Cleaning the USNO-B catalog through automatic detection of optical artifacts

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 414-422

  Barron, Jonathan T ^a   Stumm, Christopher ^a   Hogg, David W ^b   Lang, Dustin ^a   Roweis, Sam ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Catalogs; Methods: statistical; Standards; Techniques: image processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849115208     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/135/1/414     Document Type: Article

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