The Ucsd/Keck Damped Lya Abundance Database: A Decade of High Resolution Spectroscopy

Abstract

We publish the Keck/HIRES and Keck/ESI spectra that we have obtained during the first 10 years of Keck observatory operations. Our full sample includes 42 HIRES spectra and 39 ESI spectra along 65 unique sightlines providing abundance measurements on ~85 damped Lya systems. The normalized data can be downloaded from the journal or from our supporting website: http://www.ucolick.org/~xavier/DLA/. The database includes all of the sightlines that have been included in our papers on the chemical abundances, kinematics, and metallicities of the damped Lya systems. This data has also been used to argue for variations in the fine-structure constant. We present new chemical abundance measurements for 10 damped Lya systems and a summary table of high-resolution metallicity measurements (including values from the literature) for 153 damped Lya systems at z>1.6. We caution, however, that this metallicity sample (and all previous ones) is biased to higher N(HI) values than a random sample.

55 pages, 11 figures. Accepted to ApJS. See http://www.ucolick.org/~xavier/DLA/ for the data

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