Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-11-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in: Proceedings of ESO/MPA conference "The First Stars". 2 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
10.1007/10719504_6
We report on a search for extremely metal-poor ([Fe/H]<-3.0) turnoff stars in the Hamburg/ESO objective prism survey (HES). Metal-poor stars are selected by automatic spectral classification. Extensive simulations show that the selection efficiency for turnoff stars of [Fe/H]<-3.0 is >25% at B<16.5. Since the HES is more than 1 mag deeper than the HK survey of Beers et al. (1992), the HES offers the possibility to efficiently increase the total number of metal-poor stars by at least a factor of 4.
Beers Timothy C.
Christlieb Nn.
Gehren Thomas
Reetz Johannes
Reimers Dieter
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