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RAVE调查:富含极贫金属恒星

The RAVE Survey: Rich in Very Metal-Poor Stars

Jon P. Fulbright, Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Gregory R. Ruchti, G. F. Gilmore, Eva Grebel, O. ~Bienayme, J. Binney, J. Bland-Hawthorn, R. Campbell, K. C. Freeman, B. … 展开作者

Jon P. Fulbright, Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Gregory R. Ruchti, G. F. Gilmore, Eva Grebel, O. ~Bienayme, J. Binney, J. Bland-Hawthorn, R. Campbell, K. C. Freeman, B. K. Gibson, A. Helmi, U. Munari, J. F. Navarro, Q. A. Parker, W. Reid, G. M. Seabroke, A. Siebert, A. Siviero, M. Steinmetz, F. G. Watson, M. Williams, T. Zwitter

摘要:

非常贫金属的恒星在化学演化、恒星形成和星系演化中的许多问题上具有明显的重要性。找到这些恒星的完整样本,这些恒星也足够明亮,可以进行高精度的个体分析,这是相当令人感兴趣的。我们在这里证明,恒星铁丰度[Fe/H] < -2 dex,并下降到低于-4 dex,可以有效地识别在径向速度实验(RAVE)调查的明亮的恒星,而不需要额外的验证性观测。我们确定了校准的钙三重态线测量的RAVE光谱到真正的[Fe/H]的等效宽度,使用高光谱分辨率数据的一个子集的恒星。这些RAVE铁丰度足够准确,足以满足对确证性更高分辨率光谱的需求。我们的初步研究已经从包含大约20万颗恒星的RAVE数据库中确定了631颗[Fe/H] <=-2的恒星。这个基于RAVE的样本对于[Fe/H] <-2.5的恒星是完整的,允许统计样本分析。我们确定了三颗[Fe/H] <=-4的恒星。其中,一颗已知是“超贫金属”星,一颗是已知的碳增强贫金属星,但我们得到[Fe/H]=-4.0,而不是公布的[Fe/H]=-3.3,并得出[C/Fe] =+0.9,[N/Fe] =+3.2,第三颗处于我们的S/N极限。RAVE观测正在进行中,应该证明是一个明亮,容易研究,金属非常贫乏的恒星的丰富来源。

英文摘要:

Very metal-poor stars are of obvious importance for many problems in chemical evolution, star formation, and galaxy evolution. Finding complete samples of such stars which are also bright enough to allow high-precision individual analyses is of considerable interest. We demonstrate here that stars with iron abundances [Fe/H] < -2 dex, and down to below -4 dex, can be efficiently identified within the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) survey of bright stars, without requiring additional confirmatory observations. We determine a calibration of the equivalent width of the Calcium triplet lines measured from the RAVE spectra onto true [Fe/H], using high spectral resolution data for a subset of the stars. These RAVE iron abundances are accurate enough to obviate the need for confirmatory higher-resolution spectroscopy. Our initial study has identified 631 stars with [Fe/H] <= -2, from a RAVE database containing approximately 200,000 stars. This RAVE-based sample is complete for stars with [Fe/H] < -2.5, allowing statistical sample analysis. We identify three stars with [Fe/H] <= -4. Of these, one was already known to be `ultra metal-poor', one is a known carbon-enhanced metal-poor star, but we obtain [Fe/H]= -4.0, rather than the published [Fe/H]=-3.3, and derive [C/Fe] = +0.9, and [N/Fe] = +3.2, and the third is at the limit of our S/N. RAVE observations are on-going and should prove to be a rich source of bright, easily studied, very metal-poor stars.

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