Streams, substructures, and the early history of the Milky Way

A Helmi - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The advent of the second data release of the Gaia mission, in combination with data from
large spectroscopic surveys, is revolutionizing our understanding of the Galaxy. Thanks to …

Galactic Archaeology with Gaia

AJ Deason, V Belokurov - New Astronomy Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The Gaia mission has revolutionized our view of the Milky Way and its satellite citizens. The
field of Galactic Archaeology has been piecing together the formation and evolution of the …

From nuclei to the cosmos: tracing heavy-element production with the oldest stars

A Frebel - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Understanding the origin of the elements has been a decades-long pursuit, with many open
questions remaining. Old stars found in the Milky Way and its dwarf satellite galaxies can …

The Pristine survey–I. Mining the Galaxy for the most metal-poor stars

E Starkenburg, N Martin, K Youakim… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present the Pristine survey, a new narrow-band photometric survey focused on the
metallicity-sensitive Ca H&K lines and conducted in the Northern hemisphere with the wide …

SEGUE-2: Old Milky Way Stars Near and Far

CM Rockosi, YS Lee, HL Morrison… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration 2 (SEGUE-2)
obtained 128,288 low-resolution spectra (R∼ 1800) of 118,958 unique stars in the first year …

The R-process alliance: First release from the Northern search for r-process-enhanced metal-poor stars in the galactic halo

CM Sakari, VM Placco, EM Farrell… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents the detailed abundances and r-process classifications of 126 newly
identified metal-poor stars as part of an ongoing collaboration, the R-Process Alliance. The …

The JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science Program. II. Survey Overview

DR Weisz, KBW McQuinn, A Savino… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the JWST Resolved Stellar Populations Early Release Science (ERS) program.
We obtained 27.5 hr of NIRCam and NIRISS imaging of three targets in the Local Group …

Probing the early Milky Way with GHOST spectra of an extremely metal-poor star in the Galactic disc

A Dovgal, KA Venn, F Sestito, CR Hayes… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Pristine_183. 6849+ 04.8619 (P1836849) is an extremely metal-poor ([Fe/H]=−
3.3±0.1) star on a prograde orbit confined to the Galactic disc. Such stars are rare and may …

Tracing the formation of the Milky Way through ultra metal-poor stars

F Sestito, N Longeard, NF Martin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We use Gaia DR2 astrometric and photometric data, published radial velocities and mesa
models to infer distances, orbits, surface gravities, and effective temperatures for all ultra …

The Cosmic Hunt for members in the outskirts of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies: Ursa Major I, Coma Berenices, and Boötes I

F Waller, KA Venn, F Sestito, J Jensen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Gaia EDR3 data were used to identify potential members in the outskirts of three ultra-faint
dwarf (UFD) galaxies: Coma Berenices (> 2 Rh), Ursa Major I (∼ 4 Rh), and Boötes I (∼ 4 …