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Mar 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001ycat..73200451b&link_type=abstract
VizieR On-line Data Catalog: J/MNRAS/320/451. Originally published in: 2001MNRAS.320..451B
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Stars: Population Ii, Abundances: [Fe/H]
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The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey is an ongoing project to identify and analyse a large sample of hot stars selected initially on the basis of photographic colours (down to a magnitude limit (B~18.0) over the entire high-Galactic-latitude southern sky, and then studied with broad-band UBV photometry and medium-resolution spectroscopy. Due to unavoidable errors in the initial candidate selection, stars that are likely metal-deficient dwarfs and giants of the halo and thick-disc populations are inadvertently included, yet are of interest in their own right. In this paper we discuss a total of 206 candidate metal-deficient dwarfs, subgiants, giants, and horizontal-branch stars with photoelectric colours redder than (B-V)0=0.3, and with available spectroscopy. Radial velocities, accurate to ~10-15km/s, are presented for all of these stars. Spectroscopic metallicity estimates for these stars are obtained using a recently recalibrated relation between Ca II K-line strength and (B-V)0 colour. The identification of metal-poor stars from this colour-selection technique is remarkably efficient, and competitive with previous survey methods. An additional sample of 186 EC stars with photoelectric colours in the range -0.4<=(B-V)0<0.3, photoelectric colours in the range composed primarily of field horizontal-branch stars and other, higher gravity, A- and B-type stars, is also analysed. Estimates of the physical parameters Teff, log g and [Fe/H] are obtained for cooler members of this subsample, and a number of candidate RR Lyrae variables are identified.
(5 data files).
Beers Timothy C.
Kilkenny Dave
Koen Chris
O'Donoghue Darragh
Rossi Sabina
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