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Description
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has observed more than a quarter of the sky over eight years of operations, obtaining multicolor photometry and spectroscopy for ~ 1 million of galaxies. A catalog of photometric redshifts for ~ 2 millions quasars with magnitude r < 20.7 extracted from the SDSS DR7 dataset (D'Abrusco et al, 2009) is provided here. The photometric redshifts and the uncertainty of the estimates for each sources have been calculated using the Weak Gated Expert (WGE) method. The WGE (Laurino et al., submitted to MNRAS) is based on the exploitation of the spectroscopic redshifts for a subset of photometric sources and derives photometric redshifts through a combination of data mining techniques. This method can be applied to different classes of extragalactic sources and is scalable. A set of observational parameters used for the evaluation of photometric redshifts, the estimated photometric redshifts values and some of the most common observational parameters retrieved from the SDSS database have been included in the catalog for the sake of simplicity.
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