3-7 December 2018
Kavli IPMU
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Observing the Pristine Galaxy

3 Dec 2018, 17:20
20m
Lecture Hall (Kavli IPMU)

Lecture Hall

Kavli IPMU

5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba 227-8583

Speaker

Dr Else Starkenburg (AIP)

Description

The lowest metallicity stars that still exist today probably carry the imprint of very few supernova. As such, they represent our best observational approach to understand the First Stars. In this talk I will review the early (chemical) evolution of the Milky Way system from both modeling and observational perspectives. In particular, I will present results of the Pristine survey, a Franco-Canadian photometric narrow-band survey designed to efficiently decompose the metallicity structure of the Milky Way halo. I will show how we can use this great discriminatory power to hunt for the very rare extremely metal-poor stars (bearers of the chemical imprint of the first stars) and greatly improve our study of metal-poor satellites in the halo.

Affiliation

Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)

Talk/Poster Talk

Primary author

Dr Else Starkenburg (AIP)

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