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Formation and evolution of stars in galactic bulges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Alvio Renzini
Alvio Renzini*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Astronomia, CP 596 I-40100 Bologna, Italy

Abstract

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A fair fraction of stars in the Galactic Bulge (a possibly in bulges in general) appears to be more metal rich than the sun. Some of the current limitations in quantitatively modelling such super metal rich (SMR) stars are briefly recalled, including the question of the helium enrichment, of the metallicity dependence of mass loss, and of the metal opacity. Recent color-magnitude diagrams for stars in the Galactic Bulge are show that the bulk of Bulge stars must be very old, although current data do not allow to determine the age with sufficient accuracy to establish the relative age of the Halo and of the Bulge. The question of the nature of the most luminous (AGB) stars in bulges and in M32 is then addressed in some detail, discussing a series of methodological aspects which would need careful consideration before using bright AGB stars as age indicators. It is concluded that — for the time being — none of the claims for the presence of an intermediate age component in the Galactic Bulge, in M32, and in the bulge of M31 is completely exempt from ambiguities, and ways for elimitating such ambiguities are suggested. Finally, from the evidence that bulges are dominated by a very old stellar population it is concluded that star formation in bulges probably started and was essentially completed before the completion of star formation in the halo: bulges are likely to on average older than halos.

Type
Invited Reviews
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 153: Galactic Bulges , 1993 , pp. 151 - 168
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1993 

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