Robust machine learning applied to astronomical data sets. III. Probabilistic photometric redshifts for galaxies and quasars in the SDSS and GALEX

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 683, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-21

  Ball, Nicholas M ^a   Brunner, Robert J ^a   Myers, Adam D ^a   Strand, Natalie E ^b   Alberts, Stacey L ^a   Tcheng, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalogs; Cosmology: miscellaneous; Methods: data analysis; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 49449118343     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589646     Document Type: Article

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