Comparing Chemical Abundances of the Damped Lya Systems and Metal-Poor Stars

Abstract

I briefly draw comparisons between the fields of damped Lya and metal-poor stellar abundances. In particular, I examine their complementary age-metallicity relations and comparisons between the damped Lya and dwarf galaxy abundance patterns. Regarding the latter, I describe a series of problems concerning associating high z damped Lya systems with present-day dwarfs.

7 pages, 2 figures. To be published in the Proceedings of Joint Discussion 15 of the 2003 IAU, eds. P. Nissen and M. Pettini