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Paper on the orbit of the Ophiuchus stream
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Adrian's comments #2

Open bsesar opened 9 years ago

bsesar commented 9 years ago

Also, I was reading your Ophiuchus paper and noticed the bottom of page 10, you cite Sanders & Binney (2013) for noting the velocity dispersion scales with the cube root of the dynamical mass. This is actually a well known result that goes back at least to some of Kathryn's papers from the 90's. I think a more relevant citation may be: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ApJ...512L.109J

Note that we also show this from running N-body simulations over a range of masses in our 2014 paper: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...794....4P

jobovy commented 9 years ago

Yes, this is a well-known result, but sometimes referees want a reference. I think we cited Sanders & Binney because that was what I cited in my stream paper. We could also add Johnston, K. V. 1998, ApJ, 495, 297.