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A Large Catalog of Accurate Distances to Local Molecular Clouds: The Gaia DR2 Edition

  • Authors: Catherine Zucker, Joshua S. Speagle, Edward F. Schlafly, Gregory M. Green, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Alyssa A. Goodman, and João Alves

2019 The Astrophysical Journal 879 125.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 6.

Comparison of the distances obtained in Schlafly et al. (2014) (x-axis) vs. distances obtained post-Gaia in this work (y-axis), over the same set of sightlines summarized in Tables 2 and 3. We show the 1:1 line in black and the best-fit line to the distribution in blue (parameterized as y = 0.88(±0.02)x + 0.98(±0.11)). The uncertainties shown only include the statistical uncertainties, and not any systematic uncertainty, which we estimate to be ≈10% for Schlafly et al. (2014) and ≈5% for this work.

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