The Kilo-Degree Survey

Experimental Astronomy

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 25-44

  de Jong, Jelte T A ^a   Verdoes Kleijn, Gijs A ^b   Kuijken, Konrad H ^a   Valentijn, Edwin A ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Photometric redshifts; Survey system; VLT VST; Weak gravitational lensing; Wide field imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873707056     PISSN: 09226435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-012-9306-1     Document Type: Article

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