Separating the conjoined red clump in the Galactic Bulge: Kinematics and Abundances

Roberto De Propris, R. Michael Rich, Andrea Kunder +8

We have used the AAOMEGA spectrograph to obtain R $\sim 1500$ spectra of 714 stars that are members of two red clumps in the Plaut Window Galactic bulge field $(l,b)=0^{\circ},-8^{…