GSED: The Galactic Stellar Extinction Database

arXiv:2606.31374 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-06-30 · Read on arXiv

Baisong Zhang, Bingqiu Chen, Dongwei Fan, Haibo Yuan, Pinjian Chen, Helong Guo, Lin Zhang, Baokun Sun, Xingzhu Zou, Lunwei Zhang, Yanan Cao, Longfei Ding

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-06-30

Comments: to be submitted

Project page: https://nadc.china-vo.org/data/gsed

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Galactic Stellar Extinction Database — 23× in this paper
• Metallicity — 12× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 9× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Systematic Bias — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
• Interstellar extinction towards the inner Galactic Bulge

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