Estimated distances to 1.33 billion stars in Gaia DR2
Short Name:
gdr2dist scs
Date:
04 Apr 2022 15:48:41
Publisher:
The GAVO DC team
Description:
This catalogue provides distances estimates (and uncertainties therein)
for 1.33 billion stars over the whole sky brighter than about G=20.7.
These have been estimated using the parallaxes (and their uncertainties)
from Gaia DR2. A Bayesian procedure was used involving a prior
with a single parameter L(l,b), which varies smoothly with Galactic
longitude and latitude according to a Galaxy model. The posterior is
summarized with a point estimate (usually the mode) and a confidence
interval (usually the 68% highest density interval). The estimation
procedure is described in detail in the `accompanying paper`_,
which also analyses the catalogue content.
.. _accompanying paper: http://www.mpia.de/homes/calj/gdr2_distances.html
This service returns the most important Gaia DR3 gaia_source columns
together with robust geometric and photogeometric distances for the
~1.47 billion objects in Bailer-Jones et al's distance catalogue.
The release consists of event lists and instrument response functions
for observations of various well-known gamma-ray sources (the Crab
nebula, PKS 2155-304, MSH 15-52, RX J1713.7-3946) as well as
observations of empty fields for background modeling.
The LOFAR Two Meter Sky Survey LoTSS DR2
(:bibcode:`2022A&A...659A...1S`) obtained radio data from 27% of the
northern sky between 120 and 168 MHz in the year 2014 through 2020. This
service publishes polarization spectra of extragalactic radio sources
(radio galaxies and blazars) and the rotation measures derived from them.
We also give redshifts for all sources. The data has a spatial resolution
of 20 arcsec.
The LOFAR Two Meter Sky Survey LoTSS DR2
(:bibcode:`2022A&A...659A...1S`) obtained radio data from 27% of the
northern sky between 120 and 168 MHz in the year 2014 through 2020. This
service publishes polarization spectra of extragalactic radio sources
(radio galaxies and blazars) and the rotation measures derived from them.
We also give redshifts for all sources. The data has a spatial resolution
of 20 arcsec.
The MAGIC project observes the VHE sky (GeV~TeV) through Cherenkov
radiation events. The project is operating since 2004 and with the
support from the Spain-VO team they provide data access through a
VO-SSAP and web services. This service re-publishes the data with
homogeneized in flux units (given here in 'erg/(s.cm2)'). Photon
energy values in are transfomred to frequencies.
The MAGIC project observes the VHE sky (GeV~TeV) through Cherenkov
radiation events. The project is operating since 2004 and with the
support from the Spain-VO team they provide data access through a
VO-SSAP and web services. Our goal here is to provide the same kind of
service with the difference that the data is transformed and
homogeneized in its flux units, to values in 'erg/(s.cm2)', and photon
energy values in equivalent 'Hz' frequency values.