your ID: 0196 
First Name: Leah 
Last Name: Simon 
Affiliation: University of Florida 
Title: Physical Properties of Absorbers in High Redshift Quasars 
Authors: Leah Simon, Fred Hamann, Max Pettini 
Topic: 4 
Session: poster 
Abstract: Emission line studies suggest that quasar environments are 
typically metal rich, requiring substantial star formation before the 
observed quasar epochs.  We use echelle spectra from VLT-UVES for 
high-redshift quasars (z= 1.9 to 4.6), selected to contain candidate 
intrinsic absorbers to test these results and derive basic absorber 
properties, such as column densities, space densities, and locations 
relative to the quasars.