Sunday, 11 October 2009

Is it possible to get the distance to a star in the IPHAS DR2 catalog?

Only by knowing what kind of a star it is, or by inferring that information from the available colours. From there you use a photometric or spectroscopic parallax calibration. ie. There is a relationship between the absolute magnitude and colours of a main sequence star. Of course there is no guarantee you are looking at a main sequence star.



You can get more idea by cross correlating with the 2MASS JHK catalogue, as the J-H vs H-K colours of giants are usually distinctive.



More specific help needs a more specific question.

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