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Carbon and nitrogen in solar twins
Abundances of light elements in dwarf stars of different ages are important constraints for stellar yields, Galactic chemical evolution and exoplanet chemical composition... -
Rapidly evolving transients discovered by DES
Rapidly evolving transients (RETs), also termed fast blue optical transients, are a recently discovered group of astrophysical events that display rapid luminosity evolution.... -
Galactic disc Pristine low-metallicity stars
The orbits of the least chemically enriched stars open a window on the formation of our Galaxy when it was still in its infancy. The common picture is that these low-metallicity... -
Abundance determination in HII regions
We use a sample of 154 observations of 124 HII regions that have measurements of both T_e_[OIII] and T_e_[NII], compiled from the literature, to explore the behaviour of the... -
Chemo-dynamics of outer halo dwarf stars
The low-metallicity, kinematically interesting dwarf stars studied by Stephens & Boesgaard (2002AJ....123.1647S, SB02) are re-examined using Gaia DR2 astrometry, and updated... -
Lithium and beryllium in Gaia-Enceladus galaxy
Data from Gaia DR2 and The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment surveys revealed a relatively new component in the inner Galactic halo, which is likely the... -
Spectra quality impact on nebular abundances
I explore the effects of observational errors on nebular chemical abundances using a sample of 179 optical spectra of 42 planetary nebulae (PNe) observed by different authors.... -
Solar siblings search with APOGEE and Gaia DR2
We make use of APOGEE and Gaia data to identify stars that are consistent with being born in the same association or star cluster as the Sun. We limit our analysis to stars that... -
The Pristine survey XI: the FORS2 sample
Extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars are old objects that mostly formed very early after the big bang. They are rare and, to select them, we have to rely on low-resolution... -
Chemical abundances of Seyfert 2 AGNs - I
We compare the oxygen abundance (O/H) of the narrow-line regions (NLRs) of Seyfert 2 AGNs obtained through strong-line methods and from direct measurements of the electron... -
The Pristine survey. IX.
A chemo-dynamical analysis of 115 metal-poor candidate stars selected from the narrow-band Pristine photometric survey is presented based on CFHT high-resolution ESPaDOnS... -
Are exoplanetesimals differentiated?
Metals observed in the atmospheres of white dwarfs suggest that many have recently accreted planetary bodies. In some cases, the compositions observed suggest the accretion of... -
APOGEE southern GCs with the BACCHUS code
We investigate the Fe, C, N, O, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Ce, and Nd abundances of 2283 red giant stars in 31 globular clusters from high-resolution spectra observed in both the... -
Abundance analyses of hot subdwarfs with Subaru
The discovery of extremely zirconium- and lead-rich surfaces amongst a small subgroup of hot subdwarfs has provoked questions pertaining to chemical peculiarity in hot star... -
Sub-Chandrasekhar progenitors for Type Ia SNe
A non-local-thermodynamic-equilibrium level population model of the first and second ionization stages of iron, nickel, and cobalt is used to fit a sample of XShooter optical +... -
s-process enhanced stars in the LAMOST survey
Here we present the discovery of 895 s-process-rich candidates from 454180 giant stars observed by the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) using a... -
Extremely metal-poor stars in SkyMapper DR1.1
We present and discuss the results of a search for extremely metal-poor stars based on photometry from data release DR1.1 of the SkyMapper imaging survey of the southern sky. In... -
Spectroscopy of extremely metal-poor stars
We present results from the analysis of high-resolution spectra obtained with the Keck HIRES spectrograph for a sample of 17 candidate extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars... -
Metallicities of Pristine stars
The Pristine survey is a narrow-band, photometric survey focused around the wavelength region of the CaII H&K absorption lines, designed to efficiently search for extremely... -
Chemical abundances of 257 giant stars
We performed a uniform and detailed abundance analysis of 12 refractory elements for a sample of 257 G- and K-type evolved stars from the CORALIE planet search program. This...