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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 6.

Color–color and color–magnitude distribution of objects in the training sets. Quasars are given in blue (75,382 objects). "Stars" are given in red (429,908 objects). The (linear) contour levels are relative to the peak in each sample.

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