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

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23 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Comparing phylogenetic trees of stars with spectral graph distances

Theosamuele Signor, Matias Neto, Paula Jofré +9

Phylogenetic trees offer a hierarchical representation of chemical similarities among stars, from which their evolutionary histories can, in principle, be reconstructed. Simulation…

astro-ph.SR2026

Gaia FGK Benchmark Stars: Impact of Spectral Resolution on Stellar Abundances

Ivanna Hernández-Araya, Claudia Aguilera-Gómez, Paula Jofré +5

In the era of large Milky Way spectroscopic surveys, calibrating and standardizing stellar parameters and abundance measurements is crucial. The Gaia benchmark stars (GBS) are key…

astro-ph.GA2026

The primordial nature of the C-19 stellar stream

Kim A. Venn, Zhen Yuan, Nicolas F. Martin +32

Stellar streams, remnants of compact star systems stretched out by the tidal forces of the Milky Way, offer a unique way to study stellar populations that formed billions of years…

astro-ph.GA2026

The metal-poor tail of the APOGEE survey II. Spectral analysis of Mg and Si in very metal-poor APOGEE spectra

M. Montelius, A. Angrilli Muglia, E. Starkenburg +9

H-band spectra contain very limited spectral information for stars at the most metal-poor tail ( Fe/H < -2.5) because the available Fe lines in FGK stars in this wavelength range a…

astro-ph.SR2025

Towards model-free stellar chemical abundances. Potential applications in the search for chemically peculiar stars in large spectroscopic surveys

Theosamuele Signor, Paula Jofré, Hernan Lira +3

Chemical abundance determinations from stellar spectra are challenged by observational noise, limitations in stellar models, and departures from simplifying assumptions. While trad…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

The Pristine survey: XXVII. The extremely metal-poor stream C-19 stretches over more than 100 degrees

Zhen Yuan, Tadafumi Matsuno, Tatyana Sitnova +14

The discovery of the most metal-poor stream, C-19, provides us with a fossil record of a stellar structure born very soon after the Big Bang. In this work, we search for new C-19 m…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) XI: Revealing the chemical evolution of the interacting Sagittarius dwarf galaxy

Sara Vitali, Alvaro Rojas-Arriagada, Paula Jofré +9

The Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph) is a satellite orbiting the Milky Way that has experienced multiple stripping events due to tidal interactions with our Galaxy. I…

astro-ph.GA2024

Icarus revisited: An Ancient, Metal-poor Accreted Stellar Stream in the Disk of the Milky Way

Paola Re Fiorentin, Alessandro Spagna, Mario G. Lattanzi +2

The search for accreted satellites in the Galactic disk is a challenging task, to which Gaia plays a crucial role in synergy with ground-based spectroscopic surveys. In 2021, Re Fi…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 2 cited

Full abundance study of two newly discovered barium giants

Sara Vitali, Ana Escorza, Ditte Slumstrup +1

Barium (Ba) stars are chemically peculiar stars that show enhanced surface abundances of heavy elements produced by the slow-neutron-capture process, the so-called s-process. These…

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★ 5 cited

The Pristine Survey -- XXVII. Journey to the Galactic outskirts -- Mapping the outer halo red giant stars down to the very metal-poor end

Akshara Viswanathan, Amanda Byström, Else Starkenburg +14

Context: In the context of Galactic archaeology, the outer halo remains relatively unexplored with respect to its metallicity distribution, merger debris, and the abundance of know…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Pristine survey XXIV: The Galactic underdogs -- Dynamic tales of a Milky Way metal-poor population

Isaure González Rivera de La Vernhe, Vanessa Hill, Georges Kordopatis +12

Through the chemodynamical characterisation of metal-poor stars, one can efficiently probe the early history of the Milky Way. We aim at decontaminating a sample of 3M giant…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 11 cited

The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) IX. The largest detailed chemical analysis of very metal-poor stars in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy

Federico Sestito, Sara Vitali, Paula Jofre +16

The most metal-poor stars provide valuable insights into the early chemical enrichment history of a system, carrying the chemical imprints of the first generations of supernovae. T…

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.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.GA2023★ 1 cited

The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) VIII: Characterising the orbital properties of the ancient, very metal-poor inner Milky Way

Anke Ardern-Arentsen, Giacomo Monari, Anna B. A. Queiroz +19

The oldest stars in the Milky Way (born in the first few billion years) are expected to have a high density in the inner few kpc, spatially overlapping with the Galactic bulge. We…

astro-ph.SR2023

Gaia FGK Benchmark Stars: fundamental Teff and log g of the third version

Caroline Soubiran, Orlagh Creevey, Nadege Lagarde +8

Context. Large spectroscopic surveys devoted to the study of the Milky Way, including Gaia, use automated pipelines to massively determine the atmospheric parameters of millions of…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

GHOST Commissioning Science Results II: a very metal-poor star witnessing the early Galactic assembly

Federico Sestito, Christian R. Hayes, Kim A. Venn +25

This study focuses on Pristine (hereafter P180956, ), a star selected from the Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS), and followed-up…

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.GA2022★ 32 cited

The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) V: a chemo-dynamical investigation of the early assembly of the Milky Way with the most metal-poor stars in the bulge

Federico Sestito, Kim A. Venn, Anke Arentsen +13

The investigation of the metal-poor tail in the Galactic bulge provides unique information on the early Milky Way assembly and evolution. A chemo-dynamical analysis of 17 very meta…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) IV: A photometric metallicity analysis of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy

Sara Vitali, Anke Arentsen, Else Starkenburg +15

We present a comprehensive metallicity analysis of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph) using photometry. We base our member selection on EDR3…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 22 cited

The Pristine survey -- XVII. The C-19 stream is dynamically hot and more extended than previously thought

Zhen Yuan, Nicolas F. Martin, Rodrigo A. Ibata +22

The C-19 stream is the most metal poor stellar system ever discovered, with a mean metallicity . Its low metallicity dispersion ( 0.18 at…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 43 cited

The Pristine survey -- XVI. The metallicity of 26 stellar streams around the Milky Way detected with the STREAMFINDER in Gaia EDR3

Nicolas F. Martin, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Else Starkenburg +21

We use the photometric metallicities provided by the panoramic Pristine survey to study the veracity and derive the metallicities of the numerous stellar streams found by the appli…