HST Composite QSO Spectra

I have made available here the composite HST QSO spectra from "The Rest-Frame Extreme Ultraviolet Spectral Properties of QSOs" by Telfer et al., ApJ, 565, 773. See the paper for details. All of the spectra are in the same format:

line 1:	A brief description of the composite
line 2:	#pixels
lines 3+:	wavelength flux error

Wavelengths are in Angstroms, fluxes are F_lambda relative to the flux level at around 1100 Angstroms, and the errors are the propagated statistical errors. Below are the files and a brief description of each.

hst_comp01_all.asc - the overall composite, radio-loud + radio-quiet, in bins of 1 Angstrom.
hst_comp01_rl.asc - composite of radio-loud objects in bins of 1 Angstrom.
hst_comp01_rq.asc - composite of radio-quiet objects in bins of 1 Angstrom.
HST_composite.tar.gz - a gzipped tarball of the above three files.
HST_composite_bin01.tar.gz - a gzipped tarball of the same three spectra, but in bins of 0.1 Angstroms.
hstrq_sdss.asc - a combination of the HST radio-quiet composite and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey median composite. Below 1275 Angstroms this is the HST composite, above 2000 Angstroms it is the Sloan composite, and in between it is the mean of the two. This may be useful if you just want a generic RQ QSO spectrum that covers from 300 to 8500 Angstroms.

Randal C. Telfer