A new extensive catalog of optically variable active galactic nuclei in the goods fields and a new statistical approach to variability selection

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 723, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 737-754

  Villforth, Carolin ^a,b   Koekemoer, Anton M ^a   Grogin, Norman A ^a  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Active quasars; Catalogs galaxies; General

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349299773     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/723/1/737     Document Type: Article

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