Galactic Archaeology: The Lowest Metallicity Stars Timothy C. Beers Department of Physics & Astronomy Michigan State University & JINA: Joint Institute.

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Galactic Archaeology: The Lowest Metallicity Stars Timothy C. Beers Department of Physics & Astronomy Michigan State University & JINA: Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics SDSS

Nancy Roman The connection between chemistry and kinematics

3 Why the Fascination with Large Numbers of Metal-Poor Stars ? Extremely MP stars have recorded the heavy element abundances produced in the first generations of stars The shape of the low-metallicity tail of the MDF will (eventually) show structure that reveals the characteristic abundances of major epochs of star formation in early Galaxy Change in the nature of the MDF as a function of distance may reveal the assembly history of the MW Identification of relatively rare objects amongst MP stars, e.g., r-process / s-process enhanced stars that can be studied at higher resolution to understand detailed predictions of nucleosynthesis models

Find the Aardvark

Spectral Comparison [Fe/H]= 0 [Fe/H]= −4 [Fe/H]= −5.3 [Fe/H] = -∞

SDSS/SEGUE-1/SEGUE-2 SDSS -- obtained broad-band ugriz photometry for over 300,000,000 objects, many of them stars SDSS -- also obtained medium-res (R ~ 2000) spectroscopy for some 100,000 stars (mostly WD, CV, BHB, FTO, G dwarfs, M dwarfs, and calibration stars) SEGUE-1 -- targeted BHB, FTO, G dwarfs, MP stars, K giants (about 250,000) SEGUE-2 -- had similar targets but, refined selection algorithm, push to include more outer-halo tracers (150,000) In Total – About 500,000 stellar spectra, roughly 400,000 of which have available atmospheric params (Teff, log g, [Fe/H]) from the SSPP (SEGUE Stellar Parameter Pipeline)

The SDSS/SEGUE Footprint (RA/DEC)

The SDSS/SEGUE Footprint (l, b)

Sample Spectra

A Close Up Look at the SSPP Results

EVEN Closer !

Known MP Stars – Pre and Post SDSS/SEGUE-1/SEGUE-2 NameMetallicity Pre Post Metal-Poor [Fe/H] < ,000150,000+ Very Metal-Poor [Fe/H] < ,000 30,000+ Extremely Metal-Poor [Fe/H] < Ultra Metal-Poor [Fe/H] < Hyper Metal-Poor [Fe/H] < Mega Metal-Poor [Fe/H] < N.B. -- Only includes stars with S/N > 10/1, 4500 < Teff < 7000

Latest and Greatest from SDSS/SEGUE 13 SDSS/SEGUE N = S/N > 10/1 13

Comparison with HES TO/Giant Samples (Li et al., submitted)

Dual Halo Fits ?

D. Carollo et al. (2010) Kinematic Analysis of DR-7 “Calibration Stars” Follow-on of work from D. Carollo et al. (2007), demonstrating existence of inner/outer halo populations, including 32,360 unique calibration stars Determination of velocity ellipsoids for thick disk, MWTD, inner, outer halos Modeling of fractions of various components in local sample (d < 4 kpc)

Velocity Ellipsoids

Fractions of Components

The In-Situ MDF For the full sample of calibration stars, as one goes from close to the plane to farther away, the nature of the as-observed MDF changes From TD/MWTD to Inner/ Outer Halo

Analysis of SEGUE Vertical Photometry Stripes (De Jong et al. 2010) The vertical photometry stripes of SEGUE were obtained in order to sample the transition from disk to halo One can model the number density of stars in these stripes by carving them into small “boxes” in apparent magnitude and color, then fitting them to template isochrones (assuming a constant (old) age, with metallicities fixed to three values typical of the assumed populations

CMD of Summed SEGUE Stripes Thick disk [Fe/H] = -0.6 Inner halo [Fe/H] = -1.3 Outer halo [Fe/H] = -2.2

Hess Diagram Models and Residuals

Derived Populations

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25 Implications One can now target outer-halo stars in order to elucidate their chemical histories ([α/Fe], [C/Fe]), and possibly their accretion histories One can now preferentially SELECT outer-halo stars based on proper motion cuts in the local volume One can now take advantage of the lower [Fe/H], in general, of outer-halo stars to find the most metal- poor stars (all three stars with [Fe/H] < -4.5 have properties consistent with outer-halo membership) One can soon constrain models for formation / evolution of the Galaxy that take all of the chemical and kinematic information into account (e.g., Tumlinson 2006)

26 Photometric Metallicity from ugr Ivezić et al ugriz

SDSS Stripe 82 Multiply imaged during SDSS-II for the Supernova Survey Best (yet) ground-based ugriz photometry available Errors in all bands < 0.01 mags 27 Stripe 82 in BLUE

Recalibrated isochrones ugriz Ivezic et al. (2008) ugriz An et al (Preliminary) Metallicity Distribution

PreliminaryPreliminary Metallicity Distribution to 30 kpc ugriz

Full Survey Data

Currently Best Metallicity Map

[C/Fe] For SDSS/SEGUE Stars

[C/Fe] for SDSS/SEGUE Stars

Primarily a measure of Ti and Mg 35 [α/Fe] for SDSS/SEGUE Stars

Example Fits

[α/Fe] for SDSS/SEGUE Stars Roughly 45,000 F/G dwarfs, S/N > 20/1 [α/Fe] ratios are critical probes of the environment in which metal-poor stars were born (masses of parent sub-halos) [α/Fe] ratios are critical probes of the accretion history of the Galaxy (Johnston et al. 2008) Can estimate to 20/1 (Lee et al. 2010, in prep)

The MW Outer-Halo and the SDSS Ultra-Faint dSphs Bootes I observed with LRIS on Keck (Lai et al. in preparation) R = 2000, analyzed with the n-SSPP [C/Fe] also estimated LOADED with CEMP stars

Goals for Future Observations Fully exploit wealth of data from SDSS/SEGUE ([C/Fe], [α/Fe]) to capitalize on understanding halo and disk systems Coordinate high-res follow-up of SDSS/SEGUE metal-poor stars Fully participate with LAMOST medium-res survey of stars in the Milky Way (including SSPP development) Participate in follow-up spectroscopy of SkyMapper metal-poor candidates as they are identified Fully participate in APOGEE survey, as part of SDSS-III Initiate coordination with HERMES, LSST, Gaia for Galactic research in the coming decade