Modeling the time variability of SDSS Stripe 82 quasars as a damped random walk

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 721, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1014-1033

  MacLeod, C L ^a   Ivezic Z ^a   Kochanek, C S ^b   Kozllowski S ^b   Kelly, B ^c   Bullock, E ^a   Kimball, A ^a   Sesar, B ^a   Westman, D ^a,d   Brooks, K ^a   Gibson, R ^a   Becker, A C ^a   De Vries, W H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149269663     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/721/2/1014     Document Type: Article

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