Table 3: Total column densities and abundances in the $z_{{\rm abs}}$ = 4.383 DLA towards QSO 1202-0725.
Ion $\lambda_{{\rm rest}}$ log N (X) [X/H]a
H I 1215 20.55 $\pm$ 0.03  
C II 1334 15.13 $\pm$ 0.05 -2.01 $\pm$ 0.06
C IV 1548 12.86 $\pm$ 0.04  
  1550    
N I 1200.2 13.81 $\pm$ 0.05 -2.67 $\pm$ 0.06
  1200.7    
O I 1302 15.75 $\pm$ 0.06 -1.54 $\pm$ 0.07
  1039    
  971    
Si II 1304 14.39 $\pm$ 0.05 -1.70 $\pm$ 0.06
  1526    
Si IV 1393 12.71 $\pm$ 0.02  
  1402    
Fe III 1122 12.83 $\pm$ 0.09  
Ni II 1317 <12.5 <-2.3
  1370    
a [X/H] = log (X/H) - log (X/H) $_{\hbox{$\odot$ }}$. For N and O updated photospheric solar values given by Holweger (2001) were used, for the rest of the elements we used the meteorite values given by (Grevesse & Sauval 1998).

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