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Angular momentum per unit of stellar mass for different streams. Left panel: different angular momentum patterns recovered by BEACON in the 14 streams of the sample of 953 stars from Leo I, coloured according to their [Fe/H]. Middle panel: angular momentum for a simulation of the dissolving star cluster model with 16 star clusters dissolved. Circles have radius from 0 pc2 s−1 to 3 × 103 pc2 s−1 with step of 0.5 × 103 pc2 s−1 for each dotted concentric circle. Right panel: angular momentum of the streams recovered by BEACON in a tidal stirring simulation. There is no net rotation signal in the Leo I observational data and in the dissolving star cluster model, while in the tidal stirring model the angular momentum vectors point in roughly the same direction, suggesting a remnant rotation signal.

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