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Originally Posted by wollery
Astro-ph does not require any peer review, it's just a place for people to post their own papers, sometimes before they've even been submitted to a regular journal. I've seen articles on astro-ph that were simple rebuttals to articles posted there by other researchers. Appearance on astro-ph signifies nothing.
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I wouldn't go that far. They won't let you post on astro-ph if you try putting too many articles on there that haven't been through peer review. This particular article was submitted to ApJ and will probably be updated once it has been accepted. Most of the articles on astro-ph have been accepted for publication in a journal or conference proceedings.
Although - I do think its becoming more common for researchers to submit their papers to astro-ph before they've been accepted by a journal.
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