The ESO Large Programme First Stars

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/ Authors

P. Bonifacio, J. Andersen, S. Andrievsky, B. Barbuy, T. C. Beers, E. Caffau, R. Cayrel, E. Depagne, P. Francois, J. I. Gonzalez Hernandez

and 12 more authors

C. J. Hansen, F. Herwig, V. Hill, S. A. Korotin, H. -G. Ludwig, P. Molaro, B. Nordstrom, B. Plez, F. Primas, T. Sivarani, F. Spite, M. Spite

/ Abstract

In ESO period 65 (April-September 2000) the large programme 165.N-0276, led by Roger Cayrel, began making use of UVES at the Kueyen VLT telescope. Known within the Team and outside as ``First Stars'', it was aimed at obtaining high resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio spectra in the range 320 nm -- 1000 nm for a large sample of extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars identified from the HK objective prism survey.In this contribution we highlight the main results of the large programme.