Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Feb 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009noao.prop..356r&link_type=abstract
NOAO Proposal ID #2009A-0356
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The old and most metal-poor stars in the halo and thick disk of the Galaxy provide vital clues for unraveling the structure, kinematics, and chemical composition of the early Milky Way. We have recently initiated a long-term PUMPSS (Purdue Ultra Metal-Poor Star Survey) program to discover very metal-poor (VMP) stars newly and analyze their chemo- dynamical properties. We propose to carry out medium-resolution spectroscopy for new 350 candidates of field VMP red-giant stars with [Fe/H] ≤ -2.0 in the halo and thick disk. These new VMP red- giant candidates (N ~ 1400) have been systematically selected by utilizing the mature photometric data archives of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), and we seek to use KPNO 2.1m and CTIO 1.5m telescopes to spectroscopically verify their metallicity and luminosity class. This PUMPSS program will significantly increase the number of identified VMP stars over a range of depths and sky coverage (including the regions not covered by ongoing surveys for VMP stars), and so provide the astronomy community with a number of relatively bright (13 < B < 15.5) VMP red-giant stars useful for high-dispersion abundance analysis with the currently available 6- 10m class telescopes (before the advent of 25-30m class telescopes).
Rhee Wonho
Rhee (Jay) Jaehyon
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