 430 | 2013 |
| Supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei. I. The consistency of black hole masses in quiescent and active galaxies L Ferrarese, RW Pogge, BM Peterson, D Merritt, A Wandel, CL Joseph The Astrophysical Journal 555 (2), L79, 2001 | 418 | 2001 |
| Revised rates of stellar disruption in galactic nuclei J Wang, D Merritt The Astrophysical Journal 600 (1), 149, 2004 | 415 | 2004 |
| Massive black hole binary evolution D Merritt, M Milosavljevic arXiv preprint astro-ph/0410364, 2004 | 396 | 2004 |
