Stars of very low metal abundance. I Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Beers T.C.
  2. Preston G.W.
  3. Shectman S.A.
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    CDS
Abstract

An objective-prism and a narrowband interference filter have been used in combination on the Curtis Schmidt telescope at CTIO to conduct a search for extremely metal-poor stars. The filter restricts the bandpass to the region around the H and K lines of CaII; the metal-poor candidates are those stars with weak or absent H and K. Slit spectra (1 A resolution) of some 450 candidates are used to measure equivalent widths of the CaII K line and Balmer features. A calibration of the K-line strength for giants in the metal-poor globular cluster NGC 6397 and field dwarfs and giants of known metallicity is used to identify survey candidates with metal abundance [Fe/H]<=-2.0; a list of 134 such stars is presented. UBV photometry is used to distinguish between two groups of metal-poor stars: a group with objects near the main-sequence turnoff, on the subgiant branch, and on the giant branch; and a second group with objects on the red horizontal branch (RHB) and asymptotic giant branch (AGB). The RHB-AGB stars exhibit the well-known weak G-band effect; three CH-strong objects are identified among the subgiants.

Keywords
  1. chemically-peculiar-stars
  2. halo-stars
  3. spectroscopy
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1985AJ.....90.2089B
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2005-12-16T14:03:59Z
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2005-12-16T14:03:59Z
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