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Selection of Metal‐poor Giant Stars Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric System

Selection of Metal‐poor Giant Stars Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric System

We present a method for the photometric selection of metal-poor halo giants from the imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). These stars are offset from the stellar locus in the g-r versus u-g color-color diagram. Based on a sample of 29 candidates for which spectra were taken, …