A modified magnitude system that produces well-behaved magnitudes, colors, and errors even for low signal-to-noise ratio measurements

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1406-1410

  Lupton, Robert H ^a   Gunn, James E ^a   Szalay, Alexander S ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalogs; Methods: statistical; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000941521     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301004     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. Fan X. et al. 1999a, AJ, 118, 1
2. Fan X. et al. 1999b, in preparation
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