Bibcode
                                    
                            Lucchini, Scott; D'Onghia, Elena; Aguerri, J. Alfonso L.
    Referencia bibliográfica
                                    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Fecha de publicación:
    
                        6
            
                        2024
            
  Número de citas
                                    13
                            Número de citas referidas
                                    10
                            Descripción
                                    The distribution of moving groups in the solar neighbourhood has been used to constrain dynamical properties of the Milky Way for decades. The kinematic bimodality between the main mode (Hyades, Pleiades, Coma Berenices, and Sirius) and Hercules can be explained by two different bar models - via the outer Lindblad resonance of a bar with a high pattern speed (~55 km s-1 kpc-1), or via the corotation resonance of a bar with a low pattern speed (~40 km s-1 kpc-1). Recent works directly studying the kinematics of bar stars and gas flows near the centre of the Galaxy have converged on the low pattern speed model. In this paper, we independently confirm this result by using Gaia DR3 to directly study the variation of Hercules across Galactic azimuth. We find that Hercules increases in Vϕ and becomes stronger as we move towards the minor axis of the bar, and decreases in Vϕ and becomes weaker as we move towards the major axis of the bar. This is in direct agreement with theoretical predictions of a low pattern speed bar model in which Hercules is formed by the corotation resonance with stars orbiting the bar's L4/L5 Lagrange points.
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