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Early metal enrichment in high-redshift quasars

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-05-13 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

Quasars are powerful systems whose spectrum is rich of metal features that allow us to investigate the chemical evolution of galaxies at very high redshift, even close to the reionization epoch. I review the main observational constraints on the metallicity of quasars host galaxies at high redshift and discuss the implications and issues for models of galaxy evolution in the early universe.

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@article{arxiv.0902.4761,
  title  = {Early metal enrichment in high-redshift quasars},
  author = {R. Maiolino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.4761},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, invited review at the workshop "Probing Stellar Populations out to the Distant Universe"

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