Frequently, one is asked to undertake the Herculean task of
ranking their papers. I must confess that I suffer from
attention deficit and only two of my papers are synthesis
or required a significant attention.  Below I list my
top publications (roughly rank ordered)

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Backer, D. C., Kulkarni, S. R., Heiles, C. E., Davis, M. M. and Goss,
W. M. <br>
Nature, 300, 615 (1982) <br>
``A Millisecond Pulsar''

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Kulkarni, S. R. <br>
Astrophysical Journal, 306, L85 (1986) <br>
``Optical Identification of Binary Pulsars: Implications for Magnetic
Field Decay in Neutron Stars''

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Kulkarni, S. R. and Hester, J. J. <br>
Nature, 335, 801 (1988) <br>
``Discovery of a Nebula around PSR 1957+20''

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Kulkarni, S. R. and Frail, D. A. <br>
Nature, 365, 33 (1993)
``Identification of a supernova remnant coincident with the soft
gamma-ray repeater SGR 1806-20''

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Nakajima, T., Oppenheimer, B. R., Kulkarni, S. R., Golimowski, D. A.,
Matthews, K. and Durrance, S. <br>
Nature, 378, 463 (1995) <br>
``Discovery of a cool brown dwarf''

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Metzger, M. R., Djorgovski, S. G., Kulkarni, S. R., Steidel, C. C.,
Adelberger, K. L., Frail, D. A., Costa, E. and Frontera, E. <br>
Nature, 387, 878 (1997) <br>
``Spectral constraints on the redshift of the optical counterpart
to the gamma-ray burst of 8 May 1997''

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Frail, D. A., Kulkarni, S. R., Nicastro, L., Feroci, M. and
Taylor, G. B. <br>
Nature, 389, 263 <br>
``The radio afterglow from the gamma-ray burst of May 8, 1997''

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Kulkarni, S. R., Frail, D. A., Wieringa, M. H., Ekers, R. D.,
Sadler, E. M., Wark, R. M., Higdon, J. L.,
Phinney, E. S. and Bloom, J. S. <br>
Nature, 395, 663 (1998) <br>
``The gamma-ray burst of 980425 and its association with the
extra-ordinary radio emission from a most unusual supernova''

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Lane, B. F., Kuchner, M. J., Boden, A. F., Creech-Eakman, M.
and Kulkarni, S. R. <br>
Nature, 407, 485 (2000) <br>
``Direct detection of pulsations from the Cepheid Zeta Geminorum
and direct calibration of the Cepheid Period-Luminosity relation''

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Frail, D. A., Kulkarni, S. R., Sari, R. et al. <br>
Astrophysical Journal, 562, 55 (2001) <br>
``Beaming in gamma-ray bursts: Evidence for a Standard Energy
Resorvoir''

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Lyne, A. G., Brinklow, A., Middleditch, J., Kulkarni, S. R.,
Backer, D. C. and Clifton, T. R. (1987)<br>
Nature, 328, 399 <br>
``The Discovery of a Millisecond Pulsar in the Globular Cluster M28''

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Hulleman, F., van Kerkwijk, M. H. and Kulkarni, S. R. <br>
Nature, 408, 689 (2000) <br>
``An optical counterpart to the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 4U 0142+61''

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Bloom, J. S., Kulkarni, S. R., Djorgovski, S. G., Eichelberger, A. C.
et al. <br>
Nature, 401, 453 (1999) <br>
``The unusual afterglow of GRB 980326: evidence for the
gamma-ray burst/supernova connection''


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van Kerkwijk, M. H. and Kulkarni, S. R. <br>
Astrophysical Journal, 516, L25 <br>
``A Massive White Dwarf Companionn to the Eccentric Binary
Pulsar System PSR B2303+46''

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van Kerkwijk, M. and Kulkarni, S. R. <br>
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 380, 221 (2001)<br>
``An ususual H-alpha nebula around RX J1856.5-3754''

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Kulkarni, S. R., Djorgovski, S. G., Ramaprakash, A. N.,
Goodrich, R., Bloom J. S. et al. <br>
Nature, 393, 35 (1998)
``Identification of a host galaxy at redshift z=3.42 for the 
gamma-ray burst of 14 December 1997''

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Kulkarni, S. R. and Heiles, C. E. <br>
Galactic and Extragalactic Radio Astronomy, Eds. K. I. Kellerman
and G. L. Verschuur, Springer-Verlag, 95 (1988) <br>
``HI and the the Diffuse Interstellar Medium''

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Kulkarni, S. R. <br>
Astronomical Journal, 98, 112 (1989) <br>
``Self Noise in Inteferometer: Radio and Infrared''

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