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Astrostatistics for luminosity calibration in the Gaia era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2015

M. Palmer ,
X. Luri ,
F. Arenou  and
E. Masana
M. Palmer
Affiliation:
Dept. d'Astronomia i Meteorologia, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona (IEEC-UB), Martí Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
X. Luri
Affiliation:
Dept. d'Astronomia i Meteorologia, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona (IEEC-UB), Martí Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
F. Arenou
Affiliation:
GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92190 Meudon, France
E. Masana
Affiliation:
Dept. d'Astronomia i Meteorologia, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona (IEEC-UB), Martí Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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Abstract

With Gaia currently in nominal mission mode and sending data to earth, the challenge for the astronomical community is to prepare for the use of what will be at the time of release one of the largest and most complex astronomical catalogues ever produced. Use of parallax data is not straightforward due to the presence of many statistical biases and selection effects. We present an overview of a techniques for correct use of the Gaia parallax information, which relies on statistical modelling of the data in order to infer derived quantities such as distance and absolute magnitude in an unbiased way. The methods rely on a Bayesian methodology and have been applied to case studies on normal stars, variable stars, open clusters and the LMC.

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Research Article
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European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 68: The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia: GREAT Science from the Gaia Data Releases , 2014 , pp. 271 - 274
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© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2015

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