The Ca II H and K lines are among the few features available to infer the metallicity of extremely metal-poor stars from medium-resolution spectroscopy...
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PublicaciónAccurate Metallicities for Very Metal-poor Stars from the Ca II Infrared Triplet
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PublicaciónBACCHUS Analysis of Weak Lines in APOGEE Spectra (BAWLAS)
Elements with weak and blended spectral features in stellar spectra are challenging to measure and require specialized analysis methods to precisely measure...
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PublicaciónChemical Analysis of the Brightest Star of the Cetus II Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxy Candidate
We present a detailed chemical abundance analysis of the brightest star in the ultrafaint dwarf (UFD) galaxy candidate Cetus II from high-resolution Magellan...
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NoticiaDetectan grandes cantidades de oxígeno en la atmósfera de una estrella primitiva
Científicos del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), en colaboración con la Universidad de Cambridge y la Universidad de California en San Diego...
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PublicaciónEvolution of the Mass-Metallicity Relation from Redshift z ≈ 8 to the Local Universe
A tight positive correlation between the stellar mass and the gas-phase metallicity of galaxies has been observed at low redshifts. The redshift evolution of...
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PublicaciónOpen Cluster Chemical Homogeneity throughout the Milky Way
The chemical homogeneity of surviving stellar clusters contains important clues about interstellar medium (ISM) mixing efficiency, star formation, and the...
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PublicaciónOrbital Torus Imaging: Using Element Abundances to Map Orbits and Mass in the Milky Way
Many approaches to galaxy dynamics assume that the gravitational potential is simple and the distribution function is time invariant. Under these assumptions...
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PublicaciónPhotoionized Herbig-Haro Objects in the Orion Nebula through Deep High Spectral Resolution Spectroscopy. II. HH 204
We analyze the physical conditions, chemical composition, and other properties of the photoionized Herbig-Haro (HH) object HH 204 through Very Large Telescope...
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PublicaciónPhysical Parameters of SDSS Stars, the Nature of the SDSS `Ring around the Galaxy', and the SEGUE Project
Although the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) was primarily envisioned as a tool for understanding the nature of the `high redshift' universe, significant...