2017-07-11

not ready for #GaiaSprint

Lauren Anderson (Flatiron) showed up at MPIA today to discuss #GaiaSprint projects and our next projects more generally. We discussed a possible project in which we try to use the TGAS data to infer the relationships between extinction and intrinsic color for red-giant stars, and then use those relationships in the billion-star catalog to predict parallaxes for DR2 (and also learn the dust map and the spatial distribution of stars in the Milky Way).

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