PIRSA:14040137

Is the Milky Way Ringing?

Widrow, L. (2014). Is the Milky Way Ringing?. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/14040137

Widrow, Lawrence. Is the Milky Way Ringing?. Perimeter Institute, Apr. 08, 2014, https://pirsa.org/14040137 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:14040137,
            doi = {10.48660/14040137},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/14040137},
            author = {Widrow, Lawrence},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Is the Milky Way Ringing?},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2014},
            month = {apr},
            note = {PIRSA:14040137 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Lawrence Widrow Queen's University

DOI 10.48660/14040137
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Recent observations from three different astronomical surveys have revealed evidence for asymmetries about the Galactic midplane in the kinematics of solar neighborhood stars. These asymmetries appear, in part, as compression-rarefaction modes in the bulk motions of stars perpendicular to the midplane. I will discuss the hypothesis that these motions were caused by the recent passage of a satellite galaxy or dark matter subhalo through the Galactic disk. In short, we may be witnessing the early stages of a disk-heating event during which the Galaxy's disk relaxes to a new state after interacting with substructure from its own halo.