NLTE Analysis of Copper Abundances in the Galactic Bulge Stars
arXiv:1911.10795 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab1077
Abstract
Based on the medium-high resolution (R~ 20,000), modest signal-to-noise ratio (S/N > 70) FLAMES-GIRAFFE spectra, we investigated the copper abundances of 129 red giant branch stars in the Galactic bulge with [Fe/H] from -1.14 to 0.46 dex. The copper abundances are derived from both local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) and nonlocal thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) with the spectral synthesis method. We find that the NLTE effects for Cu I lines show a clear dependence on metallicity, and they gradually increase with decreasing [Fe/H] for our sample stars. Our results indicate that the NLTE effects of copper are important not only for metal-poor stars but also for supersolar metal-rich ones and the LTE results underestimate the Cu abundances. We note that the [Cu/Fe] trend of the bulge stars is similar to that of the Galactic disk stars spanning the metallicity range of -1.14 < [Fe/H] < 0.0 dex and the [Cu/Fe] ratios increase with increasing metallicity when [Fe/H] is from~-1.2 to~-0.5 dex, favoring a secondary (metallicity-dependent) production of Cu.
arXiv comment9 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables
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