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Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey. IX.

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The most metal-poor stars provide valuable insights into the early chemical enrichment history of a system, carrying the chemical imprints of the first generations of supernovae.

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The most metal-poor region of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy remains inadequately observed and characterised. To date, only 4 stars with [Fe/H]<-2.0 have been chemically analysed with high-resolution spectroscopy.

In this study, we present the most extensive chemical abundance analysis of 12 low-metallicity stars with metallicities down to [Fe/H]=-3.26 and located in the main body of Sagittarius. These targets, selected from the Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey, were observed using the MIKE high-resolution spectrograph at the Magellan-Clay telescope, which allowed us to measure up to 17 chemical species. The chemical composition of these stars reflects the imprint of a variety of type II supernovae (SNe II).

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A combination of low- to intermediate-mass highenergy SNe and hypernovae (~10-70M_{sun}_) is required to account for the abundance patterns of the lighter elements up to the Fe-peak. The trend of the heavy elements suggests the involvement of compact binary merger events and fast-rotating (up to 300km/s) intermediate-mass to massive metal-poor stars (~25-120M_{sun}_) that are the sources of rapid and slow processes, respectively.

Additionally, asymptotic giant branch stars contribute to a wide dispersion of [Ba/Mg] and [Ba/Eu]. The absence of an -knee in our data indicates that type Ia supernovae did not contribute in the very metal-poor region ([Fe/H]<=-2.0). However, they might have started to pollute the interstellar medium at [Fe/H]>-2.0, given the relatively low [Co/Fe] in this metallicity region.

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