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most citedThe Pristine survey I: Mining the Galaxy for the most metal-poor stars

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27 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Searching for and characterizing halo substructures with the GALAH DR4 survey

Iryna Kushniruk, Kristopher Youakim, Karin Lind +12

Recent studies show that the Milky Way stellar halo is composed of populations of different origins, shaped by multiple accretion events. To better understand the formation of the…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Identifying substructure associations in the Milky Way halo using chemo-kinematic tagging

Kris Youakim, Karin Lind

The Milky Way halo has been built-up over cosmic time through the accretion and dissolution of star clusters and dwarf galaxies as well as through their complex interactions with t…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

The Pristine survey: XXV. The very metal-poor Galaxy: Chemodynamics through the follow-up of the Pristine-Gaia synthetic catalogue

Akshara Viswanathan, Zhen Yuan, Anke Ardern-Arentsen +27

The Pristine-\textit{Gaia} synthetic catalogue provides reliable photometric metallicities for 30 million FGK stars using the Pristine survey model and Gaia XP spectra. We pe…

astro-ph.SR2024

Titanium abundances in late-type stars, II. Grid of departure coefficients and application to a sample of stars

J. W. E. Mallinson, K. Lind, A. M. Amarsi +1

Rapidly growing datasets from stellar spectroscopic surveys are providing unprecedented opportunities to analyse the chemical evolution history of our Galaxy. However, spectral ana…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 47 cited

The Pristine survey -- XXIII. Data Release 1 and an all-sky metallicity catalogue based on Gaia DR3 BP/RP spectro-photometry

Nicolas F. Martin, Else Starkenburg, Zhen Yuan +38

We used the spectro-photometric information of ~219 million stars from Gaia's DR3 to calculate synthetic, narrow-band, metallicity-sensitive CaHK magnitudes that mimic the observat…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

Tidal debris from Omega Centauri discovered with unsupervised machine learning

Kris Youakim, Karin Lind, Iryna Kushniruk

The gravitational interactions between the Milky Way and in-falling satellites offer a wealth of information about the formation and evolution of our Galaxy. In this paper, we expl…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

Beyond Gaia DR3: Tracing the [/M]-[M/H] bimodality from the inner to the outer Milky Way disc with Gaia-RVS and convolutional neural networks

G. Guiglion, S. Nepal, C. Chiappini +17

In June 2022, Gaia DR3 has provided the astronomy community with about one million spectra from the Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) covering the CaII triplet region. However, on…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 211 cited

The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation

Shoko Jin, Scott C. Trager, Gavin B. Dalton +212

WEAVE, the new wide-field, massively multiplexed spectroscopic survey facility for the William Herschel Telescope, will see first light in late 2022. WEAVE comprises a new 2-degree…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 19 cited

Titanium abundances in late-type stars I. 1D non-local thermodynamic equilibrium modelling in benchmark dwarfs and giants

J. W. E. Mallinson, K. Lind, A. M. Amarsi +4

The titanium abundances of late-type stars are important tracers of Galactic formation history. However, abundances inferred from Ti I and Ti II lines can be in stark disagreement…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 49 cited

The Photometric Metallicity and Carbon Distributions of the Milky Way's Halo and Solar Neighborhood from S-PLUS Observations of SDSS Stripe 82

Devin D. Whitten, Vinicius M. Placco, Timothy C. Beers +14

We report photometric estimates of effective temperature, , metallicity, [Fe/H], carbonicity, [C/Fe], and absolute carbon abundances, , for over 700,000 st…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 39 cited

The Pristine survey -- XII: Gemini-GRACES chemo-dynamical study of newly discovered extremely metal-poor stars in the Galaxy

Collin L. Kielty, Kim A. Venn, Federico Sestito +16

High-resolution optical spectra of 30 metal-poor stars selected from the \Pristine\ survey are presented, based on observations taken with the Gemini Observatory GRACES spectrograp…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 57 cited

The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) II: Uncovering the most metal-poor populations in the inner Milky Way

Anke Arentsen, Else Starkenburg, Nicolas F. Martin +19

Metal-poor stars are important tools for tracing the early history of the Milky Way, and for learning about the first generations of stars. Simulations suggest that the oldest meta…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 69 cited

The Pristine survey VIII: The metallicity distribution function of the Milky Way halo down to the extremely metal-poor regime

K. Youakim, E. Starkenburg, N. F. Martin +15

The Pristine survey uses narrow-band photometry to derive precise metallicities down to the extremely metal-poor regime ([Fe/H] < -3), and currently consists of over 4 million FGK-…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 92 cited

The Pristine survey X: a large population of low-metallicity stars permeates the Galactic disk

Federico Sestito, Nicolas F. Martin, Else Starkenburg +26

The orbits of the least chemically enriched stars open a window on the formation of our Galaxy when it was still in its infancy. The common picture is that these low-metallicity st…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 28 cited

The Pristine survey -- VII. A cleaner view of the Galactic outer halo using blue horizontal branch stars

Else Starkenburg, Kris Youakim, Nicolas Martin +11

We use the Pristine survey CaHK narrow-band photometry, combined with the SDSS ugr photometry, to provide a cleaner sample of blue horizontal branch stars in the Galactic halo out…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 61 cited

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

Kim Venn, Collin Kielty, Federico Sestito +18

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 spectrosc…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 84 cited

The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) I: Tracing the kinematics of metal-poor stars in the Galactic bulge

Anke Arentsen, Else Starkenburg, Nicolas F. Martin +20

Our Galaxy is known to contain a central boxy/peanut-shaped bulge, yet the importance of a classical, pressure-supported component within the central part of the Milky Way is still…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 72 cited

The Pristine Survey -- VI. The first three years of medium-resolution follow-up spectroscopy of Pristine EMP star candidates

David S. Aguado, Kris Youakim, Jonay I. González Hernández +27

We present the results of a 3-year long, medium-resolution spectroscopic campaign aimed at identifying very metal-poor stars from candidates selected with the CaHK, metallicity-sen…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 54 cited

Kinematics with Gaia DR2: The Force of a Dwarf

I. Carrillo, I. Minchev, M. Steinmetz +10

We use Gaia DR2 astrometric and line-of-sight velocity information combined with two sets of distances obtained with a Bayesian inference method to study the 3D velocity distributi…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 36 cited

The R-Process Alliance: Spectroscopic Follow-up of Low-Metallicity Star Candidates from the Best & Brightest Survey

Vinicius M. Placco, Rafael M. Santucci, Timothy C. Beers +17

We present results from an observing campaign to identify low-metallicity stars in the Best & Brightest Survey. From medium-resolution (R ~ 1, 200 - 2, 000) spectroscopy of 857 can…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 83 cited

Pristine Dwarf-Galaxy Survey I: A detailed photometric and spectroscopic study of the very metal-poor Draco II satellite

Nicolas Longeard, Nicolas Martin, Else Starkenburg +17

We present a detailed study of the faint Milky Way satellite Draco II (Dra II) from deep CFHT/MegaCam broadband and photometry and narrow-band metallicity-sensitive CaHK ob…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 77 cited

The Pristine Survey IV: Approaching the Galactic metallicity floor with the discovery of an ultra metal-poor star

Else Starkenburg, David S. Aguado, Piercarlo Bonifacio +22

The early Universe presented a star formation environment that was almost devoid of heavy elements. The lowest metallicity stars thus provide a unique window into the earliest Gala…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 61 cited

The Pristine survey III: Spectroscopic confirmation of an efficient search for extremely metal-poor stars

K. Youakim, E. Starkenburg, D. S. Aguado +13

The Pristine survey is a narrow-band, photometric survey focused around the wavelength region of the Ca II H & K absorption lines, designed to efficiently search for extremely meta…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 20 cited

The Pristine survey II: a sample of bright stars observed with FEROS

E. Caffau, P. Bonifacio, E. Starkenburg +8

Extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars are old objects formed in the first Gyr of the Universe. They are rare and, to select them, the most successful strategy has been to build on large…