A simple likelihood method for quasar target selection

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 743, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^f BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmology: observations; galaxies: distances and redshifts; large scale structure of universe; methods: statistical; quasars: general; stars: general; stars: statistics; surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455262287     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/743/2/125     Document Type: Article

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