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A large and pristine sample of standard candles across the Milky Way: ~100,000 red clump stars with 3% contamination

Yuan-Sen Ting, Keith Hawkins, Hans-Walter Rix

Core helium-burning red clump (RC) stars are excellent standard candles in the Milky Way. These stars may have more precise distance estimates from spectrophotometry than from Gaia…