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The Galactic Bulge Exploration. III. Calcium Triplet Metallicities for RR Lyrae Stars
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WoS WOS:001302617100001
Scopus SCOPUS_ID:85202939829
DOI 10.3847/1538-3881/AD6262
Año 2024
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Instituciones Chile

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Internacional

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Abstract



RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) are excellent tracers of stellar populations for old, metal-poor components in the the Milky Way and the Local Group. Their luminosities have a metallicity dependence, but determining spectroscopic [Fe/H] metallicities for RRLs, especially at distances outside the solar neighborhood, is challenging. Using 40 RRLs with metallicities derived from both Fe(ii) and Fe(i) abundances, we verify the calibration between the [Fe/H] of RRLs from the calcium triplet. Our calibration is applied to all RRLs with Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) spectra in Gaia DR3 and to 80 stars in the inner Galaxy from the BRAVA-RR survey. The coadded Gaia RVS RRL spectra provide RRL metallicities with an uncertainty of 0.25 dex, which is a factor of two improvement over the Gaia photometric RRL metallicities. Within our Galactic bulge RRL sample, we find a dominant fraction with low energies without a prominent rotating component. Due to the large fraction of such stars, we interpret these stars as belonging to the in situ metal-poor Galactic bulge component, although we cannot rule out that a fraction of these belong to an ancient accretion event such as Kraken/Heracles.

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Astronomical Journal 0004-6256

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Ord. Autor Género Institución - País
1 Kunder, Andrea Mujer St Martins Univ - Estados Unidos
Saint Martin's University - Estados Unidos
2 Prudil, Z. - European Southern Observ - Alemania
Observatorio Europeo Austral - Alemania
3 Campos, Carlos - St Martins Univ - Estados Unidos
Saint Martin's University - Estados Unidos
4 Reggiani, Henrique M. Hombre NSFs NOIRLab - Chile
Gemini ObservatorySouthern Operations Center - Chile
5 Nataf, David M. Hombre Johns Hopkins Univ - Estados Unidos
Johns Hopkins University - Estados Unidos
6 Hughes, Joanne - Seattle Univ - Estados Unidos
Seattle University - Estados Unidos
7 Covey, Kevin R. - WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIV - Estados Unidos
Western Washington University - Estados Unidos
8 Devine, Kathryn Mujer Coll Idaho - Estados Unidos
Albertson College of Idaho - Estados Unidos

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National Science Foundation
Heising-Simons Foundation
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy
M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust's
Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics (MIAPbP)

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A.M.K. acknowledges support from grant AST-2009836 from the National Science Foundation. A.M.K., C.S., K.R.C., J.H., and K.D. acknowledge the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust's support through its Research Across Institutions for Scientific Empowerment (RAISE) program. This work was made possible through the Preparing for Astrophysics with LSST Program, supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation and managed by Las Cumbres Observatory. This research was supported by the Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics (MIAPbP), which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC-2094 - 390783311.

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