Southern Sample: File Format

The following table describes the format of the data file DB_QSO_S82.dat:

Field (Column)	Format	Units	Label	Explanations
1	I7	---	dbID	The name of the lightcurve file
2	F10.6	deg	RA	Median Right Ascension in decimal degrees (J2000)
3	F10.6	deg	DEC	Median Declination in decimal degrees (J2000)
4	I5	---	SDR5ID	Row of Schneider catalog (out of 77429) corresponding to that QSO
5	F7.3	mag	M_i	K-corrected absolute i band magnitude (same as "iMag" in master file) (9)
6	F7.3	mag	M_i_corr	Absolute i band magnitude, k-corrected to z=2(1)
7	F6.4	---	redshift	Redshift
8	F5.3	log(M/Msun)	mass_BH(log(M/M_sun))	Black hole mass ('0.000' means none could be found) (1)
9	F6.3	log(ergs/s)	Lbol(log(ergs/s))	Bolometric luminosity(1)
10	F6.3	mag	u	SDSS BEST u band PSF magnitude (2)
11	F6.3	mag	g	SDSS BEST g band PSF magnitude (2)
12	F6.3	mag	r	SDSS BEST r band PSF magnitude (2)
13	F6.3	mag	i	SDSS BEST i band PSF magnitude (2)
14	F6.3	mag	z	SDSS BEST z band PSF magnitude (2)
15	F6.3	mag	Au	Galactic absorption in u band (3)

Note (1): Taken from the Shen et al. (2008) catalog. A value of '-1' indicates a
newly confirmed DR7 quasar, and thus is not present in Shen et al.(2008)
(although it will likely be present in the latest catalog in Shen et al. 2011).
Note (2): SDSS photometric measurements are asinh magnitudes (Lupton, Gunn,
    and Szalay 1999, AJ, 118, 1406) and are normalized (to ~3% accuracy)
    to the AB-magnitude system (Oke and Gunn 1983, ApJ, 266, 713). Note
    that the ugriz magnitudes are not corrected for Galactic absorption.
    A "0.000" indicates that the value couldn't be retrieved from
    the SDSS database.
Note (3): Where A_g, A_r, A_i, A_z = 0.736, 0.534, 0.405, 0.287 x A_u.
Note (9): For H_o = 70.0, {Omega}_M = 0.300, {Omega}_L = 0.700, {alpha}_Q = -0.50.

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