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most citedFirst Stars II. Elemental abundances in the extremely metal-poor star CS 22949--037: A diagnostic of early massive supernovae

175 citations · 500 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.SR2026

MINCE IV. A detailed analysis of 37 metal-poor and subsolar metallicity stars

L. Sgatti, G. Cescutti, L. Lombardo +13

The project called Measuring at Intermediate metallicity Neutron-Capture Elements (MINCE) primarily focuses on the photospheric abundances of several neutron-capture (NC) elements…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

Gaia DR3 high radial velocity stars: Genuine fast-moving objects or outliers?

D. Katz, A. Gómez, E. Caffau +39

The third Gaia data release includes 33.8 million radial velocity measurements, extending to a magnitude of G_RVS = 14. To reach this magnitude limit, spectra were processed down t…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 7 cited

Unlocking the mystery of Sr synthesis in the early Galaxy through analysis of barium isotopes in very metal-poor stars

T. M. Sitnova, L. Lombardo, L. I. Mashonkina +8

We determine the contributions of the rapid (r) and slow (s) neutron capture processes to the Ba isotope mixture, along with Ba, Eu, and Sr NLTE abundances, in a sample of very met…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

MINCE III. Detailed chemical analysis of the UVES sample

F. Lucertini, L. Sbordone, E. Caffau +14

Context. The MINCE (Measuring at Intermediate Metallicity Neutron-Capture Elements) project aims to provide high quality neutron-capture abundances measurements in several hundred…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

The Pristine survey. XXVI. Chemical abundances of subgiant stars of the extremelymetal-poor stream C-19

P. Bonifacio, E. Caffau, P. François +17

Context: The C-19 stellar stream is the most metal-poor stream known to date. While its width and velocity dispersion indicate a dwarf galaxy origin, its metallicity spread and abu…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 10 cited

Chemical Evolution of R-process Elements in Stars (CERES). III. Chemical abundances of neutron capture elements from Ba to Eu

L. Lombardo, C. J. Hansen, F. Rizzuti +11

The chemical abundances of elements such as barium and the lanthanides are essential to understand the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements in the early Universe as well as the contri…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 2 cited

Neutron-capture elements in a sample of field metal-poor N-rich dwarfs

M Spite, P Bonifacio, E Caffau +1

The aim of this work is to measure the abundances of n-capture elements in a sample of six metal-poor N-rich dwarfs that were formed in globular clusters, and subsequently became u…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

MINCE II. Neutron capture elements

P. François, G. Cescutti, P. Bonifacio +24

The MINCE (Measuring at Intermediate metallicity Neutron-Capture Elements) project aims to gather the abundances of neutron-capture elements but also of light elements and iron pea…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 5 cited

High speed stars: III. Detailed abundances and binary nature of the extreme speed star GHS143

E. Caffau, P. Bonifacio L. Monaco, L. Sbordone +7

The Gaia satellite has provided the community with three releases containing astrometrical and photometric data as well as by products, such as stellar parameters and variability i…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

The Gaia RVS benchmark stars II. A sample of stars selected for their Gaia high radial velocity

E. Caffau, D. Katz, A. Gómez +16

The Gaia satellite has already provided the astronomical community with three data releases, and the Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) on board Gaia has provided the radial veloci…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 14 cited

High-speed stars. II. An unbound star, young stars, bulge metal-poor stars, and Aurora candidates

P. Bonifacio, E. Caffau, L. Monaco +6

The data from the Gaia satellite led us to revise our conception of the Galaxy structure and history. Hitherto unknown components have been discovered and a deep re-thinking of wha…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 20 cited

On the 12C/13C isotopic ratio at the dawn of chemical evolution

P. Molaro, D. S. Aguado, E. Caffau +21

The known Mega and Hyper Metal-Poor (MMP-HMP) stars with [Fe/H]<-6.0 and <-5.0, respectively, likely belong to the CEMP-no class, i.e. carbon-enhanced stars with low or absent seco…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 27 cited

Chemical Evolution of R-process Elements in Stars (CERES). I. Stellar parameters and chemical abundances from Na to Zr

Linda Lombardo, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Patrick François +10

Aims. The Chemical Evolution of R-process Elements in Stars (CERES) project aims to provide a homogeneous analysis of a sample of metal-poor stars ([Fe/H]<-1.5). We present the ste…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 20 cited

Young giants of intermediate mass Evidence of rotation and mixing

Linda Lombardo, Patrick François, Piercarlo Bonifacio +7

In the search of a sample of metal-poor bright giants using Str{ö}mgren photometry, we serendipitously found a sample of 26 young (ages younger than 1 Gyr) metal-rich giants, some…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 62 cited

Abundance ratios of red giants in low mass ultra faint dwarf spheroidal galaxies

P. François, L. Monaco, P. Bonifacio +3

Low mass dwarf spheroidal galaxies are key objects for our understanding of the chemical evolution of the pristine Universe and the Local Group of galaxies. Abundance ratios in sta…

astro-ph2007★ 145 cited

NLTE determination of the sodium abundance in a homogeneous sample of extremely metal-poor stars

S. M. Andrievsky, M. Spite, S. A. Korotin +5

Abundance ratios in extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars are a good indication of the chemical composition of the gas in the earliest phases of the Galaxy evolution. It had been found…

astro-ph2002★ 175 cited

First Stars II. Elemental abundances in the extremely metal-poor star CS 22949--037: A diagnostic of early massive supernovae

E. Depagne, V. Hill, M. Spite +10

CS 22949--037 is one of the most metal-poor giants known ([Fe/H]), and it exhibits large overabundances of carbon and nitrogen (Norris et al.). Using VLT-UVES spectra…