Everything about GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: GBU-39 Small Diameter BombA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Dynamical Masses of the Primary Be Star and Secondary sdB Star in the Single-lined Binary κ Dra (B6 IIIe)Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The golden march of the province of GuwahatiThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Estimating Satellite-Derived Bathymetry (SDB) with the Google Earth Engine and Sentinel-2Cited 220 times
5. Go sideways: GBU-53/B StormBreakerA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Ground Launched Small Diameter BombA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Estimating Satellite-Derived Bathymetry (SDB) with the Google Earth Engine and Sentinel-2

  Dimosthenis Traganos, Dimitris Poursanidis, Bharat Aggarwal · 2018 · Remote Sensing · 220 citations

• THE sdB+M ECLIPSING SYSTEM HW VIRGINIS AND ITS CIRCUMBINARY PLANETS

  Jae Woo Lee, Seung-Lee Kim, Chun-Hwey Kim · 2009 · The Astronomical Journal · 187 citations

• Discovery and Asteroseismological Analysis of the Pulsating sdB Star PG 0014+067

  P. Brassard, G. Fontaine, M. Billeres · 2001 · The Astrophysical Journal · 126 citations

• Space‐Borne Cloud‐Native Satellite‐Derived Bathymetry (SDB) Models Using ICESat‐2 And Sentinel‐2

  N. Thomas, A. P. Pertiwi, D. Traganos · 2021 · Geophysical Research Letters · 125 citations

• Spectral analysis of sdB stars from the Hamburg Quasar Survey

  H. Edelmann, U. Heber, H.-J. Hagen · 2003 · Astronomy & Astrophysics · 124 citations

• The EC 14026 stars - VIII. PG 1336 - 018: a pulsating sdB star in an HW Vir-type eclipsing binary

  D. Kilkenny, D. O'Donoghue, C. Koen · 1998 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 113 citations

• Uptake and release of polar compounds in SDB-RPS Empore™ disks; implications for their use as passive samplers

  Melanie Shaw, Geoff Eaglesham, Jochen F. Mueller · 2009 · Chemosphere · 99 citations

• Abundance studies of sdB stars using UV echelle HST/STIS spectroscopy

  S. J. O'Toole, U. Heber · 2006 · Astronomy & Astrophysics · 86 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Dynamical Masses of the Primary Be Star and Secondary sdB Star in the Single-lined Binary κ Dra (B6 IIIe)

  Robert Klement, Dietrich Baade, Thomas Rivinius · 2022 · The Astrophysical Journal · 35 citations

• Incorporation of neighborhood information improves performance of SDB models

  Anders Knudby, Galen Richardson · 2023 · Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment · 23 citations

• A Mini-Review of Sludge-Derived Biochar (SDB) for Wastewater Treatment: Recent Advances in 2020–2025

  Lia Wang, Lan Liang, Ning Li · 2025 · Applied Sciences · 21 citations

• Physics-Based Satellite-Derived Bathymetry (SDB) Using Landsat OLI Images

  Minsu Kim, Jeff Danielson, Curt Storlazzi · 2024 · Remote Sensing · 21 citations

• Red cell distribution width (RDW) is correlated to time of oxygen desaturation < 90% and length of sleep apneas in patients with sleep disorder breathing (SDB) and acute heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)

  Cosimo A. Stamerra, Emilia D'Elia, Mauro Gori · 2023 · Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine · 14 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕The golden march of the province of Guwahati

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