1. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey QSO absorption line catalogue
- Author
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Britt Lundgren, Edward B. Jenkins, Alexander S. Szalay, David J. Schlegel, Natela Shanidze, Pushpa Khare, James T. Lauroesch, Jean M. Quashnock, Daniel E. Welty, Craig J. Hogan, Avery Meiksin, Abhishek Kumar, Daniel Kunstz, Chris Stoughton, Brian Yanny, Timothy M. Heckman, David A. Turnshek, Masaaka Fukugita, Osamu Nakamura, Josh Frieman, Daniel E. Vanden Berk, Yusra AlSayyad, Brice Ménard, Robert J. Brunner, Donald G. York, Mark SubbaRao, Gordon T. Richards, Matthew Wood, Francisco J. Castander, Martin Lemoine, Robert C. Nichol, Jon Loveday, Scott Burles, Mariangela Bernardi, Arlin P. S. Crotts, Lewis M. Hobbs, Lam Hui, Donald P. Schneider, Patrick B. Hall, Britt Baugher, Johnny Vanlandingham, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Michael L. Stein, and Jon Brinkmann
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Data products ,Space and Planetary Science ,Sky ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astronomy ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Spectral line ,Redshift ,Mathematics ,media_common - Abstract
The spectra of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) are being used to construct a catalogue of QSO absorption lines, for use in studies of abundances, relevant radiation fields, number counts as a function of redshift, and other matters, including the evolution of these parameters. The catalogue includes intervening, associated, and BAL absorbers, in order to allow a clearer definition of the relationships between these three classes. We describe the motivation for and the data products of the project to build the SDSS QSO absorption line catalogue.
- Published
- 2005