Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-07-17
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Proceedings of IAU Symp. 255
Scientific paper
10.1017/S1743921308024691
I report on observations of the z=0.01 dwarf galaxy SBS1543+593 which is projected onto the background QSO HS1543+5921. As a star-forming galaxy first noted in emission, this dwarf is playing a pivotal role in our understanding of high-redshift galaxy populations, because it also gives rise to a Damped Lyman Alpha system. This enabled us to analyze, for the first time, the chemical abundance of $\alpha$ elements in a Damped Lyman Alpha galaxy using both, emission and absorption diagnostics. We find that the abundances agree with one another within the observational uncertainties. I discuss the implications of this result for the interpretation of high-redshift galaxy observations. A catalog of dwarf-galaxy--QSO projections culled from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is provided to stimulate future work.
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