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Using Metal-Poor Stars in the Inner Galaxy to Uncover the Ancient Milky Way

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2024

Madeline Lucey Open the ORCID record for Madeline Lucey [Opens in a new window]
Madeline Lucey*
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Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin, 2515 Speedway Boulevard, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
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email: m_lucey@utexas.edu
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Abstract

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The chemo-dynamics of the stellar populations in the Galactic Bulge inform and constrain the Milky Way’s formation and evolution. The metal-poor population is particularly important in light of cosmological simulations, which predict that some of the oldest stars in the Galaxy now reside in its center. The metal-poor bulge appears to consist of multiple stellar populations that require chemo-dynamical analyses to disentangle. In this paper, I describe the detailed chemo-dynamical study of the metal-poor stars in the inner Galaxy, named The COMBS Survey which uses VLT/FLAMES spectra of 350 metal-poor stars. I discuss the results and the implications for early Milky Way formation and chemical evolution. In addition, I preview results from an ongoing survey of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars, which are thought to be solely enriched by the first generation of stars.

Keywords

Galaxy: bulgeGalaxy: evolutionstars: Population IIstars: abundances
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 18 , Symposium S377: Early Disk-Galaxy Formation from JWST to the Milky Way , December 2022 , pp. 89 - 92
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