Dust, Metals and Diffuse Interstellar Bands in Damped Lyman Alpha Systems

Details Dust, Metals and Diffuse Interstellar Bands in Damped Lyman Alpha Systems Dust, Metals and Diffuse Interstellar Bands in Damped Lyman Alpha Systems

2006-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609530v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures. To appear in proceedings of "The Metal-Rich Universe", (La Palma, June 2006), eds. G. Israelian and G. Mey

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Although damped Lyman alpha (DLA) systems are usually considered metal-poor, it has been suggested that this could be due to observational bias against metal-enriched absorbers. I review recent surveys to quantify the particular issue of dust obscuration bias and demonstrate that there is currently no compelling observational evidence to support a widespread effect due to extinction. On the other hand, a small sub-set of DLAs may be metal-rich and I review some recent observations of these metal-rich absorbers and the detection of diffuse interstellar bands in one DLA at z ~ 0.5.

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