Nearby Low-Mass Hypervelocity Stars
  Hypervelocity stars are those that have speeds exceeding the escape speed and
are hence unbound from the Milky Way. We investigate a sample of low-mass
hypervelocity candidates obtained using data from the high-precision SDSS
Stripe 82 catalogue, which we have combined with spectroscopy from the 200-inch
Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory. We find four good candidates, but
without metallicities it is difficult to pin-down their distances and therefore
total velocities. Our best candidate has a significant likelihood that it is
escaping the Milky Way for a wide-range of metallicities.
