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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 7.

Pixelated distance map for the Cepheus molecular cloud. The left panel shows the Planck E(BV) reddening map in the region around Cepheus. The right shows the set of healpix pixels associated with the cloud (see Table 1 and Section 4.2) colored by their median distance. We find Cepheus clearly hosts two separate components: a “near” component (purple pixels) and a “far” component (yellow or green pixels). An interactive version of this figure that includes each pixel’s line-of-sight extinction profile is available at https://faun.rc.fas.harvard.edu/czucker/Paper_Figures/Cepheus.html in the online version of the published article. Similar figures for every cloud in Table 1 are accessible via Figure 8. A machine-readable table of the per-pixel results for every pixel shown above in Cepheus is available on the Dataverse (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/cloud_distances) (doi:10.7910/DVN/74Y5KU). Similar tables are available for every cloud in Table 1.

An interactive version of this figure is available in the online journal.

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