Catalog of strong MgII absorbers (Lawther+, 2012)

D. Lawther, Troels Paarup, Morten L. Schmidt, Marianne Vestergaard, J. Hjorth, D. Malesani

Abstract

Here we present a catalog of strong (rest equivalent width Wr> intervening Mg II absorbers in the SDSS Data Release 7 quasar catalog (2010AJ....139.2360S, Cat. VII/260). The intervening absorbers were found by a semi-automatic algorithm written in IDL - for details of the algorithm see section 2 of our paper. A subset of the absorbers have been visually inspected - see the MAN_OK flag in the catalog. The number of sightlines searched, tabulated by absorber redshift, i.e. g(z), is available as an ASCII table (for S/N>8 and S/N>15). All analysis in our paper is based on the SNR>8 coverage, and considers only sight-lines towards non-BAL quasars. Any questions regarding the catalog should be sent to Daniel Lawther (unclellama(at)gmail.com). (3 data files).
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftVizieR On-line Data Catalog
Vol/bind354
Sider (fra-til)69067
StatusUdgivet - 1 aug. 2012

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