Exploring the variable sky with the sloan digital sky survey

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2236-2251

  Sesar, Branimir ^a   Ivezić, Željko ^a   Lupton, Robert H ^b   Jurić, Mario ^c   Gunn, James E ^b   Knapp, Gillian R ^b   De Lee, Nathan ^d   Smith, J Allyn ^e   Miknaitis, Gajus ^f   Lin, Huan ^f   Tucker, Douglas ^f   Doi, Mamoru ^g   Tanaka, Masayuki ^g   Fukugita, Masataka ^g   Holtzman, Jon ^h   Kent, Steve ^f   Yanny, Brian ^f   Schlegel, David ⁱ   Finkbeiner, Douglas ^j   Padmanabhan, Nikhil ⁱ   Rockosi, Constance M ^k   Bond, Nicholas ^b   Lee, Brian ⁱ   Stoughton, Chris ^f   Jester, Sebastian ^l   Harris, Hugh ^m   Hardmg, Paul ⁿ   Brinkmann, Jon ^o   Schneider, Donald P ^p   York, Donald ^q   Richmond, Michael W ^r   Berk, Daniel Vanden ^p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^h NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^m FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

ⁿ CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^p PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^r ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: stellar content; Quasars: general; Stars: Population II; Stars: variables: other

Indexed keywords

EID: 40249090284     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521819     Document Type: Article

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