Dynamical heating across the Milky Way disc Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Mackereth J.T.
  2. Bovy J.
  3. Leung H.W.
  4. Schiavon R.P.
  5. Trick W.H.,Chaplin W.J.
  6. Cunha K.
  7. Feuillet D.K.
  8. Majewski S.R.
  9. Martig M.
  10. Miglio A.,Nidever D.
  11. Pinsonneault M.H.
  12. Silva Aguirre V.
  13. Sobeck J.
  14. Tayar J.,Zasowski G.
  15. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The kinematics of the Milky Way disc as a function of age are well measured at the solar radius, but have not been studied over a wider range of Galactocentric radii. Here, we measure the kinematics of mono-age, mono-[Fe/H] populations in the low and high [{alpha}/Fe] discs between 4~<R~<13kpc and |z|~<2kpc using 65719 stars in common between APOGEE DR14 and Gaia DR2 for which we estimate ages using a Bayesian neural network model trained on asteroseismic ages. We determine the vertical and radial velocity dispersions, finding that the low and high [{alpha}/Fe] discs display markedly different age-velocity dispersion relations (AVRs) and shapes {sigma}_z_/{sigma}_R_. The high [{alpha}/Fe] disc has roughly flat AVRs and constant {sigma}_z_/{sigma}_R_=0.64+/-0.04, whereas the low [{alpha}/Fe] disc has large variations in this ratio that positively correlate with the mean orbital radius of the population at fixed age. The high [{alpha}/Fe] disc component's flat AVRs and constant {sigma}_z_/{sigma}_R_ clearly indicate an entirely different heating history. Outer disc populations also have flatter radial AVRs than those in the inner disc, likely due to the waning effect of spiral arms. Our detailed measurements of AVRs and {sigma}_z_/{sigma}_R_ across the disc indicate that low [{alpha}/Fe], inner disc (R~<10kpc) stellar populations are likely dynamically heated by both giant molecular clouds and spiral arms, while the observed trends for outer disc populations require a significant contribution from another heating mechanism such as satellite perturbations. We also find that outer disc populations have slightly positive mean vertical and radial velocities likely because they are part of the warped disc.

Keywords
  1. giant-stars
  2. stellar-ages
  3. milky-way-galaxy
  4. astronomical-models
  5. visible-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019MNRAS.489..176M
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IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/489/176
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74890176

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2023-02-09T13:14:10Z
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