Five high-redshift quasars discovered in commissioning imaging data of the sloan digital sky survey

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1607-1611

  Zheng, Wei ^a   Tsvetanov, Zlatan I ^a   Schneider, Donald P ^b   Fan, Xiaohui ^c   Becker, Robert H ^d   Davis, Marc ^e   White, Richard L ^f   Strauss, Michael A ^c   Anderson Jr , John E ^g   Annis, James ^g   Bahcall, Neta A ^c   Connolly, A J ^h   Csabai, István ^a,i   Davidsen, Arthur F ^a   Fukugita, Masataka ^j,k   Gunn, James E ^c   Heckman, Timothy M ^a   Hennessy, G S ^l   Ivezić, Željko ^c   Knapp, G R ^c   Lupton, Robert H ^c   Peng, Eric ^a   Szalay, Alexander S ^a   Thakar, Aniruddha R ^a   Yanny, Brian ^g   York, Donald G ^m   more..

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f STScI   (United States)

^g FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

ⁱ EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^k INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^l US NAVAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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Author keywords

Quasars: general; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 17644436189     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301570     Document Type: Review

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