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Aperture Photometry

Aperture photometry is a technique in stellar photometry that measures the flux of a celestial source by summing the detected photons within a defined circular or annular aperture centered on the object, while subtracting a local background estimate derived from an adjacent region.

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The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) Light Curve Server v1.0

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · 2017 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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Point‐Source Extraction with MOPEX

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · 2005 · 297 citations · Full text

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The Multiwavelength Survey by Yale‐Chile (MUSYC): Survey Design and Deep Public <i>UBVRI</i> <i>z</i> <i>′</i> Images and Catalogs of the Extended Hubble Deep Field–South

Eric Gawiser, Pieter van Dokkum, David Herrera et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2006 · 274 citations · Full text

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eleanor: An Open-source Tool for Extracting Light Curves from the <i>TESS</i> Full-frame Images

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · 2019 · 238 citations · Full text

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Two-dimensional aperture photometry - Signal-to-noise ratio of point-source observations and optimal data-extraction techniques

Steve B. Howell · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · 1989 · 217 citations · Full text

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    Xu Zhou

    National Astronomical Observatories, China

    6 publications · 182 citations

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    Hong Wu

    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    5 publications · 152 citations

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    Jun Ma

    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    5 publications · 164 citations

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    Xiangyan Yuan

    Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology, China

    5 publications · 168 citations

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  5. ZZ
    Zhenxi Zhu

    UNSW Sydney, Australia

    5 publications · 168 citations

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  1. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    18 h-index

    67 publications

    4.2K citations

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    14 h-index

    57 publications

    1.9K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    14 h-index

    134 publications

    14.8K citations

  4. Space Telescope Science Institute

    Baltimore, United States

    13 h-index

    32 publications

    1.8K citations

  5. National Astronomical Observatories

    Beijing, China

    12 h-index

    60 publications

    1.5K citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    12 h-index

    26 publications

    1.4K citations

  7. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    11 h-index

    30 publications

    3.6K citations

  8. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    11 h-index

    29 publications

    2.6K citations

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  1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    40 publications · 2.3K citations

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  2. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 30 publications · 1.3K citations

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  3. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 30 publications · 1.4K citations

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  4. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    29 publications · 1.5K citations

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  5. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

    20 publications · 1.2K citations

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