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Jönsson, H.; Ryde, N.; Schultheis, M.; Zoccali, M.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 598, id.A101, 9 pp.
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2017
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Context. Determining elemental abundances of bulge stars can, via
chemical evolution modeling, help to understand the formation and
evolution of the bulge. Recently there have been claims both for and
against the bulge having a different [α/Fe] versus [Fe/H] trend as
compared to the local thick disk. This could possibly indicate a faster,
or at least different, formation timescale of the bulge as compared to
the local thick disk. Aims: We aim to determine the abundances of
oxygen, magnesium, calcium, and titanium in a sample of 46 bulge K
giants, 35 of which have been analyzed for oxygen and magnesium in
previous works, and compare this sample to homogeneously determined
elemental abundances of a local disk sample of 291 K giants.
Methods: We used spectral synthesis to determine both the stellar
parameters and elemental abundances of the bulge stars analyzed here. We
used the exact same method that we used to analyze the comparison sample
of 291 local K giants in Paper I of this series. Results:
Compared to the previous analysis of the 35 stars in our sample, we find
lower [Mg/Fe] for [Fe/H] >-0.5, and therefore contradict the
conclusion about a declining [O/Mg] for increasing [Fe/H]. We instead
see a constant [O/Mg] over all the observed [Fe/H] in the bulge.
Furthermore, we find no evidence for a different behavior of the
alpha-iron trends in the bulge as compared to the local thick disk from
our two samples.
Based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory,
Chile (ESO programs 71.B-0617(A), 073.B-0074(A), and 085.B-0552(A)).