Abstract
Recent observational studies of the Galactic bulge by APOGEE have revealed that about 1 per cent of the bulge stars have rather high nitrogen abundances ([N/Fe] > 0.5). We here numerically investigate in what physical conditions these N-rich stars (NRSs) can be formed in spherical and discy stellar systems with stellar masses of 10(7)-10(9)M(circle dot) that are the bulge's building blocks. The principal results are as follows. A large fraction (>0.5) of new stars formed from interstellar medium polluted (ISM) by ejecta of asymptotic giant branch stars can have [N/Fe]> 0.5within stellar systems, if the gas mass fraction of ISM(f(g)) is low(
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 4007-4023 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Volume | 490 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2019 |