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Detailed near-IR stellar abundances of red giants in the Inner Bulge and Galactic Center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2018

N. Ryde Open the ORCID record for N. Ryde [Opens in a new window] ,
R. M. Rich ,
B. Thorsbro Open the ORCID record for B. Thorsbro [Opens in a new window] ,
M. Schultheis ,
T. K. Fritz  and
L. Origlia
N. Ryde
Affiliation:
Lund Observatory, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Box 43, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden email: ryde@astro.lu.se
R. M. Rich
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, 430 Portola Plaza, Box 951547, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547, USA email: rmr@astro.ucla.edu
B. Thorsbro
Affiliation:
Lund Observatory, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Box 43, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden email: ryde@astro.lu.se
M. Schultheis
Affiliation:
Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS UMR 7293, BP4229, Laboratoire Lagrange, F-06304 Nice Cedex 4, France email: mathias.schultheis@oca.eu
T. K. Fritz
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, 3530 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA email: tkf4w@virginia.edu
L. Origlia
Affiliation:
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Via Gobetti 93/3, I-40129 Bologna, Italy email: livia.origlia@oabo.inaf.it
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Abstract

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Owing to their extreme crowding and high and variable extinction, stars in the Galactic Bulge, within ±2° of the Galactic plane, and especially those in the Nuclear Star Cluster, have only rarely been targeted for an analyses of their detailed abundances. There is also some disagreement about the high end of the abundance scale for these stars. It is now possible to obtain high dispersion, high S/N spectra in the infrared K band (~2.0 − 2.4 µm) for these giants; we report our progress at Keck and VLT in using these spectra to infer the composition of this stellar population.

Keywords

stars: abundancesstars: atmospheresstars: late-typeGalaxy: bulgeGalaxy: centerinfrared: stars
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 13 , Symposium S334: Rediscovering our Galaxy , July 2017 , pp. 82 - 85
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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