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We have undertaken a spectroscopic survey of field stars to find metal-poor objects among them. Observations are carried out using OMR spectrograph attached to 2.3m telescope at VBO Kavalur, India. The sample of candidate stars are chosen…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sunetra Giridhar , Aruna Goswami

We present elemental abundances for eight unevolved extremely metal-poor stars with $T_{\rm eff}>5500\,\mathrm{K}$, among which seven have $[\mathrm{Fe/H}]<-3.5$. The sample is selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey / Sloan Extension…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Tadafumi Matsuno , Wako Aoki , Timothy C. Beers , Young Sun Lee , Satoshi Honda

The estimation of stellar atmospheric parameters for large-scale samples, particularly metal-poor stars, is a cornerstone of Galactic archaeology. In this work, we optimized a photometric filter design tailored to measuring stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 Ruifeng Shi , Yang Huang , Kai Xiao , Chuanjie Zheng , Bowen Zhang , Hongrui Gu , Xinyi Li , Huiling Chen

We present the results of spectroscopic follow-up for 1897 low-metallicity star candidates, selected from the Best & Brightest (B&B) Survey, carried out with the GMOS-N/S (Gemini North/South telescopes) and Goodman (SOAR Telescope)…

We present chemical abundances for 110 stars identified in objective-prism surveys as candidates to be very metal-poor. The abundances are derived from high S/N, intermediate-resolution spectra obtained with the Keck Observatory Echelle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. K. Lai , M. Bolte , J. A. Johnson , S. Lucatello

We present the results of an analysis for 107 extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars with metallicities less than [Fe/H] = -3.0, identified from medium-resolution spectra in SDSS. We follow a methodology based on comparisons of the observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 E. Fernandez-Alvar , C. Allende Prieto , T. C. Beers , Y. S. Lee , T. Masseron , D. P. Schneider

Nearby extremely metal-poor galaxies (XMPs) allow us to study primitive galaxy formation and evolution in greater detail than is possible at high redshift. This work, for the first time, promotes the use of convolutional neural networks…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-04 Ting-Yun Cheng , Ryan J. Cooke

We report a method of identifying candidate low-metallicity blue compact dwarf galaxies (BCDs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data and present 3-m Lick Observatory and 10-m W.M. Keck Observatory optical spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-13 Tiffany Hsyu , Ryan J. Cooke , J. Xavier Prochaska , Michael Bolte

We present an update on the status of the 0Z Survey, an effort to datamine the Hamburg/ESO Survey to find and study in detail a large sample of extremely metal-poor Galactic halo field stars with [Fe/H] < -3 dex. After searching 1,565…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-06 Judith G. Cohen , Norbert Christlieb , Andrew McWilliam , Stephen Shectman , Ian Thompson

A new set of very high signal-to-noise (S/N > 100/1), medium-resolution (R~3000) optical spectra have been obtained for 302 of the candidate "weak-metal" stars selected by Bidelman & MacConnell. We use these data to calibrate the recently…

We explored the regions within a radius of 25 arcsec around 473 nearby, low-metallicity G- to M-type stars using (VR)I optical filters and small-aperture telescopes. About 10% of the sample was searched up to angular separations of 90…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. R. Zapatero Osorio , E. L. Martin

Extremely metal-poor star-forming galaxies (XMPs) represent one of our only laboratories for study of the low-metallicity stars we expect to encounter at early epochs. But as our understanding of the $z>6$ universe has improved, it has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 Peter Senchyna , Daniel P. Stark

The advent of m class telescopes has allowed the detailed spectroscopic study of sizeable numbers of extremely metal-poor Galactic stars which are the witnesses of the formation of the early Galaxy. Their chemical composition displays some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Piercarlo Bonifacio

The chemical abundances of very metal-poor stars provide important constraints on the nucleosynthesis of the first generation of stars and early chemical evolution of the Galaxy. We have obtained high-resolution spectra with the Subaru…

We present the results of a search for extremely metal-poor (EMP), carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP), and cataclysmic variable (CV) stars using a new exploration tool based on linked scatter plots (LSPs). Our approach is especially designed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-04 Duane F. Carbon , Christopher Henze , Bron C. Nelson

Context. The first generation of stars formed in the Galaxy left behind the chemical signatures of their nucleosynthesis in the interstellar medium, visible today in the atmospheres of low-mass stars formed afterwards. Sampling the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 D. S. Aguado , C. Allende Prieto , J. I. González Hernández , R. Rebolo , E. Caffau

We have obtained high-resolution (R $\simeq$ 50,000 or 90,000), high-quality (S/N $\ga$ 100) spectra of 22 very metal-poor stars ([Fe/H] $\la$ -2.5) with the High Dispersion Spectrograph fabricated for the 8.2m Subaru Telescope. The spectra…

Metal-poor stars are a rare and ancient type of stars; Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP) stars are a subset of these celestial bodies that show an enrichment of carbon relative to iron. They are believed to be formed from gas polluted by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-09 Ziyu Fang , Xiangru Li , Haining Li

The chemical abundances of large samples of extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars can be used to investigate metal-free stellar populations, supernovae, and nucleosynthesis as well as the formation and galactic chemical evolution of the Milky…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Kevin C. Schlaufman , Andrew R. Casey

Extremely Metal-Poor (EMP) stars provide a valuable probe of early chemical enrichment in the Milky Way. Here we leverage a large sample of $\sim600,000$ high-resolution stellar spectra from the GALAH survey plus a machine learning…