Bibcode
Beers, Timothy C.; Christlieb, Norbert; Norris, John E.; Bessell, Michael S.; Wilhelm, Ronald; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Yanny, Brian; Rockosi, Constance; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Rossi, Silvia; Lee, Young Sun
Referencia bibliográfica
From Lithium to Uranium: Elemental Tracers of Early Cosmic Evolution, IAU Symposium Proceedings of the international Astronomical Union 228, Held in Paris, France, May 23-27, 2005. edited by Hill, V.; François, P.; Primas, F. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005., pp.175-183
Fecha de publicación:
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2005
Número de citas
23
Número de citas referidas
18
Descripción
We report on the distribution of metallicities, [Fe/H], for very
metal-poor stars in the halo of the Galaxy. Although the primary
information on the nature of the Metallicity Distribution Function (MDF)
is obtained from the two major recent surveys for metal-poor stars, the
HK survey of Beers and collaborators, and the Hamburg/ESO Survey of
Christlieb and collaborators, we also discuss the MDF derived from the
publicly available database of stellar spectra and photometry contained
in the third data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS DR-3).
Even though the SDSS was not originally planned as a stellar survey,
significant numbers of stars have been observed to date - DR-3 contains
spectroscopy for over 70,000 stars, at least half of which are suitable
for abundance determinations. There are as many very metal-poor ([Fe/H]
) stars in DR-3 as have been obtained from all previous survey efforts
combined. We also discuss prospects for significant expansion of the
list of metal-poor stars to be obtained from the recently funded
extension of the SDSS, which includes the project SEGUE: Sloan Extension
for Galactic Understanding and Evolution.