Selecting quasars by their intrinsic variability

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 714, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1194-1208

  Schmidt, Kasper B ^a   Marshall, Philip J ^b,c   Rix, Hans Walter ^a   Jester, Sebastian ^a   Hennawi, Joseph F ^a   Dobler, Gregory ^d,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Methods: observational; Quasars: general; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951671940     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/714/2/1194     Document Type: Article

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