Efficient photometric selection of quasars from the sloan digital sky survey. II. ∼1,000,000 quasars from data release 6

Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-83

  Richards, Gordon T ^a,b   Myers, Adam D ^c   Gray, Alexander G ^d   Riegel, Ryan N ^d   Nichol, Robert C ^e   Brunner, Robert J ^c   Szalay, Alexander S ^b   Schneider, Donald P ^f   Anderson, Scott F ^g  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalogs; General; Quasars

Indexed keywords

EID: 66649132665     PISSN: 00670049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/180/1/67     Document Type: Article

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