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Efficient Photometric Selection of Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. II. ∼1,000,000 Quasars from Data Release 6

  • Authors: Gordon T. Richards, Adam D. Myers, Alexander G. Gray, Ryan N. Riegel, Robert C. Nichol, Robert J. Brunner, Alexander S. Szalay, Donald P. Schneider, and Scott F. Anderson

RICHARDS et al. 2009 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 180 67.

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Caption: Figure 16.

Spectroscopic redshift distribution of known quasars in 11 different bins of photometric redshift. Bins are chosen to match those of the Richards et al. (2006) quasar luminosity function. Some photometric redshift bins are quite robust (e.g., 1.06 < z phot < 1.44), while others have large spreads or catastrophic errors (e.g., 2.5 < z phot < 3.0). The mean redshift of each bin is given in each panel along with the fraction of objects within the redshift range explored (top and bottom numbers, respectively).

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