Abstract We have investigated the results for Fe/H and distance for a group of 24 globular clusters in the Galactic bulge, employing recent calibrations of RR Lyrae light curves Fourier decompositions and period- absolute magnitude -metallicity (PMZ) calibrations in the I-band. We have limited our calculations to RR Lyrae stars that have been proven to be very likely cluster members. These results are compared with Fe/H and MV (distance) obtained from well-established Fourier calibrations in the V-band. These calibrations of the I-band were found to produce iron values that can differ from the UVES spectroscopic scale by -0.29 to +0.15 dex. The PMZ distances agree within 0.4 kpc with recent solid critical distance compilations. Adopting the newly derived distances, we conducted a spatial and orbital analysis of the bulge globular clusters in a non-axisymmetric Milky Way potential, and compared their orbital properties with earlier studies, finding broadly consistent trends with small systematic differences driven by the assumed distances and Galactic model. Clusters associated with the in situ bulge component display a narrow range low angular momentum and low orbital energies, consistent with formation in the early inner Milky Way.
Ferro et al. (Wed,) studied this question.