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How far away and how old are these stars?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2018

Paul J. McMillan
Affiliation:
Lund Observatory, Lund University, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Box 43, SE-22100, Lund, Sweden email: paul@astro.lu.se
the RAVE Collaboration
Affiliation:
Lund Observatory, Lund University, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Box 43, SE-22100, Lund, Sweden email: paul@astro.lu.se
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Abstract

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RAVE is the spectroscopic survey with the largest overlap with TGAS (around 200000 stars). Since RAVE's fourth data release, it has contained distance estimates based on a Bayesian estimation scheme. Here we compare these estimates to TGAS's parallaxes, to determine the strengths and weaknesses of each. We also combine the two datasets together to find more precise distance estimates for all these stars.

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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