05/07/03
Petitjean Patrick Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
98bis Boulevard Arago Sure
75014 Paris, France
Presentation 1 : Oral/Invited
Current views about the dust distribution in the intergalactic space
Patrick Petitjean
I will review our current understanding of the presence of dust in diffuse gas (of low and high density) at high redshift. In particular I will summarize a recent VLT survey for dust and molecular hydrogen in Damped Lyman-alpha systems.