Howes, L. M.L. M.HowesAsplund, M.M.AsplundCasey, A. R.A. R.CaseyPancino, ElenaElenaPancino2020-09-172020-09-172014-12-01https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13025/3834Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 445, Issue 4, p.4241-4246We present the first results of the EMBLA survey (Extremely Metal-poor BuLge stars with AAOmega), aimed at finding metal-poor stars in the Milky Way bulge, where the oldest stars should now preferentially reside. EMBLA utilizes SkyMapper photometry to pre-select metal-poor candidates, which are subsequently confirmed using AAOmega spectroscopy. We describe the discovery and analysis of four bulge giants with -2.72 <= [Fe/H] <= -2.48, the lowest metallicity bulge stars studied with high-resolution spectroscopy to date. Using FLAMES/UVES spectra through the Gaia-ESO Survey we have derived abundances of twelve elements. Given the uncertainties, we find a chemical similarity between these bulge stars and halo stars of the same metallicity, although the abundance scatter may be larger, with some of the stars showing unusual [alpha/Fe] ratios.stars abundancesstars Population IIGalaxy bulgeGalaxy evolution10.1093/mnras/stu1991http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.445.4241H2014MNRAS.445.4241H