{"paper":{"title":"Precision distances to dwarf galaxies and globular clusters from Pan-STARRS1 3$\\pi$ RR Lyrae","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","authors_text":"Christopher Waters, Eugene Magnier, Hans-Walter Rix, Judith G. Cohen, Nigel Metcalfe, Nina Hernitschek, Richard Wainscoat, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, William Burgett","submitted_at":"2018-11-27T04:45:24Z","abstract_excerpt":"We present new spatial models and distance estimates for globular clusters (GC) and dwarf spheroidals (dSphs) orbiting our Galaxy based on RR Lyrae (RRab) stars in the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) 3$\\pi$ survey. Using the PS1 sample of RRab stars from Sesar et al. (2017) in 16 globular clusters and 5 dwarf galaxies, we fit structural models in $(l,b,D)$ space; for 13 globular clusters and 6 dwarf galaxies, we give only their mean heliocentric distance $D$. We verify the accuracy of the period-luminosity (PL) relations used in Sesar et al. (2017) to constrain the distance to those stars, and compare them "},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1811.10808","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"}