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Caption: Figure 14.
Comparison of ﹩{A}_{{K}_{S}}/E(H-{K}_{S})﹩ from our work to the difference from our extinction values with O. A. Gonzalez et al. (2018), F. Surot et al. (2020), and M. Zhang & J. Kainulainen (2022). Each point is colored by vertical distance from the Galactic center in degrees. The top row shows ﹩{\rm{\Delta }}{A}_{{K}_{S}}﹩ from the luminosity function fit–derived extinction, while the bottom panel used S. Wang & X. Chen (2019) to convert color excess into extinction. The red square in the top left corner shows the median uncertainty on ﹩{A}_{{K}_{S}}/E(H-{K}_{S})﹩ and ﹩{A}_{{K}_{S}}﹩ from both methods. The median uncertainty in ﹩{A}_{{K}_{S}}﹩ does not account for contributions from the literature being compared against, but does account for the uncertainty in the S. Wang & X. Chen (2019) extinction law.
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