Search Results - "Casey, Andrew"
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THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST METAL-POOR STARS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-12-2014)“…The chemical abundances of large samples of extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars can be used to investigate metal-free stellar populations, supernovae, and…”
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An Ultra Metal-poor Star Near the Hydrogen-burning Limit
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-11-2018)“…Abstract It is unknown whether or not low-mass stars can form at low metallicity. While theoretical simulations of Population III (Pop III) star formation show…”
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CHEMISTRY OF THE MOST METAL-POOR STARS IN THE BULGE AND THE z ≳ 10 UNIVERSE
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-08-2015)“…Metal-poor stars in the Milky Way are local relics of the epoch of the first stars and the first galaxies. However, a low metallicity does not prove that a…”
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Snake in the Clouds: a new nearby dwarf galaxy in the Magellanic bridge
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Korg: Fitting, Model Atmosphere Interpolation, and Brackett Lines
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-02-2024)“…Abstract We describe several updates to Korg , a package for 1D LTE spectral synthesis of FGKM stars. Built-in functions to fit observed spectra via synthesis…”
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The RAVE-on Catalog of Stellar Atmospheric Parameters and Chemical Abundances for Chemo-dynamic Studies in the Gaia Era
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2017)“…The orbits, atmospheric parameters, chemical abundances, and ages of individual stars in the Milky Way provide the most comprehensive illustration of galaxy…”
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Iron-rich Metal-poor Stars and the Astrophysics of Thermonuclear Events Observationally Classified as Type Ia Supernovae. I. Establishing the Connection
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-09-2023)“…Abstract The progenitor systems and explosion mechanisms responsible for the thermonuclear events observationally classified as Type Ia supernovae are…”
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Dynamically Tagged Groups of Metal-poor Stars from the Best and Brightest Survey
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2022)“…Abstract Orbital characteristics based on Gaia Early Data Release 3 astrometric parameters are analyzed for ∼4000 metal-poor stars ([Fe/H] ≤ −0.8) compiled…”
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DERIVING STELLAR EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURES OF METAL-POOR STARS WITH THE EXCITATION POTENTIAL METHOD
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-05-2013)“…It is well established that stellar effective temperatures determined from photometry and spectroscopy yield systematically different results. We describe a…”
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Tidal Interactions between Binary Stars Can Drive Lithium Production in Low-mass Red Giants
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2019)“…Theoretical models of stellar evolution predict that most of the lithium inside a star is destroyed as the star becomes a red giant. However, observations…”
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Stellar spots cause measurable variations in atmospheric metallicity
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (04-07-2023)“…ABSTRACT To accurately measure a star’s atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances, it is crucial to have high-quality spectra. Analysing the detailed…”
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The TESS–HERMES survey data release 1: high-resolution spectroscopy of the TESS southern continuous viewing zone
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2018)“…Abstract The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will provide high-precision time series photometry for millions of stars with at least a half-hour…”
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The GALAH survey and Gaia DR2: dissecting the stellar disc’s phase space by age, action, chemistry, and location
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-06-2019)“…Abstract We use the second data releases of the European Space AgencyGaia astrometric survey and the high-resolution Galactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH)…”
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The impact of incorrect dissociation energies on inferred photospheric abundances
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (19-06-2024)“…ABSTRACT Spectral synthesis codes are essential for inferring stellar parameters and detailed chemical abundances. These codes require many physical inputs to…”
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The GALAH survey: effective temperature calibration from the InfraRed Flux Method in the Gaia system
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-10-2021)“…ABSTRACT In order to accurately determine stellar properties, knowledge of the effective temperature of stars is vital. We implement Gaia and 2MASS photometry…”
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Korg: A Modern 1D LTE Spectral Synthesis Package
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-02-2023)“…Abstract We present Korg , a new package for 1D LTE spectral synthesis of FGK stars, which computes theoretical spectra from the near-ultraviolet to the…”
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The tidal remnant of an unusually metal-poor globular cluster
Published in Nature (London) (30-07-2020)“…Globular clusters are some of the oldest bound stellar structures observed in the Universe 1 . They are ubiquitous in large galaxies and are believed to trace…”
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A hyper-runaway white dwarf in Gaia DR2 as a Type Iax supernova primary remnant candidate
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-10-2019)“…ABSTRACT Observations of stellar remnants linked to Type Ia and Type Iax supernovae are necessary to fully understand their progenitors. Multiple progenitor…”
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The GALAH Survey: second data release
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-08-2018)“…ABSTRACT The Galactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) survey is a large-scale stellar spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way, designed to deliver complementary…”
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OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON FIRST-STAR NUCLEOSYNTHESIS. II. SPECTROSCOPY OF AN ULTRA METAL-POOR CEMP-no STAR
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-12-2016)“…ABSTRACT We report on the first high-resolution spectroscopic analysis of HE 0020–1741 , a bright ( V = 12.9), ultra metal-poor ( = −4.1), carbon-enhanced ( =…”
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