A Recent Lindblad Resonance in the Solar Neighbourhood

Abstract

Stars in the solar neighbourhood do not have a smooth distribution of velocities. Instead, the distribution of velocity components in the Galactic plane manifests a great deal of kinematic substructure. Here I present an analysis in action-angle variables of the Geneva-Copenhagen survey of ~14,000 nearby F & G dwarfs with distances and full space motions. I show that stars in the so-called "Hyades stream" have both angle and action variables characteristic of their having been scattered at an inner Lindblad resonance of a rotating disturbance potential. This discovery seems to favour spiral patterns as recurrent, short-lived instabilities.

12 pages, 10 figures to appear in MNRAS. Minor revisions from original version

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