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

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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.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★ 19 cited

Detailed study of the Milky Way globular cluster Laevens 3

Nicolas Longeard, Nicolas Martin, Rodrigo A. Ibata +4

We present a photometric and spectroscopic study of the Milky Way satellite Laevens 3. Using MegaCam/CFHT g and i photometry and Keck II/DEIMOS multi-object spectroscopy, we refine…

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★ 45 cited

The Pristine Dwarf-Galaxy survey - II. In-depth observational study of the faint Milky Way satellite Sagittarius II

Nicolas Longeard, Nicolas Martin, Else Starkenburg +11

We present an extensive study of the Sagittarius II (Sgr II) stellar system using MegaCam g and i photometry, narrow-band, metallicity-sensitive Calcium H&K doublet photometry, aug…