Extremely metal-poor stars from the SDSS

Bibcode
2008PhST..133a4037L
DOI
10.1088/0031-8949/2008/T133/014037
Ludwig, H.-G.; Bonifacio, P.; Caffau, E.; Behara, N. T.; González Hernández, J. I.; Sbordone, L.
Bibliographical reference

Physica Scripta, Volume 133, Issue , pp. 014037 (2008).

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2008
Number of authors
6
IAC number of authors
0
Citations
21
Refereed citations
18
Description
We give a progress report on the activities within the CIFIST Team related to the search for extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's (SDSS) spectroscopic catalogue. So far, the search has provided 25 candidates with metallicities around or smaller than -3. For 15 candidates, high-resolution spectroscopy with UVES at the VLT has confirmed their EMP status. Work is under way to extend the search to the SDSS's photometric catalogue by augmenting the SDSS photometry and by gauging the capabilities of X-shooter when going to significantly fainter targets.
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Refereed

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