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Caption: Figure 5.
Fit results for two sample fields of standard, ﹩{2}^{{\prime} }\times {2}^{{\prime} }﹩ size. We stress that we do not bin the data in our analysis and that binning is solely for visualization. Panel (a) is a high-latitude field that effectively characterizes the Red Clump and background giant stars. Panel (b) is a low-latitude field that suffers from crowding and completeness issues. The exponential shape of the background giant branch stars is missing, resulting in B pushing against the prior lower limit to account for the lack of stars. This field is an example where we only report a lower limit on the extinction. Corner plots of the MCMC sampling are provided in the right panels, with blue lines indicating values from the maximum likelihood estimation.
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