A Search for Chemical Signatures of Galactic Mergers
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We present preliminary chemical abundance analyses of a group of high-velocity metal-poor stars. This report describes our work in progress. We examine the derived abundances in the context of previous studies of metal-poor stars with unusual abundances and/or extreme galactocentric orbits. Included in this sample are BD+80 245, a star previously known to have unusually low α-element abundances, and G4-36, a new low-α star.
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