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

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astro-ph.GA2025★ 10 cited

Evidence of Gaia Enceladus experiencing at least two passages around the Milky Way

Ása Skúladóttir, Heitor Ernandes, Diane K. Feuillet +4

One of the major recent breakthroughs has been the discovery of the last Major Merger to happen in the history of the Milky Way. Around 10 Gyr ago the galaxy Gaia Enceladus, with e…

astro-ph.GA2024

An ancient system hidden in the Galactic plane?

Federico Sestito, Emma Fernandez-Alvar, Rebecca Brooks +19

We analyse high signal-to-noise ESPaDOnS/CFHT spectra of 20 very metal-poor stars (VMP; [Fe/H]~) in the solar neighbourhood (within kpc), selected to be on planar or…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) X. Probing the early chemical evolution of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy with carbon abundances

Federico Sestito, Anke Ardern-Arentsen, Sara Vitali +6

We aim to constrain the chemo-dynamical properties of the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf galaxy using carbon abundances. Our sample from the \textit{Pristine} Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) i…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 20 cited

Extremely metal-poor stars in the Fornax and Carina dwarf spheroidal galaxies

R. Lucchesi, P. Jablonka, Á. Skúladóttir +6

We present our analysis of VLT/UVES and X-shooter observations of six very metal-poor stars, including four stars at [Fe/H] in the Fornax and Carina dwarf spheroidal (…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 30 cited

Tracing Pop III supernovae with extreme energies through the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy

Ása Skúladóttir, Irene Vanni, Stefania Salvadori +1

The Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy is old and metal-poor, making it ideal to study the earliest chemical enrichment in the Local Group. We followed up the most metal-poor star kn…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 22 cited

The Pristine survey -- XV. A CFHT ESPaDOnS view on the Milky Way halo and disc populations

R. Lucchesi, C. Lardo, P. Jablonka +14

We present a one-dimensional, local thermodynamic equilibrium (1D-LTE) homogeneous analysis of 132 stars observed at high-resolution with ESPaDOnS. This represents the largest samp…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 37 cited

The Pristine Dwarf-Galaxy survey -- IV. Probing the outskirts of the dwarf galaxy Boötes I

Nicolas Longeard, Pascale Jablonka, Anke Arentsen +12

We present a new spectroscopic study of the dwarf galaxy Bootes I (Boo I) with data from the Anglo-Australian Telescope and its AAOmega spectrograph together with the Two Degree Fi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 34 cited

The Pristine Dwarf-Galaxy survey -- III. Revealing the nature of the Milky Way globular cluster Sagittarius II

Nicolas Longeard, Nicolas Martin, Rodrigo Ibata +13

We present a new spectroscopic study of the faint Milky Way satellite Sagittarius II. Using multi-object spectroscopy from the Fibre Large Array Multi Element Spectrograph, we supp…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 17 cited

Homogeneity in the early chemical evolution of the Sextans dwarf Spheroidal galaxy

R. Lucchesi, C. Lardo, F. Primas +10

We present the high-resolution spectroscopic analysis of two new extremely metal-poor stars (EMPS) candidates in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Sextans. These targets were pre-selecte…

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★ 32 cited

The chemical evolution of the dwarf Spheroidal galaxy Sextans

R. Theler, P. Jablonka, R. Lucchesi +11

We present the analysis of the FLAMES dataset targeting the central 25 arcmin region of the Sextans dSph. This dataset is the third major part of the high resolution spectroscopic…

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…