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We report chemical abundances of Na, Al, Zr, La, Nd, and Eu for 39 red giant branch (RGB) stars and 23 potential inner disk red clump stars located in Plaut-s low extinction window. We also measure lithium for a super Li-rich RGB star. The…

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Sulfur is important: the site of its formation is uncertain, and at very low metallicity the trend of [S/Fe] against [Fe/H] is controversial. Below [Fe/H]=-2.0, [S/Fe] remains constant or it decreases with [Fe/H], depending on the author…

We report on the chemical abundances derived from high-dispersion spectra of 14 red giant stars in the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal (Sgr dSph) galaxy. The stars span a wide range of metallicities, -1.6 < [Fe/H] < -0.1 dex, and exhibit very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tammy A. Smecker-Hane , Andrew McWilliam

We explore the elemental abundance features of metal-rich disk stars, highlighting the comparisons made with those of the recently revealed Galactic bulge stars. A similarity between two of the comparisons leads to a new theoretical picture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takuji Tsujimoto

We highlight some results from our detailed abundance analysis study of 703 kinematically selected F and G dwarf stars in the solar neighbourhood. The analysis is based on spectra of high-resolution (R=45000 to 110000) and high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 T. Bensby , S. Feltzing

Aims. The aim of this work is the study of abundances of the heavy elements Ba, La, Ce, Nd, and Eu in 56 bulge giants (red giant branch and red clump) with metallicities ranging from -1.3 dex to 0.5 dex. Methods. We obtained high-resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 M. Van der Swaelmen , B. Barbuy , V. Hill , M. Zoccali , D. Minniti , S. Ortolani , A. Gomez

Oxygen and zinc in the Galactic bulge are key elements for the understanding of the bulge chemical evolution. Oxygen-to-iron abundance ratios provide a most robust indicator of the star formation rate and chemical evolution of the bulge.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 C. R. da Silveira , B. Barbuy , A. C. S. Friaça , V. Hill , M. Zoccali , M. Rafelski , O. A. Gonzalez , D. Minniti , A. Renzini , S. Ortolani

In previous works, we computed abundances for the red giant in nearly four dozen S-type symbiotic systems (SySt). The abundances provide information about metallicity, evolutionary status, and possible memberships in Galactic stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-20 Cezary Gałan , Joanna Mikołajewska , Kenneth H. Hinkle , Richard R. Joyce

... We confirm the well-established differences for [$\alpha$/Fe] at a given metallicity between the local thin and thick disks. For all the elements investigated, we find no chemical distinction between the bulge and the local thick disk,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Alves-Brito , J. Melendez , M. Asplund , I. Ramirez , D. Yong

Theories of thick disk formation can be differentiated by measurements of stellar elemental abundances. We have undertaken a study of metal-poor stars selected from the RAVE spectroscopic survey of bright stars to establish whether or not…

We report detailed chemical abundance analysis of 27 RGB stars towards the Galactic bulge in Baade's Window for elements produced by massive stars: O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca and Ti. All of these elements are overabundant in the bulge relative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jon. P. Fulbright , Andrew McWilliam , R. Michael Rich

We study a sample of 16 microlensed Galactic bulge main sequence turnoff region stars for which high dispersion spectra have been obtained with detailed abundance analyses. We demonstrate that there is a very strong and highly statistically…

The failure of S and O abundances in most planetary nebulae to display the same strong direct correlation that is observed in extragalactic H II regions represents one of the most perplexing problems in the area of PN abundances today.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. B. C. Henry , J. N. Skinner , K. B. Kwitter , M. B. Milingo

A catalog compiling the parameters of 346 open clusters, including their metallicities, positions, ages, and velocities has been composed. The elements of the Galactic orbits for 272 of the clusters have been calculated. Spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 V. A. Marsakov , M. L. Gozha , V. V. Koval' , L. V. Shpigel'

We determine the iron distribution function (IDF) for bulge field stars, in three different fields along the Galactic minor axis and at latitudes b=-4 deg, b=-6 deg, and b=-12 deg. A fourth field including NGC6553 is also included in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-18 M. Zoccali , V. Hill , A. Lecureur , B. Barbuy , A. Renzini , D. Minniti , A. Gomez , S. Ortolani

We derive the star formation histories of eight dwarf spheroidal (dSph) Milky Way satellite galaxies from their alpha element abundance patterns. Nearly 3000 stars from our previously published catalog (Paper II) comprise our data set. The…

This review recaps significant results as they apply to non-dwarf galaxies, including the Milky Way, spiral disks and bulges, and elliptical and lenticular galaxies. Conclusions that span the galaxy types treated here are as follows. All…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. B. C. Henry , Guy Worthey

We performed a uniform and detailed analysis of 1112 high-resolution spectra of FGK dwarfs obtained with the HARPS spectrograph at the ESO 3.6 m telescope (La Silla, Chile). Most stars have effective temperatures 4700 K < Teff < 6300 K and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-11-22 V. Zh. Adibekyan , N. C. Santos , S. G. Sousa , G. Israelian

We present a chemical abundance distribution study in 14 $\alpha$, odd-Z, even-Z, light, and Fe-peak elements of approximately 3200 intermediate metallicity giant stars from the APOGEE survey. The main aim of our analysis is to explore the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-02 Keith Hawkins , Paula Jofre , Thomas Masseron , Gerry Gilmore

We report on abundances of O, Mg, Si, Ca and Fe for 10 giants in the Sgr dwarf spheroidal derived from high resolution spectra obtained with UVES at the 8.2m Kueyen-VLT telescope. The iron abundance spans the range -0.8 <[Fe/H] < 0.0 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Bonifacio , L. Sbordone , G. Marconi , L. Pasquini , V. Hill