{"paper":{"title":"A large and pristine sample of standard candles across the Milky Way: ~100,000 red clump stars with 3% contamination","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.GA"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.SR","authors_text":"Hans-Walter Rix, Keith Hawkins, Yuan-Sen Ting","submitted_at":"2018-03-18T11:59:13Z","abstract_excerpt":"Core helium-burning red clump (RC) stars are excellent standard candles in the Milky Way. These stars may have more precise distance estimates from spectrophotometry than from Gaia parallaxes beyond 3 kpc. However, RC stars have $T_{\\rm eff}$ and log g very similar to some red giant branch (RGB) stars. Especially for low-resolution spectroscopic studies where $T_{\\rm eff}$, log g, and [Fe/H] can only be estimated with limited precision, separating RC stars from RGB through established method can incur ~20% contamination. Recently, Hawkins et al. (2018) demonstrated that the additional informat"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1803.06650","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"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"}