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Chemical Abundances in Star-Forming Galaxies at High Redshift

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2010

Dawn K. Erb
Dawn K. Erb*
Affiliation:
Deparment of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530, USA email: dawn@physics.ucsb.edu
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A galaxy's metallicity provides a record of star formation, gas accretion, and gas outflow, and is therefore one of the most informative measurements that can be made at high redshift. It is also one of the most difficult. I review methods of determining chemical abundances in distant star-forming galaxies, and summarize results for galaxies at 1 ≲ z ≲ 3. I then focus on the mass-metallicity relation, its evolution with redshift, and its uses in constraining inflows and outflows of gas, and conclude with a brief discussion of future prospects for metallicity measurements at high redshift.

Keywords

High redshift galaxieschemical abundances
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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S265: Chemical Abundances in the Universe: Connecting First Stars to Planets , August 2009 , pp. 147 - 154
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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