Detection of a Population of Carbon-enhanced Metal-poor Stars in the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy*

The study of the chemical abundances of metal-poor stars in dwarf galaxies provides a venue to constrain paradigms of chemical enrichment and galaxy formation. Here we present metallicity and carbon abundance measurements of 100 stars in Sculptor from medium-resolution (R ∼ 2000) spectra taken with...

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Main Authors: Simon, Joshua D. (Author), Thompson, Ian B. (Author), Shectman, Stephen A. (Author), Mateo, Mario (Author), Bailey, John I. (Author), Crane, Jeffrey D. (Author), Walker, Matthew (Author), Frebel, Anna L. (Contributor), Chiti, Anirudh (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society, 2018-08-27T15:04:59Z.
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