CEMP star


Carbon enhanced metal poor stars, usually referred to as CEMP stars, are a class of chemically peculiar star. CEMP stars have > +1, which means compared to the Sun these stars have carbon enhanced at least ten times more than iron, and < -1, meaning that iron is less than a tenth that in the Sun.
These are further categorized by whether r-process or s-process elements are enhanced. CEMP-no stars have no enhancement. Some of these are the earliest formed in the Milky Way. The others are termed CEMP-r, CEMP-s, or CEMP-r/s. Metal poor stars are more likely to be CEMP stars, and once < -5.0, then all the stars are CEMP stars.

Subdivisions

CEMP-r stars have > +1 and < 0.
CEMP-s stars have > +1 and > +0.5 80% of CEMP stars fall into this category.
CEMP-r/s stars have between 0 and +0.5 so they are under the level for CEMP-s stars.
CEMP-no stars have < 0. About 20% of CEMP stars fall into this category.