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Exploring the Variable Sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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Branimir Sesar1, Željko Ivezić1, Robert H. Lupton2, Mario Jurić3, James E. Gunn2, Gillian R. Knapp2, Nathan De Lee4, J. Allyn Smith5, Gajus Miknaitis6, Huan Lin6, Douglas Tucker6, Mamoru Doi7, Masayuki Tanaka8, Masataka Fukugita9, Jon Holtzman10, Steve Kent6, Brian Yanny6, David Schlegel11, Douglas Finkbeiner12, Nikhil Padmanabhan11, Constance M. Rockosi13, Nicholas Bond2, Brian Lee11, Chris Stoughton6, Sebastian Jester14, Hugh Harris15, Paul Harding16, Jon Brinkmann17, Donald P. Schneider18, Donald York19, Michael W. Richmond20 and Daniel Vanden Berk18

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