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Mapping the Milky Way in 5D with 170 Million Stars

  • Authors: Joshua S. Speagle, 佳士 沈, Catherine Zucker, Ana Bonaca, Phillip A. Cargile, Benjamin D. Johnson, Angus Beane, Charlie Conroy, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Gregory M. Green, Harshil M. Kamdar, Rohan Naidu, Hans-Walter Rix, Edward F. Schlafly, Aaron Dotter, Gwendolyn Eadie, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Alyssa A. Goodman, Jiwon Jesse Han, Andrew K. Saydjari, Yuan-Sen Ting, 源森 丁, Ioana A. Zelko

Joshua S. Speagle et al 2024 The Astrophysical Journal 970 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

Estimates of the statistical distance uncertainties (i.e., excluding systematic uncertainties) as a function of Pan-STARRS r-band magnitude (r PS;  left), parallax S/N (middle), and median estimated distance (right). These are estimated using the distribution of random distance realizations around the median distance estimates, with results from half the width of the 68% credible interval (“1σ average;” solid red) and a quarter the width of the 95% credible (“2σ average;” dashed blue). We find typical uncertainties of 8%–10% at the faintest magnitudes and lowest parallax S/Ns, with uncertainties derived from the 95% confidence intervals (CIs) larger than those derived from the 68% CIs. These differences can become particularly pronounced at larger distances (right panel) due to possible degeneracies between nearby dwarf (main-sequence) and faraway giant (post-main-sequence) stellar evolutionary solutions.

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