HSTQSO Dataset

This document describes the HSTQSO dataset.

Sources

Ribaudo et al. (2011) and Neelman et al. (2016) compiled nearly the entire set of UV spectra of quasars and AGN available in the HST archive at the time of their respective analyses to survey for Lyman limit and damped Lya systems (respectively). This includes the Faint Object Spectrometer dataset compiled by Bechtold et al. (2002), spectra from GHRS and STIS, and a new compilation of COS spectra (Lehner et al., in prep.).

Meta Data

The meta data include alternate QSO names. For the COS spectra, we include a combined G130M and G160M where applicable and report the DATE-OBS of the G130M data.

Spectra

All data were reduced with the standard HST pipelines. The COS spectra were coadded with custom algorithms (see Lehner et al., in prep).