KORDOPATIS , Georges

In the era of large spectroscopic surveys, galactic archaeology aims to disentangle the merging history of the Milky Way by finding relics of past accretion events. The goal of this thesis is to shed light to the understanding of the formation of the galactic thick disc by analysing 700 low resolution spectra obtained in the near infrared. The...

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Context. Over the past few years, new multiplex spectrographs have emerged to observe several millions of stars. The optimisation of these instruments (w.r.t. their resolution or wavelength range), their associated surveys (choice of instrumental set-up), and their parameterisation pipelines require methods that estimate which wavelengths (or...

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Context. The accretion history of the Milky Way is still unknown, despite the recent discovery of stellar systems that stand out in terms of their energy-angular momentum space, such as Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage. In particular, it is still unclear how these groups are linked and to what extent they are well-mixed. Aims. We investigate the...

Context. The accretion history of the Milky Way is still unknown, despite the recent discovery of stellar systems that stand out in terms of their energy-angular momentum space, such as Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage. In particular, it is still unclear how these groups are linked and to what extent they are well-mixed.Aims. We investigate the...

Although diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) were discovered over 100 years ago, for most of them, their origins are still unknown. Investigation on the correlations between different DIBs is an important way to study the behavior and distributions of their carriers. Based on stacking thousands of spectra from the Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey, we...

In this paper we study high resolution spectra of 19 stars that have metallicity estimates below -3.5 using at least two metallicity sensitive photometric indices based on Pristine photometry. The purpose is to understand what kind of stars populate this parameter space, together with extremely metal-poor stars. This because we plan to...

ABSTRACT We evaluate the rotational velocity of stars observed by the Pristine survey towards the Galactic anticentre spanning a wide range of metallicities from the extremely metal-poor regime ([Fe/H] < −3) to nearly solar metallicity. In the Galactic anticentre direction, the rotational velocity (Vϕ) is similar to the tangential velocity in...

The most metal-poor stars (e.g., [Fe/H] ≤ -2.5) are the ancient fossils from the early assembly epoch of our Galaxy. They very likely formed before the the thick disk. Recent studies have shown that a non-negligible fraction of them have prograde planar orbits, which means that their origin is a puzzle. It has been suggested that a later-formed...