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The Pristine survey - XX: GTC follow-up observations of extremely metal-poor stars identified from Pristine and LAMOST

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Ultra metal-poor stars ($\rm {[Fe/H]} < -4.0$) are very rare, and finding them is a challenging task. Both narrow-band photometry and low-resolution spectroscopy have been useful tools for identifying candidates, and in this work we combine both approaches. We cross-matched metallicity-sensitive photometry from the Pristine survey with the low-resolution spectroscopic LAMOST database, and re-analysed all LAMOST spectra with $\rm {[Fe/H]} _{\it Pristine} <-2.5$. We find that ~1/3rd of this sample (selected without $\rm {[Fe/H]} _{\it Pristine}$ quality cuts) also have spectroscopic $\rm {[Fe/H]} < -2.5$. From this sample, containing many low signal-to-noise (S/N) spectra, we selected eleven stars potentially having $\rm {[Fe/H]} < -4.0$ or $\rm {[Fe/H]} < -3.0$ with very high carbon abundances, and we performed higher S/N medium-resolution spectroscopic follow-up with OSIRIS on the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). We confirm their extremely low metallicities, with a mean of $\rm {[Fe/H]} = -3.4$ and the most metal-poor star having $\rm {[Fe/H]} = -3.8$. Three of these are clearly carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars with $+1.65 < \rm {[C/Fe]} < +2.45$. The two most carbon-rich stars are either among the most metal-poor CEMP-s stars or the most carbon-rich CEMP-no stars known, the third is likely a CEMP-no star. We derived orbital properties for the OSIRIS sample and find that only one of our targets can be confidently associated with known substructures/accretion events, and that three out of four inner halo stars have prograde orbits. Large spectroscopic surveys may contain many hidden extremely and ultra metal-poor stars, and adding additional information from e.g. photometry as in this work can uncover them more efficiently and confidently.
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insu-03952792 , version 1 (12-07-2023)

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Anke Arentsen, David S. Aguado, Federico Sestito, González Jonay I. Hernández, Nicolas F. Martin, et al.. The Pristine survey - XX: GTC follow-up observations of extremely metal-poor stars identified from Pristine and LAMOST. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023, ⟨10.1093/mnras/stad043⟩. ⟨insu-03952792⟩
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