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The characteristics of the stellar populations in the Galactic Bulge inform and constrain the Milky Way's formation and evolution. The metal-poor population is particularly important in light of cosmological simulations, which predict that…

The Bulge is the least understood major stellar population of the Milky Way. Most of what we know about the formation and evolution of the Bulge comes from bright giant stars. The underlying assumption that giants represent all the stars,…

We compute the chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge to explain the existence of two main stellar populations recently observed. After comparing model results and observational data we suggest that the old more metal poor stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 V. Grieco , F. Matteucci , A. Pipino , G. Cescutti

Adopting a single-zone framework, with accretion of primordial gas on a free-fall timescale, the chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge is calculated, assuming (i) a corresponding rapid timescale for star formation, and (ii) an initial…

In this work, we study the formation and chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge with particular focus on the abundance pattern ([Mg/Fe] vs. [Fe/H]), metallicity and age distribution functions. We consider detailed chemical evolution…

We compute the chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge in the context of an inside-out model for the formation of the Milky Way. The model contains updated stellar yields from massive stars. The main purpose of the paper is to compare the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Silvia K. Ballero , Francesca Matteucci , Livia Origlia , R. Michael Rich

Despite the huge amount of photometric and spectroscopic efforts targetting the Galactic bulge over the past few years, its age distribution remains controversial owing to both the complexity of determining the age of individual stars and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 Edouard J. Bernard , Mathias Schultheis , Paola Di Matteo , Vanessa Hill , Misha Haywood , Annalisa Calamida

Chemistry and kinematic studies can determine the origins of stellar population across the Milky Way. The metallicity distribution function of the bulge indicates that it comprises multiple populations, the more metal-poor end of which is…

The Galactic Bulge, as the center of the Galaxy, is the closest laboratory for studying galaxy formation and evolution. However, its study faces significant challenges due to heavy dust extinction. This paper is devoted to deriving the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-10 Jialu Nie , Martín López-Corredoira , Chao Liu , Hai-feng Wang , Iulia Simion

Until recently our knowledge of the Galactic Bulge stellar populations was based on the study of a few low extinction windows. Large photometric and spectroscopic surveys are now underway to map large areas of the bulge. They probe several…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-09 Carine Babusiaux

We investigate the evolution of star-forming gas-rich disks, using a 3D chemodynamical model including a dark halo, stars, and a two-phase interstellar medium with feedback processes from the stars. We show that galaxy evolution proceeds…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andreas Immeli , Markus Samland , Ortwin Gerhard , Pieter Westera

A three-dimensional hydrodynamical N-body model for the formation of the Galaxy is presented with special attention to the formation of the bulge component. Starting with cosmologically motivated initial conditions, we obtain a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Naohito Nakasato , Ken'ichi Nomoto

We present a detailed elemental abundance study of 90 F and G dwarf, turn-off and subgiant stars in the Galactic bulge. Based on high-resolution spectra acquired during gravitational microlensing events, stellar ages and abundances for 11…

The Galactic Bulge has long been assumed to be a largely old stellar population. However, some recent studies based on observations with the HST WF/PC-1 and WFPC2 of stars in the Galactic Bulge have concluded that the old population may not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sofia Feltzing , Gerard Gilmore

In some scenarios for the formation of the Milky Way bulge the stellar population at the edges of the boxy bulge may be younger than those on the minor axis, or close to the Galactic center. So far the only bulge region where deep…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Valenti , M. Zoccali , A. Renzini , T. M. Brown , O. Gonzalez , D. Minniti , Victor P. Debattista , L. Mayer

Photometry and long-slit spectroscopy are presented for 14 S0 and spiral galaxies of the Fornax, Eridanus and Pegasus cluster, and NGC 7582 group. The structural parameters of the galaxies are derived from the R-band images by performing a…

Due to its proximity, the stellar populations of the Galactic bulge (GB) can be resolved and can be studied in detail. This allows tracing the bulge metallicity distribution function (MDF) for different spatial regions within the bulge,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-08 Oscar Cavichia , Mercedes Mollá , Juanjo J. Bazán

Observations of the stellar content of the Milky Way's bulge helps to understand the stellar content and evolution of distant galaxies. In this brief overview I will first highlight some recent work directed towards measuring the history of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jay A. Frogel

The dominant stellar population of the central bulge of the Milky Way is old, with roughly solar metallicity. The age is very similar to that of the old metal rich bulge globular clusters and to 47 Tucanae, which has an age of 13 Gyr.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Michael Rich

We selected Bulge stars from APOGEE DR17 cross-matched with astrometric data from \textit{Gaia} DR3. Bulge stars were divided into sub-samples with line-of-sight velocity dispersion analyzed and the peaks of MDF were detected by both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-29 Haoyang Liu , Cuihua Du , Zhongcheng Li , Jian Zhang , Mingji Deng
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