Table · dataset · 2019
Estimating Distance from Parallaxes.
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Estimating Distance from Parallaxes.
Description
IV. Distances to 1.33 Billion Stars in Gaia Data Release 2.
For the vast majority of stars in the second Gaia data release, reliable distances cannot be obtained by inverting the parallax. A correct inference procedure must instead be used to account for the nonlinearity of the transformation and the asymmetry of the resulting probability distribution. Here, we infer distances to essentially all 1.33 billion stars with parallaxes published in the second Gaia data release.
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This is done using a weak distance prior that varies smoothly as a function of Galactic longitude and latitude according to a Galaxy model. The irreducible uncertainty in the distance estimate is characterized by the lower and upper bounds of an asymmetric confidence interval. Although more precise distances can be estimated for a subset of the stars using additional data (such as photometry), our goal is to provide purely geometric distance estimates, independent of assumptions about the physical properties of, or interstellar extinction toward, individual stars.
We analyze the characteristics of the catalog and validate it using clusters. Changes: 2019-10-01 Added columns: ruwe, bprp0 Corrected: bug in arp50
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Where it is published
- DOI doi.org/10.17876/gaia/dr.2/51 ↗
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Catalogue records · 1
- OAI-PMH record gaia.aip.de/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai%3Agaia… ↗
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Topics
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- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Physics
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
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| Gaia@AIP | oai:gaia.aip.de:tables/gaiadr2_contrib.starhorse_v05 | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · gaia aip de | connector:gaia_aip_de@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · gaia aip de | connector:gaia_aip_de@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · gaia aip de | connector:gaia_aip_de@1.0.0 | |
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