{"paper":{"title":"Determining the Absolute Magnitudes of Galactic-Bulge Red Clump Giants in the Z and Y Filters of the Vista Sky Surveys and the IRAC Filters of the Spitzer Sky Surveys","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"A.A.Lutovinov, D.I. Karasev","submitted_at":"2018-04-12T18:58:53Z","abstract_excerpt":"The properties of red clump giants in the central regions of the Galactic bulge are investigated in the photometric $Z$ and $Y$ bands of the infrared VVV (VISTA/ESO) survey and the [3.6],[4.5], [5.8] and [8.0] bands of the GLIMPSE (Spitzer/IRAC) Galactic plane survey. The absolute magnitudes for objects of this class have been determined in these bands for the first time: $M_{Z}= -0.20\\pm0.04$ and $M_{Y}=-0.470\\pm0.045$, $M_{[3.6]}= -1.70\\pm0.03$, $M_{[4.5]}= -1.60\\pm0.03$, $M_{[5.8]}= -1.67\\pm0.03$ and $M_{[8.0]}= -1.70\\pm0.03$. A comparison of the measured magnitudes with the predictions of "},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1804.04692","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":""},"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"}