We give a progress report on the activities within the CIFIST Team related to the search for extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's (SDSS) spectroscopic catalogue. So far, the search has provided 25 candidates with metallicities around or smaller than -3. For 15 candidates, high-resolution spectroscopy with UVES at the

We present the results of a dedicated search for extremely metal-poor stars in the Fornax, Sculptor, and Sextans dSphs. Five stars were selected from two earlier VLT/Giraffe and HET/HRS surveys and subsequently followed up at high spectroscopic resolution with VLT/UVES. All of them turned out to have [Fe/H] ⪉ -3 and three stars are below [Fe/H] ~

In this paper we present the photometric properties of a sample of extremely red galaxies (EROs, R-Ks≥5.6), found in the field of the lensing cluster Abell 1835. Using optical, near- and mid-infrared colours, we compare our ERO sample with other galaxy populations with extreme colours, like distant red galaxies (DRGs, J-Ks≥2.3) and infrared

We present preliminary results on the analysis of very deep echelle UVES (8m VLT) spectra of the Galactic H II region S311 (NGC 2467) located outside the Solar circle. The data cover from 3100 to 10450 Å with a resolution R ~ 8800. We have detected and measured more than 300 emission lines, some of them are faint recombination lines of heavy

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At present, the precision of deep ultraviolet photometry is somewhat limited by the dearth of faint ultraviolet standard stars. In an effort to improve this situation, we present a uniform catalog of 11 new faint (u ~ 17) ultraviolet standard stars. High-precision photometry of these stars has been taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Galaxy