The SDSS DLA Survey
These pages give tables and figures of DLA identified in the
SDSS. We also provide the papers of reference for this
material.
Data Products
- Published SDSS DR3 Table: This table gives
the DLA published in PHW05. Unfortunately, although we introduced an
algorithm to avoid having the OVI/Lyb QSO emission line from biasing our
g(z), the algorithm was not properly implemented for the results in this
paper. The overall effect is an increase of ~10% in f(N) at all redshifts.
- Corrected SDSS DR3 Table: This
table gives the correct DR3 results, corrected for the error described above.
- Proximate DLA
- DR5 DLA: This table gives the full
set of DLA from the DR5 which now includes a total of 739 DLAs
in the statistical sample and over 1000 DLAs total.
It is, of course, inclusive with the DR3. The key findings
were just published in Prochaska & Wolfe (2009).
My special thanks to Michael Murphy (Swinburne) who
identified mistakes in the a previous presentation of these data.
Publications
- DR1: Prochaska & Herbert-Fort (2004, PASP) [Preprint] [ADS]
- DR3: Prochaska, Herbert-Fort & Wolfe (2005, ApJ) [Preprint][ADS]
- Metal-strong DLA: Herbert-Fort, et al. (2006, PASP) [ADS]
- Proximate DLA: Prochaska, et al. (2008, ApJ) [ADS]
- DR5: Prochaska & Wolfe (2009, ApJ) [ADS]
This research is supported by the National Science Foundation
(AST 03-07824 and AST 05-48180).
e-mail: xavier at ucolick.org
modified 05/11/09