Estimating Distances from Parallaxes
Estimating Distances from Parallaxes
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Estimating Distances from Parallaxes
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University of Chicago Press
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2015-10, Vol.127 (956), p.994-1009
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English
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Astrometric surveys such as Gaia and LSST will measure parallaxes for hundreds of millions of stars. Yet they will not measure a single distance. Rather, a distance must be estimated from a parallax. In this didactic article, I show that doing this is not trivial once the fractional parallax error is larger than about 20%, which will be the case fo...
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Estimating Distances from Parallaxes
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TN_cdi_iop_journals_10_1086_683116
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_iop_journals_10_1086_683116
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0004-6280
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1538-3873
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10.1086/683116
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