Think outside the color box: Probabilistic target selection and the SDSS-XDQSO quasar targeting catalog

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 729, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Bovy, Jo ^a   Hennawi, Joseph F ^b   Hogg, David W ^a,b   Myers, Adam D ^b,c   Kirkpatrick, Jessica A ^d   Schlegel, David J ^d   Ross, Nicholas P ^d   Sheldon, Erin S ^e   McGreer, Ian D ^f   Schneider, Donald P ^g   Weaver, Benjamin A ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

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

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

catalogs; galaxies: distances and redshifts; methods: statistical; quasars: general; stars: general; stars: statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952158782     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/729/2/141     Document Type: Article

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