A comprehensive set of elemental abundances in damped Ly-alpha systems: revealing the nature of these high-redshift galaxies

M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, F. Calura, J. X. Prochaska +2

By combining our UVES-VLT spectra of a sample of four damped Ly-alpha systems (DLAs) toward the quasars Q0100+13, Q1331+17, Q2231-00 and Q2343+12 with the existing HIRES-Keck spect…