publications

ADS library of Pristine papers here

Main Pristine survey:

• The Pristine survey - I. Mining the Galaxy for the most metal-poor stars (Starkenburg, Martin et al. 2017)

• The Pristine survey - II. A sample of bright stars observed with FEROS (Caffau et al. 2017)

• The Pristine survey - III. Spectroscopic confirmation of an efficient search for extremely metal-poor stars (Youakim et al. 2017)

• The Pristine survey - IV. approaching the Galactic metallicity floor with the discovery of an ultra-metal-poor star (Starkenburg et al. 2018)

• The Pristine survey - V. A bright star sample observed with SOPHIE (Bonifacio et al. 2019)

• The Pristine survey - VI. The first three years of medium-resolution follow-up spectroscopy of Pristine EMP star candidates (Aguado, Youakim et al. 2019)

• The Pristine survey - VII. A cleaner view of the Galactic outer halo using blue horizontal branch stars (Starkenburg et al. 2019)

• The Pristine Survey - VIII. The metallicity distribution function of the Milky Way halo down to the extremely metal-poor regime (Youakim et al. 2020)

• The Pristine survey - IX. CFHT ESPaDOnS Spectroscopic Analysis of 115 Bright Metal-Poor Candidate Stars (Venn et al. 2019)

• The Pristine survey - X. a large population of low-metallicity stars permeates the Galactic disk (Sestito et al. 2020)

• The Pristine survey - XI. the FORS2 sample (Caffau et al. 2020)

• The Pristine survey - XII. Gemini-GRACES chemo-dynamical study of newly discovered extremely metal-poor stars in the Galaxy (Kielty et al. 2021)

• The Pristine survey - XIII. Uncovering the very metal-poor tail of the thin disc (Fernández-Alvar et al. 2021)

• The Pristine survey - XIV. chemical analysis of two ultra-metal-poor stars (Lardo et al. 2021)

• The Pristine survey - XV. A CFHT ESPaDOnS view on the Milky Way halo and disc populations (Lucchesi et al. 2022)

• A stellar stream remnant of a globular cluster below the metallicity floor (Martin et al. 2022a, Nature)

• The Pristine survey - XVI. The metallicity of 26 stellar streams around the Milky Way detected with the STREAMFINDER in Gaia EDR3 (Martin et al. 2022b)

• The Pristine survey - XVII. The C-19 stream is dynamically hot and more extended than previously thought (Yuan et al. 2022)

• The Pristine survey - XVIII. C-19: Tidal debris of a dark matter-dominated globular cluster? (Errani et al. 2022)

• The Pristine survey - XIX. Cu and Zn abundances in metal-poor giants (Caffau, Lombardo et al. 2023)

• The Pristine survey - XX. GTC follow-up observations of extremely metal-poor stars identified from Pristine and LAMOST (Arentsen et al. 2023)

• The Pristine survey - XXI. Exploring the metal-poor boundary with ESPaDoNS (Lombardo et al. 2023)

• The Pristine survey - XXII. A serendipitous discovery of an extremely Li-rich very metal-poor giant and a new method of  6Li/7Li isotope measurement (Sitnova et al. 2023)

• The Pristine survey - XXIII. Data Release 1 and an all-sky metallicity catalogue based on Gaia DR3 BP/RP spectro-photometry (Martin & Starkenburg et al. 2023, preprint)

• The Pristine survey XXIV: The Galactic underdogs - Dynamic tales of a Milky Way metal-poor population (González Rivera de La Vernhe et al. 2024, preprint)

• The Pristine survey - XXVI. The very metal-poor Galaxy: Chemodynamics through the follow-up of the Pristine-Gaia synthetic catalogue (Viswanathan et al. 2024, preprint)

Dwarf galaxy survey:

• The Pristine dwarf galaxy survey - I. A detailed photometric and spectroscopic study of the very metal-poor Draco II satellite (Longeard et al. 2018)

• The Pristine Dwarf-Galaxy survey - II. In-depth observational study of the faint Milky Way satellite Sagittarius II (Longeard et al. 2020)

• The Pristine Dwarf-Galaxy survey - III. Revealing the nature of the Milky Way globular cluster Sagittarius II (Longeard et al. 2021) 

• The Pristine Dwarf-Galaxy survey - IV. Probing the outskirts of the dwarf galaxy Boötes I (Longeard et al. 2022)

• The Pristine Dwarf-Galaxy survey - V. The edges of the dwarf galaxy Hercules (Longeard et al. 2023)

Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS):

• The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) I: Tracing the kinematics of metal-poor stars in the Galactic bulge (Arentsen et al. 2020a)

• The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) II: Uncovering the most metal-poor populations in the inner Milky Way (Arentsen et al. 2020b)

• The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) III: Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars in the bulge (Arentsen et al. 2021)

• The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) IV: A photometric metallicity analysis of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Vitali et al. 2022)

• The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) V: a chemo-dynamical investigation of the early assembly of the Milky Way with the most metal-poor stars in the bulge (Sestito et al. 2023)

• The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) VI: Different vertical distributions between two DIBs at 442.8 nm and 862.1 nm (Zhao et al. 2023)

• The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) VII: a discovery of the first inner Galaxy CEMP-r/s star (Mashonkina et al. 2023)

• GHOST Commissioning Science Results II: a very metal-poor star witnessing the early Galactic assembly (Sestito et al. 2024)

• The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) VIII: Characterising the orbital properties of the ancient, very metal-poor inner Milky Way (Ardern-Arentsen et al. 2024)

• Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) IX. The largest detailed chemical analysis of very metal-poor stars in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (Sestito, Vitali et al. 2024, preprint)

• The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) X. Probing the early chemical evolution of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy with carbon abundances (Sestito, Ardern-Arentsen et al. 2024, preprint)

PhD theses: 

• Nicolas Longeard, September 2019 - An in-depth study of the faintest galaxies with dedicated spectroscopy based on the Pristine Survey (Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg)

• Kris Youakim, June 2020 - Galactic archaeology with metal-poor stars from the Pristine survey (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam/Universität Potsdam)

• Anke Arentsen, September 2020 - Galactic Archaeology with the oldest stars in the Milky Way (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam/Universität Potsdam)

• Federico Sestito, November 2020 - Galactic Archæology in the Gaia era: unveiling the formation of the Milky Way with extremely metal-poor stars (Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg/Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam)

• Collin Kielty, December 2020 - Chemo-dynamics of Newly Discovered Metal-Poor Stars and Improved Spectroscopic Tools (University of Victoria)

• Linda Lombardo, December 2022 - (Université PSL, Paris)

• Romain Lucchesi, April 2022 - (EPFL)