Chemical abundances of field halo stars -- Implications for the building blocks of the Milky Way
arXiv:1908.09623 · doi:10.1017/S1743921319007865
Abstract
I would like to review recent efforts of detailed chemical abundance measurements for field Milky Way halo stars. Thanks to the advent of wide-field spectroscopic surveys up to a several kpc from the Sun, large samples of field halo stars with detailed chemical measurements are continuously expanding. Combination of the chemical information and full six dimensional phase-space information is now recognized as a powerful tool to identify cosmological accretion events that have built a sizable fraction of the present-day stellar halo. Future observational prospects with wide-field spectroscopic surveys and theoretical prospects with supernova nucleosynthetic yields are also discussed.
10 pages, To appear in the Proceedings of the 351 IAU Symposium "Star Clusters: From the Milky Way to the Early Universe"
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