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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

The average bulge [Fe/H] and [Mg/H] are +0.06 and +0.17 dex, respectively, in Baade's Window, roughly 0.2 dex higher than the thin disk and ~0.7 dex higher than the local thick disk metallicity. This suggests a higher effective yield in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Andrew McWilliam

We present abundance results from our Keck/HIRES observations of giants in the Galactic Bulge. We confirm that the metallicity distribution of giants in the low-reddening bulge field Baade's Window can be well-fit by a closed-box enrichment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jon P. Fulbright , R. Michael Rich , Andrew McWilliam

We report on detailed abundances of giants in the Galactic bulge, measured with the HIRES echelle spectrograph on the 10-m Keck telescope. We also review other work on the bulge field population and globular clusters using Keck/HIRES. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. M. Rich , A. McWilliam

The central part of the Galaxy host a multitude of stellar populations, including the spheroidal bulge stars, stars moved to the bulge through secular evolution of the bar, inner halo, inner thick disk, inner thin disk, as well as debris…

We obtained FLAMES-GIRAFFE spectra (R=22,500) at the ESO Very Large Telescope for 650 bulge red giant branch (RGB) stars and performed spectral synthesis to measure Mg, Ca, Ti, and Si abundances. This sample is composed of 474 giant stars…

We present radial velocities and chemical abundances of O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu for a sample of 156 red giant branch stars in two Galactic bulge fields centered near (l,b)=(+5.25,-3.02) and (0,-12). The (+5.25,-3.02)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Christian I. Johnson , R. Michael Rich , Chiaki Kobayashi , Andrea Kunder , Andreas Koch

We seek to constrain the formation of the Galactic bulge by means of analysing the detailed chemical composition of a large sample of red clump stars in Baade's window. We measure [Fe/H] in a sample of 219 bulge red clump stars from R=20000…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 V. Hill , A. Lecureur , A. Gomez , M. Zoccali , M. Schultheis , C. Babusiaux , F. Royer , B. Barbuy , F. Arenou , D. Minniti , S. Ortolani

This paper investigates the peculiar behaviour of the light even (alpha-elements) and odd atomic number elements in red giants in the galactic bulge, both in terms of the chemical evolution of the bulge, and in terms of possible deep-mixing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Lecureur , V. Hill , M. Zoccali , B. Barbuy , A. Gomez , D. Minniti , S. Ortolani , A. Renzini

We present Fe, Si, and Ca abundances for 61 giants in Plaut's Window (l=-1,b=-8.5) and Fe abundances for an additional 31 giants in a second, nearby field (l=0,b=-8) derived from high resolution (R~25,000) spectra obtained with the Blanco…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Christian I. Johnson , R. Michael Rich , Jon P. Fulbright , Elena Valenti , Andrew McWilliam

We report the first abundance analysis of 14 M giant stars in the Galactic bulge, based on R=25,000 infrared spectroscopy (1.5-1.8um) using NIRSPEC at the Keck II telescope. Because some of the bulge M giants reach high luminosities and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Michael Rich , Livia Origlia

We present the first results of a new abundance survey of the Milky Way bulge based on Keck/HIRES spectra of 27 K-giants in the Baade's Window ($l = 1$, $b = -4$) field. The spectral data used in this study are of much higher resolution and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jon. P. Fulbright , Andrew McWilliam , R. Michael Rich

We present radial trends of metallicity ([Fe/H]) and abundance ratios ([X/Fe]) for several chemical elements -- including C, N, Na, and the so-called alpha-elements (O, Mg, Si, Ca, and Ti) -- in the bulge of M31, out to ~0.6kpc from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-20 F. La Barbera , A. Vazdekis , F. Matteucci , E. Spitoni , A. Pasquali , I. Martín-Navarro

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…

We take advantage of the Gaia-ESO Survey iDR4 bulge data to search for abundance anomalies that could shed light on the composite nature of the Milky Way bulge. The alpha-elements (Mg, Si, and whenever available, Ca) abundances, and their…

[ABRIDGED] Based on high-resolution (R~42000 to 48000) and high signal-to-noise (S/N~50 to 150) spectra obtained with UVES/VLT, we present detailed elemental abundances (O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr, Fe, Ni, Zn, Y, and Ba) and stellar ages…

We report abundance analysis for 30 M giant stars in two inner Galactic bulge fields at (l,b)=(0,-1.75) deg and at (l,b)=(1,-2.65) deg, based on R=25,000 infrared spectroscopy from 1.5-1.8um using NIRSPEC at the Keck II telescope. We find…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Michael Rich , Livia Origlia , Elena Valenti

We discuss oxygen and iron abundance patterns in K and M red-giant members of the Galactic bulge and in the young and massive M-type stars inhabiting the very center of the Milky Way. The abundance results from the different bulge studies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Cunha , V. Smith , K. Sellgren , R. Blum , S. Ramirez , D. Terndrup

The chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge is treated here in the context of an inside-out model for the Galaxy formation. We assume that this central region evolved even faster than the Galactic halo and test the effect of changing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Matteucci , D. Romano , P. Molaro

CONTEXT: [ABRIDGED]. For the Milky Way bulge, there are currently essentially no measurements of carbon in un-evolved stars, hampering our abilities to properly compare Galactic chemical evolution models to observational data for this still…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-01 T. Bensby , A. Gould , M. Asplund , S. Feltzing , J. Meléndez , J. A. Johnson , S. Lucatello , A. Udalski , J. C. Yee
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