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AN ORBIT FIT FOR THE GRILLMAIR DIONATOS COLD STELLAR STREAM

AN ORBIT FIT FOR THE GRILLMAIR DIONATOS COLD STELLAR STREAM

We use velocity and metallicity information from Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration stellar spectroscopy to fit an orbit to the narrow 63° stellar stream of Grillmair and Dionatos. The stars in the stream have a retrograde orbit with eccentricity e = 0.33 (perigalacticon …