How Many Components? Quantifying the Complexity of the Metallicity Distribution in the Milky Way Bulge with APOGEE

A. Rojas-Arriagada, G. Zasowski, M. Schultheis +14

We use data of $\sim$13,000 stars from the SDSS/APOGEE survey to study the shape of the bulge MDF within the region $|\ell |\le 11^{\circ }$ and $|b|\le 13^{\circ }$, and spatially constr…