VizieR Online Data Catalog: Initial vs final sample of the VMP HK/HES stars (Limberg+, 2021)

In this work, we have considered the dynamical properties of the very metal poor (VMP; [Fe/H]<~-2.0) stars primarily selected from the HK/HES surveys. Over the past three decades, the metal-poor candidates identified in these surveys have been followed-up with medium-resolution (1200<~R~2000) spectroscopy with a wide variety of telescopes and instruments. The typical spectral coverage of these spectra are 3500-5000Å, although there was wide variation. The decisions as to which targets to observe are difficult to quantify, since many observers contributed to these efforts. In addition, in some cases, photometric information from independent efforts (HK), or taken directly from an approximate calibration of the prism spectra (HES), were obtained in advance of the spectroscopic follow-up.

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