Table 7: Comparison of the C, N, O and S isotopic ratios in the z = 0.89 galaxy (SW absorption) with different other environments.
  12C / 13C 14N / 15N 16O / 18O 18O / 17O 32S / 34S

$\vec{z}$ = 0.89 galaxy
27 $\pm$ 2 130 +20-15 $^\dagger$ 52 $\pm$ 4 $^\dagger$ 12 +3-2 10 $\pm$ 1
Solar System (a) 89 270 490 5.5 22
Local ISM (b) 59 $\pm$ 2 237 +27-21 672 $\pm$ 110 3.65 $\pm$ 0.15 19 $\pm$ 8
Galactic Center (c) 25 $\pm$ 5 900 $\pm$ 200 250 $\pm$ 30 3.5 $\pm$ 0.2 18 $\pm$ 5
IRC+10216 (d) 45 $\pm$ 3 >4400 1260 +315-240 0.7 $\pm$ 0.2 21.8 $\pm$ 2.6

LMC (e)
62 $\pm$ 5 114 $\pm$ 14 >2000 1.8 $\pm$ 0.4 18 $\pm$ 6
NGC 253 (f) 40 $\pm$ 10 - 200 $\pm$ 50 6.5 $\pm$ 1 8 $\pm$ 2
NGC 4945 (g) 50 $\pm$ 10 105 $\pm$ 25 195 $\pm$ 45 6.4 $\pm$ 0.3 13.5 $\pm$ 2.5
$^\dagger$ Derived from a double ratio assuming 12C/13C = 27 $\pm$ 2.
References: a) Anders & Grevesse (1989); b) Lucas & Liszt (1998), except for 18O/17O taken from Penzias (1981); c) Wilson & Matteucci (1992), Wilson & Rood (1994) and references therein; d) Kahane et al. (1988, 1992) and Cernicharo et al. (2000); e) Chin (1999); f) Henkel & Mauersberger (1993), Harrison et al. (1999) and Martín et al. (2005); g) Wang et al. (2004).

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