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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2018

The Pristine survey IV: approaching the Galactic metallicity floor with the discovery of an ultra-metal-poor star

Else Starkenburg
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David Aguado
Carmela Lardo
Nicolas Martin
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Federico Sestito
Kim Venn
Kris Youakim
Carlos Allende prieto
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Anke Arentsen
Marc Gentile
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Jonay González hernández
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Collin Kielty
Helmer Koppelman
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Eline Tolstoy
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Raymond Carlberg
Vanessa Hill
Alan Mcconnachie
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Julio Navarro
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The early Universe presented a star formation environment that was almost devoid of heavy elements. The lowest metallicity stars thus provide a unique window into the earliest Galactic stages, but are exceedingly rare and difficult to find. Here, we present the discovery of an ultra-metal-poor star, Pristine_221.8781+9.7844, using narrow-band Ca H&K photometry from the Pristine survey. Follow-up medium- and high-resolution spectroscopy confirms the ultra-metal-poor nature of Pristine_221.8781+9.7844 ([Fe/H] = −4.66 ± 0.13 in 1D LTE) with an enhancement of 0.3–0.4 dex in α-elements relative to Fe, and an unusually low carbon abundance. We derive an upper limit of A(C) = 5.6, well below typical A(C) values for such ultra-metal-poor stars. This makes Pristine_221.8781+9.7844 one of the most metal-poor stars; in fact, it is very similar to the most metal-poor star known (SDSS J102915+172927). The existence of a class of ultra-metal-poor stars with low(er) carbon abundances suggest that there must have been several formation channels in the early Universe through which long-lived, low-mass stars were formed.
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Else Starkenburg, David Aguado, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Elisabetta Caffau, Pascale Jablonka, et al.. The Pristine survey IV: approaching the Galactic metallicity floor with the discovery of an ultra-metal-poor star. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, 481 (3), pp.3838-3852. ⟨10.1093/mnras/sty2276⟩. ⟨hal-02104752⟩
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