The correlation of [α/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] observed from the Galactic stars has been studied for a long time as an indicator for tracking the chemical evolution of the Milky Way and estimating the age of its structures. Most of the α-elements are generate...
The correlation of [α/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] observed from the Galactic stars has been studied for a long time as an indicator for tracking the chemical evolution of the Milky Way and estimating the age of its structures. Most of the α-elements are generated from Type II supernovae, which is the end of massive stars over 8M◉, and considerable amounts of Fe are generated from Type Ia supernovae, caused by influx of the mass of companion star to white dwarfs. Thus, comparing the incidence of these two supernovae over time, we can investigate the formation of the Galactic structures from the correlation of [α/Fe] vs. [Fe/H]. Commonly, the halo was inferred to be a metal-poor and α-rich population that had experienced explosive Type II supernovae earlier. The galactic bulge, formed at the same period with halo, had undergone not only Type II supernovae, but also extreme chemical evolution due to the high density environment which consists of stars and gases. As a result, it was interpreted to be a metal-rich and α-rich population. The disk, which is composed of relatively young stars, has a lower incidence of Type II supernovae than the bulge and halo, and it has also the cumulative effects of Type Ia supernovae. Hence, the Milky Way disk was considered a metal-rich and α-poor population. Over the last decade, it has been reported that the solar-neighboring disk stars drawn on the [α/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] plane consist of two distinct stellar populations. The low-α sequence, which is distributed in the wide [Fe/H] range and has a similar chemical composition with the sun, and the high-α sequence, which has relatively high [α/Fe] abundance, are considered the thin disk and the thick disk respectively due to their different kinematic characteristics. Moreover, the “high-O stars” recently discovered in the Galactic bulge (Zasowski et al. 2019) imply that the α-bimodality phenomenon is also exist in the bulge such as the disk. There is some doubt that these “high-O stars”, which consist of metal-rich and O-rich population, are just artifacts caused by spectral fitting error. According to the globular cluster origin bulge scenario, however, chemical patterns of the “high-O stars” could be originated from the remnants of metal-rich globular clusters that have merged and disrupted in the bulge. This paper studies the chemical patterns of the “high-O stars” and their spatial distribution. In order to carry out further research regarding the “high-O stars”, high-resolution spectroscopy is needed for the bulge field.