Everything about M55

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: M55A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Isochrone fitting of Galactic globular clusters – V. NGC 6397 and NGC 6809 (M55)Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Admirable CrichtonThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: RR Lyrae Variables in the Globular Cluster M55. The First Evidence for Nonradial Pulsations in RR Lyrae StarsCited 63 times
5. Go sideways: M14A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: M13A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• RR Lyrae Variables in the Globular Cluster M55. The First Evidence for Nonradial Pulsations in RR Lyrae Stars

  A. Olech, J. Kaluzny, I. B. Thompson · 1999 · The Astronomical Journal · 63 citations

• Light-Induced Dynamic Changes of NADPH Fluorescence in Synechocystis PCC 6803 and Its ndhB-Defective Mutant M55

  Hualing Mi, Christof Klughammer, Ulrich Schreiber · 2000 · Plant and Cell Physiology · 57 citations

• Testing Newtonian gravity with AAOmega: mass-to-light profiles and metallicity calibrations from 47 Tuc and M55

  Richard R. Lane, László L. Kiss, Geraint F. Lewis · 2010 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 47 citations

• The cyanogen distributions in NGC 3201, M55, and M71

  G. H. Smith, J. Norris · 1982 · The Astrophysical Journal · 46 citations

• The Surprising External Upturn of the Blue Straggler Radial Distribution in M55

  B. Lanzoni, E. Dalessandro, S. Perina · 2007 · The Astrophysical Journal · 45 citations

• An analysis of G-band strengths in NGC 6397 and M55 red giants

  Michael M. Briley, R. A. Bell, Susan Hoban · 1990 · The Astrophysical Journal · 44 citations

• X-ray and optical observations of M55 and NGC 6366: evidence for primordial binaries

  C. G. Bassa, D. Pooley, F. Verbunt · 2008 · Astronomy & Astrophysics · 36 citations

• Automated star counts in the southern globular cluster NGC 6809 (M55)

  M. J. Irwin, V. Trimble · 1984 · The Astronomical Journal · 33 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Isochrone fitting of Galactic globular clusters – V. NGC 6397 and NGC 6809 (M55)

  George A Gontcharov, Charles J Bonatto, Olga S Ryutina · 2023 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 13 citations

• M55. A PHENOTYPE-BASED APPROACH FOR PRIORITIZING CANDIDATE GENETIC VARIANTS FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

  Idan Menashe, Noam Levi, Mor Dekel · 2025 · European Neuropsychopharmacology · 0 citations

• A main sequence CH-star in the globular cluster M55 (NGC 6809)

  Gary S. Da Costa, Thomas Nordlander · 2025 · Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia · 0 citations

• A Novel L-Asparaginase from Enterobacter sp. Strain M55 from Maras Salterns in Peru

  Abad Hurtado, Juan Carlos Flores-Santos, Carol Nathali Flores-Fernández · 2022 · Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Admirable CrichtonJ. M. Barrie · 1900
• Memories of a Catholic girlhoodMary McCarthy, Andrés Bosch · 1957
• The Craft of Research (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb · 1995
• PerceptronsMarvin Minsky, Seymour Papert · 1969
• 300Frank Miller · 1999
• Sin CityFrank Miller · 1996
• Action ResearchGeoffrey E. Mills · 1999
• Research methodologyRanjit Kumar · 1995

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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