Characterisation of the Gaia Red Clump

L. Ruiz-Dern; C. Babusiaux; F. Arenou; C. Turon

doi:10.1051/eas/1567084

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Volume 67-68 (2014)

EAS Publications Series, 67-68 (2014) 395-396

Abstract

Issue		EAS Publications Series Volume 67-68, 2014 The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia: GREAT Science from the Gaia Data Releases


Page(s)		395 - 396
Section		Poster Presentations
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/1567084
Published online		17 July 2015

The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia: GREAT Science from the Gaia Data Releases
N.A. Walton, F. Figueras, L. Balaguer-Núñez and C. Soubiran (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 67–68 (2014) 395-396

Characterisation of the Gaia Red Clump

L. Ruiz-Dern, C. Babusiaux, F. Arenou and C. Turon

Observatoire de Paris, GEPI, CNRS UMR 8111, Université Paris Diderot, 92190 Meudon, France

Abstract

Red Clump (RC) stars are known to be good distance indicators. However the accuracy on these calculations strongly depends on the knowledge of their basic properties: a complete calibration is required.