Pristine IX: CFHT ESPaDOnS Spectroscopic Analysis of 115 Bright Metal-Poor Candidate Stars

Kim Venn, Collin Kielty, Federico Sestito, Else Starkenburg, Nicolas Martin, David S. Aguado, Anke Arentsen, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Elisabetta Caffau, Vanessa Hill, Pascale Jablonka, Carmela Lardo, Lyudmilla Mashonkina, Julio F. Navarro, Chris Sneden, Guillaume Thomas, Kris Youakim, Jonay I. Gonzalez-Hernandez, Ruben Sanchez Janssen, Ray CarlbergKhyati Malhan

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Abstract

A chemo-dynamical analysis of 115 metal-poor candidate stars selected from the narrow-band Pristine photometric survey is presented based on CFHT high-resolution ESPaDoNS spectroscopy. We have discover 28 new bright (V < 15) stars with [Fe/H]0, and a metal-poor star with very low [Mg/Fe]. The kinematics and orbits for all of the highly probable metal-poor candidates are determined by combining our precision radial velocities with Gaia DR2 proper motions. Some stars show unusual kinematics for their chemistries, including planar orbits, unbound orbits, and highly elliptical orbits that plunge deeply into the Galactic bulge (Rperi < 0.5 kpc); also, eight stars have orbital energies and actions consistent with the Gaia-Enceladus accretion event. This paper contributes to our understanding of the complex chemo-dynamics of the metal-poor Galaxy, and increases the number of known bright metal-poor stars available for detailed nucleosynthetic studies.
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JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Publication statusPublished - 14 Oct 2019

Keywords

  • astro-ph.SR
  • astro-ph.GA

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