The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Chemical Abundances of Stars in the Halo (CASH) Project. First Year Results

Bibcode
2007AAS...21113104F
Frebel, Anna; Allende Prieto, C.; Davies, L. A.; Roederer, I.; Shetrone, M.; Sneden, C.; Rhee, J.; Beers, T. C.; Cowan, J. J.
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #131.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.959

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2007
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9
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0
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0
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Description
We introduce the The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Chemical Abundances of Stars in the Halo (CASH) Project. This University of Texas Long Term Project aims at discovering metal-poor Galactic halo stars selected from various surveys. We present the results of the first year of HET observations: Thus far, 200 objects are observed with the high-resolution spectrograph. Data reduction and stellar parameter determination, as well as our automated analysis procedure are described. A handful of stars with [Fe/H]<-3.0 were found. We also report an individual abundance analysis of three metal-poor program stars that confirm our automated analysis techniques.
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Non-refereed

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