My writing today was in the introduction to the paper Lauren Anderson (Flatiron) and I are writing about the color-magnitude diagram and statistical shrinkage in the Gaia TGAS—2MASS overlap. My view is that the idea behind the project is the same as the fundamental idea behind the Gaia Mission: The astrometry data (the parallaxes) give distances to the nearby stars; these are used to calibrate spectrophotometric models, which deliver distances for the (far more numerous) distant stars. Our goal is to show that this can be done without any involvement of stellar physics or physical models of stellar structure, evolution, or photospheres.
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