Improved background subtraction for the sloan digital sky survey images

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Blanton, Michael R ^a   Kazin, Eyal ^a   Muna, Demitri ^a   Weaver, Benjamin A ^a   Price Whelan, Adrian ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

atmospheric effects; galaxies: photometry; methods: data analysis; techniques: image processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959927040     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/142/1/31     Document Type: Article

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