{"paper":{"title":"Mapping the Milky Way in 5-D with 170 Million Stars","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.SR"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","authors_text":"Aaron Dotter, Alyssa A. Goodman, Ana Bonaca, Andrew K. Saydjari, Angus Beane, Benjamin D. Johnson, Catherine Zucker, Charlie Conroy, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Edward F. Schlafly, Gregory M. Green, Gwendolyn Eadie, Hans-Walter Rix, Harshil M. Kamdar, Ioana A. Zelko, Jiwon Jesse Han, Joshua S. Speagle, Phillip A. Cargile, Rohan Naidu, Yuan-Sen Ting","submitted_at":"2025-03-04T02:26:33Z","abstract_excerpt":"We present \"augustus\", a catalog of distance, extinction, and stellar parameter estimates to 170 million stars from $14\\,{\\rm mag} < r < 20\\,{\\rm mag}$ and with $|b| > 10^\\circ$ drawing on a combination of optical to near-IR photometry from Pan-STARRS, 2MASS, UKIDSS, and unWISE along with parallax measurements from \\textit{Gaia} DR2 and 3-D dust extinction maps. After applying quality cuts, we find 125 million objects have \"high-quality\" posteriors with statistical distance uncertainties of $\\lesssim 10\\%$ for objects with well-constrained stellar types. This is a substantial improvement over "},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2503.02200","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2503.02200/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}