Early metal enrichment in high-redshift quasars
arXiv:0902.4761 · doi:10.1063/1.3141537
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.
8 pages, invited review at the workshop "Probing Stellar Populations out to the Distant Universe"