On the Use of Trigonometric Parallaxes for the Calibration of Luminosity Systems: Theory by T. E. Lutz and D. H. Kelker 2026-10-20
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PASP 85, 573–578. Primary classical treatment of parallax-based luminosity calibration under a spatial-population model. Its assumptions do not justify a universal correction to every modern individual-star distance inference. Bibliographic details are also verified in the references of An eclipsing-binary distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud accurate to two per cent by G. Pietrzyński and others.
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