Emission-line spectroscopy of Damped Lyman Alpha Systems: The case of SBS 1543+593/HS 1543+5921

Details Emission-line spectroscopy of Damped Lyman Alpha Systems: The case of SBS 1543+593/HS 1543+5921 Emission-line spectroscopy of Damped Lyman Alpha Systems: The case of SBS 1543+593/HS 1543+5921

2005-04-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504556v1

Astrophys.J. 625 (2005) L79-L82

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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accepted for publication in ApJL

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10.1086/431324

We report HST/STIS spectroscopy and Gemini/GMOS-N imaging of the Damped Lyman Alpha (DLA) system toward HS 1543+5921 caused by the host star-forming galaxy (SFG) SBS 1543+593. The Gemini image shows new morphological details of this well resolved DLA galaxy. In combination with previous optical spectra, the new UV spectra enable us to compare for the first time, ionized and neutral gas-phase alpha-element abundances derived from emission- and absorption-line spectroscopy, in a bona fide DLA galaxy. The abundances we determine using emission-line diagnostics agree with those from absorption-line diagnostics. We present our results on a metallicity versus redshift diagram that combines local HII regions and SFGs with high-redshift DLAs, and discuss implications for the chemical evolution of galaxies.

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