Laor & Brandt (2002) Data Page

This WWW page includes the UV spectra of the 56 PG AGN analyzed for intrinsic absorption by Laor & Brandt (2002).

There are two tar files in this directory:

allfig.tar - 56 files which use the SM plotting package to generate plots of the C IV, Ly alpha, and N V line profiles for each object. In a few cases other lines are drawn. The name convention is fig.pgxxxx where xxxx are the first 4 digits of the object's PG name. There are three additional files: fig.weak1, fig.int1, fig.low1, which generate Figures 1, 2, 3 of Laor & Brandt (2002). The important quantities in these files are the wavelength shifts applied to the spectra, which are based on ISM absorption lines (see the paper). The last three files have the final values for each object (these may slightly differ from the values in the 56 object files).

alldata.tar.gz - 105 data files with UV spectra in the format lambda, f_lambda. These are mostly HST FOS spectra. We coadded data if more than one exposure per grating was found in the archives, excluding cases where the different exposures show significant variability or very different S/N. No Galactic extinction corrections or wavelength shifts were applied to the data. Wavelength corrections based on ISM absorption lines appear in the SM plotting commands.

Also, as a bonus, here are some precise redshifts for PG quasars.