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A Study of the Physical Properties and Star Formation Activity of a Large Sample of Molecular Clouds. I. Distances

  • Authors: Juan Mei, Min Fang, Miaomiao Zhang, Qing-Zeng Yan, Lixia Yuan, Xuepeng Chen, Zhiwei Chen, Yang Su, Shiyu Zhang, Zhibo Jiang, Ji Yang

Juan Mei et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 .

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Caption: Figure 9.

Comparison of molecular cloud distances derived using three independent methods in this work: the statistical method based on extinction–distance distribution differences (DKStest), the morphological-matching method (DKmeans), and correlation analysis of distance-sliced dust maps (DCorrelation). The top and bottom rows show pairwise comparisons and their corresponding difference plots, respectively: (a), (d) DKStest versus DKmeans; (b), (e) DCorrelation versus DKStest; and (c), (f) DCorrelation versus DKmeans. In all panels, molecular clouds with distances available from three methods are highlighted in yellow. The dashed lines indicate the one-to-one relation (top row) and the zero-difference line (bottom row).

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