A Vatican observatory, what on oxymoron. What do they need an observatory for, after they burned Giordano Bruno at the stake? And lucky for Gaileo they only sent him home and didn’t allow him to go out.
Well Cletus, here are some widely cited papers based on observations made at the VATT. Among the most cited works:
G. Hallinan and collaborators, including Fr. Boyle, “Periodic Bursts of Coherent Radio Emission from an Ultracool Dwarf ”, in The Astrophysical Journal, 2007 (144 citations).
Liese van Zee and collaborators, “Stellar Populations of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies: UBVRI Photometry of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster”, in The Astronomical Journal, 2004 (77 citations)
E. M. Corsini and collaborators, including Fr. Funes, “Dark matter in early-type spiral galaxies: the case of NGC 2179 and of NGC 2775”, in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1999 (76 citations).
E. Flaccomio and collaborators, “BVRI photometry of the star-forming region NGC 2264: the initial mass function and star-forming rate”, in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1999 (63 citations)
K. G. Strassmeier and collaborators, including Fr. Gabor, “PEPSI: The high-resolution échelle spectrograph and polarimeter for the Large Binocular Telescope”, in Astronomische Nachrichten, 2015 (62 citations)
Krzysztof Stanek and collaborators, “Rapid UBVRI Follow-up of the Highly Collimated Optical Afterglow of GRB 010222”, in The Astrophysical Journal, 2001 (51 citations)
Anne J. Verbiscer and collaborators, “Near-infrared spectra of the leading and trailing hemispheres of Enceladus”, in Icarus, 2006 (44 citations)