''The Astronomical Journal'' (often abbreviated ''AJ'' in scientific papers and references) is a

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monthly

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owned by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and currently published by IOP Publishing. It is one of the premier journals for astronomy in the world. Until 2008, the journal was published by the

University of Chicago Press The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including '' The Chicago Manual of Style'' ...

on behalf of the AAS. The reasons for the change to the IOP were given by the society as the desire of the University of Chicago Press to revise its financial arrangement and their plans to change from the particular software that had been developed in-house. The other two publications of the society, the ''

Astrophysical Journal ''The Astrophysical Journal'', often abbreviated ''ApJ'' (pronounced "ap jay") in references and speech, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of astrophysics and astronomy, established in 1895 by American astronomers George Ellery Hale and Jam ...

'' and its supplement series, followed in January 2009. The journal was established in 1849 by

Benjamin A. Gould Benjamin Apthorp Gould (September 27, 1824 – November 26, 1896) was a pioneering American astronomer. He is noted for creating the ''Astronomical Journal'', discovering the Gould Belt, and for founding of the Argentine National Observatory an ...

. It ceased publication in 1861 due to the

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, but resumed in 1885. Between 1909 and 1941 the journal was edited in Albany, New York. In 1941, editor Benjamin Boss arranged to transfer responsibility for the journal to the AAS. The first electronic edition of ''The Astronomical Journal'' was published in January, 1998. With the July, 2006 issue, ''The Astronomical Journal'' began ''e-first'' publication, an electronic version of the journal released independently of the hardcopy issues. As of 2016 all of the scientific AAS journals were placed under a single editor-in-chief. On January 1, 2022, the AAS Journals, including AJ, transitioned to Gold open access model, with all new papers released under a

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license and access restrictions and subscription charges removed from previously published papers.

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* 2016–present Ethan Vishniac * 2005–2015 John Gallagher III * 1984–2004

Paul W. Hodge Paul W. Hodge ( - ) was an American astronomer whose principal area of research was the stellar populations of galaxies. Education & Employment Born in Seattle, Washington on November 8, 1934, Hodge grew up in the neighboring town of Snohomis ...

* 1980–1983

N. H. Baker Norman H. Baker was a professor of astrophysics at Columbia University. He was born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota on October 23, 1931, and died on October 11, 2005, in Watertown, New York. His research primarily involved computational investigations ...

* 1975–1979

and

L. B. Lucy Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, th ...

* 1967–1974 Lodewijk Woltjer (with Baker and Lucy for later volumes) * 1966–1967 Gerald Maurice Clemence"The Astronomical Journal at Yale: in Context with Before and After"
by Dorrit Hoffleit, The Astronomical Journal, 117:9-11, 1999 January * 1965–1966 Dirk Brouwer and Gerald Maurice Clemence * 1963–1965 Dirk Brouwer * 1959–1963 Dirk Brouwer and Harlan James Smith * 1941–1959 Dirk Brouwer * 1912–1941 Benjamin Boss * 1909–1912 Lewis Boss * 1896–1909 Seth Carlo Chandler * 1885–1896

, Jr. * 1849–1861

, Jr.

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Scanned issues (1849-1997) from ADS
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