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### Distance determination for RAVE stars using stellar models III: The nature of the RAVE survey and Milky Way chemistry

Abstract:

We apply the method of Burnett and Binney (2010) for the determination of stellar distances and parameters to the internal catalogue of the Radial Velocity Experiment (Steinmetz et al. 2006). Subsamples of stars that either have Hipparcos parallaxes or belong to well-studied clusters, inspire confidence in the formal errors. Distances to dwarfs cooler than ~6000 K appear to be unbiased, but those to hotter dwarfs tend to be too small by ~10% of the formal errors. Distances to giants tend to b...

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Publisher copy:
10.1051/0004-6361/201116715

### Authors

Burnett, B More by this author
Williams, M More by this author
Zwitter, T More by this author
Journal:
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Volume:
532
Publication date:
2011-07-06
DOI:
EISSN:
1432-0746
ISSN:
0004-6361
URN:
uuid:ff498707-407d-43f7-b93e-c5c774ac2f08
Source identifiers:
167444
Local pid:
pubs:167444
Language:
English
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