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MUSoDLA Dataset
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This document describes the MUSoDLA dataset.

Sources
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The Magellan uniform survey of damped Lya systems (MUSoDLA) sample is a set of
echelle and echellette spectra acquired by
`Jorgenson et al. (2013) <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.435..482J>`_
for the analysis of z=2-4 DLAs.
The majority of these were taken by the MuSE spectrometer
on the Magellan telescopes.
The DLAs were selected to be at z>=2.2 from the SDSS DR5 sample
in a uniform random way towards quasars
with i-band magnitudes <19 mag and declinations <+15 deg.

Meta Data
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The additional meta data provided better describe the
observation date of the spectra.


Spectra
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All of the data were continuum normalized by
`Jorgenson et al. (2013) <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.435..482J>`_.