Observational Constraints of Radial Migration in the Galactic Disk Driven by the Slowing Bar

HanYuan Zhang, Vasily Belokurov, N. Wyn Evans, Jason L. Sanders, Yuxi(Lucy) Lu, Chengye Cao, GyuChul Myeong, Adam M. Dillamore, Sarah G. Kane and Zhao-Yu Li
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Radial migration is an important dynamical effect that has reshaped the Galactic disk, but its origin has yet to be elucidated. In this work, we present evidence that resonant dragging by the corotation of a decelerating bar could be the main driver of radial migration in the Milky Way disk. Using a test particle simulation, we demonstrate this scenario explains the two distinct age–metallicity sequences observed in the solar vicinity: the plateauing upper sequence is interpreted as stars dragged outward by the expanding corotation of the decelerating bar and the steeper lower sequence as stars formed locally around the solar circle. The upper migrated sequence dominates at guiding radii around the current corotation radius of the bar, R ∼ 7 kpc, but rapidly dies away beyond this where the mechanism cannot operate. This behavior naturally explains the radial dependence of the [α/Fe]-bimodality, in particular the truncation of the high-[α/Fe] disk beyond the solar circle. Under our proposed radial migration scenario, we constrain the Milky Way bar’s pattern speed evolution using the age–metallicity distribution of stars currently trapped at corotation. We find the bar likely formed with an initial pattern speed of 60−100 km s−1 kpc−1 and began decelerating 6−8 Gyr ago at a rate of (where the quoted ranges include systematic uncertainties).
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