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Radial Migration in Spiral Galaxies

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The redistribution of stars in galactic disks is an important aspect of disk galaxy evolution. Stars that efficiently migrate in such a way that does not also appreciably heat their orbits can drastically affect the stellar populations observed today and therefore influence constraints derived from such observations. Unfortunately, while the theoretical understanding of the migration process is becoming increasingly robust, there are currently few specific observable predictions. As a result, we do not yet have a clear handle on whether the process has been important for the Milky Way in the past or how to constrain it. I discuss some of the expected qualitative outcomes of migration as well as some current controversies.

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RR is funded in part by a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant.

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  1. Institute for Computational Science, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057, Zürich, Switzerland

    Rok Roškar

  2. Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Central Lancashire, PR1 2HE, Preston, UK

    Victor P. Debattista

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  1. Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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  2. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

    Bruce Elmegreen

  3. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    David Block

  4. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Matthew Woolway

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Roškar, R., Debattista, V. (2015). Radial Migration in Spiral Galaxies. In: Freeman, K., Elmegreen, B., Block, D., Woolway, M. (eds) Lessons from the Local Group. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10614-4_31

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