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Searching for extremely alpha-poor stars in the Galactic Halo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2014

Qianfan Xing  and
Gang Zhao
Qianfan Xing
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, China email: qfxing@nao.cas.cn, gzhao@nao.cas.cn University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Gang Zhao
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, China email: qfxing@nao.cas.cn, gzhao@nao.cas.cn
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Abstract

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A few alpha-poor stars that show severe departures (over 0.4 dex deficiency in alpha-element abundance) from the general enhanced alpha-element chemical abundance trends of the halo have been discovered in recent years, such as BD +80°245, G4-36 and CS 22966-043. These ratios suggest a different chemical enrichment history for these stars than for the majority of the halo. Similarly low-alpha abundance patterns are also seen in the Sagittarius dSph galaxy. We present a method for searching of extremely alpha-poor stars from low-resolution stellar spectra of LAMOST pilot survey and attempt to create a large sample of these particular Galactic halo stars.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 9 , Symposium S298: Setting the scene for Gaia and LAMOST , May 2013 , pp. 449
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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