The Most Metal-Rich Intervening Quasar Absorber Known

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2006-01-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601079v1

Astron.Astrophys.450:53-57,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20054642

The metallicity in portions of high-redshift galaxies has been successfully measured thanks to the gas observed in absorption in the spectra of quasars, in the Damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs). Surprisingly, the global mean metallicity derived from DLAs is about 1/10th solar at 0

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