Most Galactic metal-poor stars exhibit enhanced α-abundances（e.g.[Mg/Fe] ～ ＋0.4） according to previous studies of stellar chemical compositions.However, a handful of metal-poor stars with large deficiencies in Mg...Most Galactic metal-poor stars exhibit enhanced α-abundances（e.g.[Mg/Fe] ～ ＋0.4） according to previous studies of stellar chemical compositions.However, a handful of metal-poor stars with large deficiencies in Mg（e.g. [Mg/Fe]～-0.2） show severe departures from this α-enhancement trend. The sub-solar[Mg/Fe] ratios of these anomalous stars indicate that they possess different chemical enrichment histories than the majority of Galactic metal-poor stars. In previous work,we presented a method to select Mg-poor metal-poor stars from low-resolution SDSS spectra based on a spectral matching technique. In this paper, a similar method is applied to low-resolution（R ～ 1800） LAMOST spectra. Stellar [Mg/Fe] abundances are determined by using stellar parameters delivered by the LAMOST Data Release2 catalog. From a sample of ～ 60 000 stars with atmospheric parameters in the range Teff = [5500, 6500] K and [Fe/H] = [-2.4, ＋0.5], we select 15 candidate Mg-poor metal-poor stars.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11390371, 11233004, 11303040 and U1431106)
文摘Most Galactic metal-poor stars exhibit enhanced α-abundances（e.g.[Mg/Fe] ～ ＋0.4） according to previous studies of stellar chemical compositions.However, a handful of metal-poor stars with large deficiencies in Mg（e.g. [Mg/Fe]～-0.2） show severe departures from this α-enhancement trend. The sub-solar[Mg/Fe] ratios of these anomalous stars indicate that they possess different chemical enrichment histories than the majority of Galactic metal-poor stars. In previous work,we presented a method to select Mg-poor metal-poor stars from low-resolution SDSS spectra based on a spectral matching technique. In this paper, a similar method is applied to low-resolution（R ～ 1800） LAMOST spectra. Stellar [Mg/Fe] abundances are determined by using stellar parameters delivered by the LAMOST Data Release2 catalog. From a sample of ～ 60 000 stars with atmospheric parameters in the range Teff = [5500, 6500] K and [Fe/H] = [-2.4, ＋0.5], we select 15 candidate Mg-poor metal-poor stars.
