A description of quasar variability measured using repeated SDSS and poss imaging

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 753, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  MacLeod, Chelsea L ^a   Ivezić, Željko ^a   Sesar, Branimir ^b   De Vries, Wim ^c   Kochanek, Christopher S ^d   Kelly, Brandonc ^e   Becker, Andrew C ^a   Lupton, Robert H ^f   Hall, Patrick B ^g   Richards, Gordon T ^h   Anderson, Scott F ^a   Schneider, Donald P ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862837455     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/753/2/106     Document Type: Review

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