10 papers
Neighbors, Not Kin: Kinematic evidence for tidal tails from NGC 7492 along the Sagittarius stream
Camila Navarrete, Ãlvaro Rojas-Arriagada, Andrés E. Piatti +8
The formation, extension, and morphology of extra-tidal stars around globular clusters depend on the internal kinematics of the host cluster and the Galactic potential. Tracing the…
HRMOS: A High-Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph for the VLT
Laura Magrini, Thomas Bensby, Sofia Randich +174
This White Paper presents the scientific rationale and instrument concept for HRMOS (High-Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph), a next-generation instrument proposed for the ESO V…
Abundances of CNO in candidate young metal-poor stars
Piercarlo Bonifacio, Elisabetta Caffau, Luca Sbordone +6
In this contribution we investigate the CNO abundances in five apparently young evolved stars, with the aim of discriminating between truly young stars and stars that were rejuvena…
TOPoS VII. Age-metallicity relation in the Galactic halo and assembly of the Milky Way
P. Bonifacio, Y. Lebreton, I. Koutsouridou +8
One technique for determining stellar ages is to compare the position of a star in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram to theoretical stellar evolutionary tracks. The sub-giant evoluti…
TYC 170-1218-1: A new r-process-enhanced extremely metal-poor star, rich in Th
E. Caffau, P. Bonifacio, L. Sbordone +5
Context . Extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars are formed from gas clouds enriched by one or a few supernova explosions belonging to the first stellar generation and this very limited…
Spectroscopic metallicities and first α-element abundances of RR Lyrae stars in Baade's Window
J. Olivares Carvajal, Ã. Rojas-Arriagada, M. Zoccali +10
RR Lyrae stars in the bulge have been reported to be associated with the spheroidal, relatively metal-poor component. They offer a way to trace this component with precise distance…