Observations and atmospheric parameters of super-metal-rich candidates

The spectroscopic properties of a sample of 92 Population I bright stars (V < 8) with literature values of [Fe/H] <greater than or equal to> +0.1 are reviewed in order to study the metallicity scale at supersolar regimes. For 73 of these candidate super-metal-rich (SMR) stars we identified the photospheric fiducial parameters (T-eff, log g, [M/H]) from among published parameter sets via a comparison of new observations in the wavelength range 5034-5398 Angstrom with synthetic spectra derived from the 1997 database of Chavez et al. As a main issue in our analysis, we find that a "genuine" SMR stellar component in the Galactic disk exists with more than one-fourth of the stars in our sample fulfilling the criterion [Fe/H] greater than or equal to 0.2 dex, and three of them as rich as [Fe/H] > +0.4 dex.