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Context: Extremely metal-poor stars (EMP) are very rare objects that hold in their atmospheres the fossil record of the chemical composition of the early phases of Galactic evolution. Finding these objects and determining their chemical…

The extremely metal-poor stars are the direct descendants of the first generation stars. They carry the chemical signature of the pristine Universe at the time they formed, shortly after the Big Bang. We aim to derive information about…

Aims: The purpose of our study is to determine the chemical composition of a sample of 16 candidate Extremely Metal-Poor (EMP) dwarf stars, extracted from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). There are two main purposes: in the first place…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 P. Bonifacio , L. Sbordone , E. Caffau , H. -G. Ludwig , M. Spite , J. I. González Hernández , N. T. Behara

The most metal-poor stars are the relics of the early chemical evolution of the Galaxy. Their chemical composition is an important tool to constrain the nucleosynthesis in the first generation of stars. The aim is to observe a sample of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-07 P. François , E. Caffau , S. Wanajo , D. Aguado , M. Spite , M. Aoki , P. Bonifacio , A. J. Gallagher , S. Salvadori , F. Spite

The metal-weak tail of the metallicity distribution function (MDF) of the Galactic Halo stars contains crucial information on the formation mode of the first generation of stars. To determine this observationally, it is necessary to observe…

Extremely metal-poor stars are intrinsically rare, but emerging methods exist to accurately classify them from all-sky Gaia XP low-resolution spectra. To assess their overall accuracy for targeting metal-poor stars, we present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 Riley Thai , Andrew R. Casey , Alexander Ji , Vedant Chandra , Hans-Walter Rix

Unevolved metal poor stars are the witness of the early evolution of the Galaxy. The determination of their detailed chemical composition is an important tool to understand the chemical history of our Galaxy. The study of their chemical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 P. François , S. Wanajo , E. Caffau , N. Prantzos , W. Aoki , M. Aoki , P. Bonifacio , M. Spite , F. Spite

We give a progress report about the activities within the CIFIST Team related to the search for extremely metal-poor stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's spectroscopic catalog. So far the search has provided 25 candidates with…

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

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

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…

We present results of a search for extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which can provide crucial information about the properties of the first stars as well as on the formation conditions prevalent during the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 W. S. Oh , T. Nordlander , G. S. Da Costa , M. S. Bessell , A. D. Mackey

We present new metallicity measurements for 298 individual red giant branch stars in eight of the least luminous dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) in the Milky Way (MW) system. Our technique is based on medium resolution Keck/DEIMOS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-28 Evan N. Kirby , Joshua D. Simon , Marla Geha , Puragra Guhathakurta , Anna Frebel

Chemical compositions are determined based on high-resolution spectroscopy for 137 candidate extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and its first stellar extension, the Sloan Extension for…

Extremely metal-poor (XMP) galaxies are defined to have gas-phase metallicity smaller than a tenth of the solar value (12 + log[O/H] < 7.69). They are uncommon, chemically and possibly dynamically primitive, with physical conditions…

We report on the result of an ongoing campaign to determine chemical abundances in extremely metal poor (EMP) turn-off (TO) stars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) low resolution spectra. This contribution focuses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-19 Luca Sbordone , Piercarlo Bonifacio , Elisabetta Caffau , Hans-Gunther Ludwig

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 ([Fe/H] < -3.0 dex) provide a unique window into understanding the first generation of stars and early chemical enrichment of the Universe. EMP stars are exceptionally rare, however, and the relatively small…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 A. A. Miller

The most metal-poor stars in the Milky Way witnessed the early phases of formation of the Galaxy, and have chemical compositions that are close to the pristine mixture from Big Bang nucleosynthesis, polluted by one or few supernovae. Only…

We present a detailed chemical analysis study of 16 candidate metal-poor stars, previously identified with 2dF + AAOmega, using X-Shooter spectra and the Korg 1D local thermodynamic equilibrium spectral synthesis code. We confirm the…

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