| Extremely red Kuiper-belt objects in near-circular orbits beyond 40 AU SC Tegler, W Romanishin Nature 407 (6807), 979-981, 2000 | 211 | 2000 |
| Two distinct populations of Kuiper-belt objects SC Tegler, W Romanishin Nature 392 (6671), 49-51, 1998 | 182 | 1998 |
| Color patterns in the Kuiper belt: A possible primordial origin SC Tegler, W Romanishin, SJ GJ Consolmagno The Astrophysical Journal 599 (1), L49, 2003 | 112 | 2003 |
| Evidence for chemical processing of precometary icy grains in circumstellar environments of pre-main-sequence stars SC Tegler, DA Weintraub, TW Rettig, YJ Pendleton, DCB Whittet, ... The Astrophysical Journal 439 (1), 279-287, 1995 | 105 | 1995 |
| Comet outbursts and polymers of HCN TW Rettig, SC Tegler, DJ Pasto, MJ Mumma The Astrophysical Journal 398, 293-298, 1992 | 93 | 1992 |
| Nitrogen abundance in comet Halley S Wyckoff, SC Tegler, L Engel The Astrophysical Journal 367, 641, 1991 | 90 | 1991 |
| Deep photometry of grb 041006 afterglow: hypernova bump at redshift z= 0.716 KZ Stanek, PM Garnavich, PA Nutzman, JD Hartman, A Garg, ... The Astrophysical Journal 626 (1), L5, 2005 | 85 | 2005 |
| Color properties and trends of the transneptunian objects A Doressoundiram, H Boehnhardt, SC Tegler, C Trujillo The solar system beyond Neptune 91, 2008 | 83 | 2008 |
| Resolution of the Kuiper belt object color controversy: two distinct color populations SC Tegler, W Romanishin Icarus 161 (1), 181-191, 2003 | 79 | 2003 |
| Methane and nitrogen abundances on Pluto and Eris SC Tegler, DM Cornelison, WM Grundy, W Romanishin, MR Abernathy, ... The Astrophysical Journal 725 (1), 1296, 2010 | 76 | 2010 |
| NH2 fluorescence efficiencies and the NH3 abundance in Comet Halley S Tegler, S Wyckoff The Astrophysical Journal 343, 445-449, 1989 | 66 | 1989 |
| Rotation rates of Kuiper-belt objects from their light curves W Romanishin, SC Tegler Nature 398 (6723), 129-132, 1999 | 62 | 1999 |
| Detection of the 2165 inverse centimeter (4.619 micron) XCN band in the spectrum of L1551 IRS 5 SC Tegler, DA Weintraub, LJ Allamandola, SA Sandford, TW Rettig, ... The Astrophysical Journal 411 (1), 260-265, 1993 | 62 | 1993 |
| Abundances in Comet Halley at the time of the spacecraft encounters S Wyckoff, S Tegler, PA Wehinger, H Spinrad, MJS Belton The Astrophysical Journal 325, 927-938, 1988 | 60 | 1988 |
| Ammonia abundances in four comets S Wyckoff, SC Tegler, L Engel Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 368, Feb. 10, 1991, p …, 1991 | 59 | 1991 |
| Optical spectroscopy of the large Kuiper belt objects 136472 (2005 FY9) and 136108 (2003 EL61) SC Tegler, WM Grundy, W Romanishin, GJ Consolmagno, K Mogren, ... The Astronomical Journal 133 (2), 526, 2007 | 57 | 2007 |
| Infrared spectroscopy and imaging polarimetry of the disk around the T Tauri star RNO 91 DA Weintraub, SC Tegler, JH Kastner, T Rettig The Astrophysical Journal 423, 674-680, 1994 | 56 | 1994 |
| Evidence of N2-ice on the surface of the icy dwarf Planet 136472 (2005 FY9) SC Tegler, WM Grundy, F Vilas, W Romanishin, DM Cornelison, ... Icarus 195 (2), 844-850, 2008 | 53 | 2008 |
| Accurate absolute magnitudes for Kuiper belt objects and Centaurs W Romanishin, SC Tegler Icarus 179 (2), 523-526, 2005 | 51 | 2005 |
| Two color populations of Kuiper belt and Centaur objects and the smaller orbital inclinations of red Centaur objects SC Tegler, W Romanishin, SJ GJ Consolmagno The Astronomical Journal 152 (6), 210, 2016 | 48 | 2016 |
