Open clusters trace a wavy reddening plane offset 15.7 pc below the Sun, whose absorbing layer has a mean thickness of about 201 pc and a cluster scale height of 87 pc.
The Sun's displacement from the galactic plane from spectroscopic parallaxes of 2400 OB stars
1 Pith paper cite this work, alongside 1 external citations. Polarity classification is still indexing.
1
Pith paper citing it
1
external citations · Pith
abstract
The Sun's vertical displacement from the galactic plane is determined model-independently from 3457 spectroscopic-parallax distance estimates for 2397 OB stars within 1200 pc of the Sun. The result, 19.5 +/- 2.2 pc, agrees well with other recent determinations. The distribution of stellar z-values with galactic longitude shows a slight sinusoidal dependence with an amplitude of about 26 pc.
fields
astro-ph.GA 1years
2025 1verdicts
CONDITIONAL 1representative citing papers
citing papers explorer
-
Mapping the reddening plane in the Galactic disk through interstellar extinction of open clusters
Open clusters trace a wavy reddening plane offset 15.7 pc below the Sun, whose absorbing layer has a mean thickness of about 201 pc and a cluster scale height of 87 pc.