Photometric redshifts and quasar probabilities from a single, data-driven generative model

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 749, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bovy, Jo ^a   Myers, Adam D ^b,c   Hennawi, Joseph F ^c   Hogg, David W ^a,c   McMahon, Richard G ^d,e   Schiminovich, David ^f   Sheldon, Erin S ^g   Brinkmann, Jon ^h   Schneider, Donald P ⁱ   Weaver, Benjamin A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^g BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

ⁱ PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

catalogs; cosmology: observations; galaxies: distances and redshifts; galaxies: photometry; methods: data analysis; quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858976239     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/749/1/41     Document Type: Article

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