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Updated Bayestar description and fixed numbered list in maps listing.
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Expand Up @@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ The three maps provided by
`Planck Collaboration (2013) <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014A%26A...571A..11P>`_
are based on:

1. τ\ :sub:`353`\ : dust optical depth at 353 GHz.
2. ℛ: thermal dust radiance.
3. A recommended extragalactic reddening estimate, based on thermal dust
#. τ\ :sub:`353`\ : dust optical depth at 353 GHz.
#. ℛ: thermal dust radiance.
#. A recommended extragalactic reddening estimate, based on thermal dust
radiance, but with point sources removed.

* **Reference**: `Planck Collaboration (2013) <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014A%26A...571A..11P>`_
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of the sky north of a declination of -30°. The map is probabilistic. containing
samples of the reddening along each line of sight. The "Bayestar" dust map is
inferred from stellar photometry of 800 million stars observed by Pan-STARRS 1,
and 2MASS photometry for a quarter of the stars.
and 2MASS photometry for a quarter of the stars. The latest version of Bayestar
also makes use of *Gaia* DR2 parallaxes.

There are three versions of Bayestar, called *Bayestar19*, *Bayestar17* and
*Bayestar15* here. By default, :code:`dustmaps` will use the latest version,
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The units of reddening used by each map are slightly different:

* Bayestar19 reports reddening in an arbitrary unit that can be converted to
extinction in different bands using the coefficients given in Table 1 of
Green, Schlafly, Finkbeiner et al. (2019).
* Bayestar17 reports reddening in an arbitrary unit that can be converted to
extinction in different bands using the coefficients given in Table 1 of
`Green, Schlafly, Finkbeiner et al. (2018) <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018arXiv180103555G>`_.
* Bayestar15 reports reddening in the same units as those used by SFD. Therefore,
in order to convert Bayestar15 reddenings to extinction in different bands, one
should use the conversions provided in
`Table 6 of Schlafly & Finkbeiner (2011) <http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/737/2/103/article#apj398709t6>`_.
#. Bayestar19 reports reddening in an arbitrary unit that can be converted to
extinction in different bands using the coefficients given in Table 1 of
Green, Schlafly, Finkbeiner et al. (2019).
#. Bayestar17 reports reddening in an arbitrary unit that can be converted to
extinction in different bands using the coefficients given in Table 1 of
`Green, Schlafly, Finkbeiner et al. (2018) <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018arXiv180103555G>`_.
#. Bayestar15 reports reddening in the same units as those used by SFD. Therefore,
in order to convert Bayestar15 reddenings to extinction in different bands, one
should use the conversions provided in
`Table 6 of Schlafly & Finkbeiner (2011) <http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/737/2/103/article#apj398709t6>`_.

* **References**: Green, Schlafly, Finkbeiner et al. (2019),
`Green, Schlafly, Finkbeiner et al. (2018) <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018arXiv180103555G>`_,
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A three-dimensional map of dust extinction in the Galactic anticenter. The map
covers about 6000 deg\ :sup:`2`\ , from 140° < ℓ < 240° and -60° < b < 40°, and
is based on stellar photometry from the Xuyi Schmidt Telescope Photometric
Survey of the Galactic Anticentre (XSTPS-GAC), 2MASS and *WISE*. The map has an
Survey of the Galactic Anticentre (XSTPS-GAC), 6MASS and *WISE*. The map has an
angular resolution of 3 to 9 arcminutes, and reports *r*-band extinction, along
with Gaussian error estimates.

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