A change in a star's mean orbital radius through exchange of angular momentum, particularly at a corotation resonance with a rotating perturbation. For the harmonic in action-angle variables, the leading change of radial action vanishes even while azimuthal angular momentum changes. Migration can therefore rearrange a galactic disk with much less heating than exchange at a Lindblad resonance.
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