Metal Abundances and Kinematics of Bright Metal-poor Giants Selected from the LSE Survey: Implications for the Metal-weak Thick Disk

Beers, Timothy C; Drilling, John S; Rossi, Silvia; Chiba, Masashi; Rhee, Jaehyon; Fuhrmeister, Birgit; Norris, John; von Hippel, Ted

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Metal Abundances and Kinematics of Bright Metal-poor Giants Selected from the LSE Survey: Implications for the Metal-weak Thick Disk

Date

2002

Authors

Beers, Timothy C

Drilling, John S

Rossi, Silvia

Chiba, Masashi

Rhee, Jaehyon

Fuhrmeister, Birgit

Norris, John

von Hippel, Ted

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Abstract

We report medium-resolution (1-2 Å) spectroscopy and broadband (UBV) photometry for a sample of 39 bright stars (the majority of which are likely to be giants) selected as metal-deficient candidates from an objective-prism survey concentrating on Galacti