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Stellar Parallax

Stellar Parallax is the apparent angular displacement of a nearby star against the background of distant stars, observed from two different positions in Earth's orbit around the Sun, used as a foundational method in astrometry for directly measuring astronomical distances.

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Estimating Distances from Parallaxes. V. Geometric and Photogeometric Distances to 1.47 Billion Stars in Gaia Early Data Release 3

The Astronomical Journal · 2021 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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Estimating Distance from Parallaxes. IV. Distances to 1.33 Billion Stars in Gaia Data Release 2

The Astronomical Journal · 2018 · 1.8K citations · Full text

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The Geneva-Copenhagen survey of the Solar neighbourhood

B. Nordström, M. Mayor, J. Andersen et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2004 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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Calculating galactic space velocities and their uncertainties, with an application to the Ursa Major group

David R. Soderblom · The Astronomical Journal · 1987 · 931 citations

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A super-Earth transiting a nearby low-mass star

David Charbonneau, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, Jonathan Irwin et al. · Nature · 2009 · 808 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. MJ
    M. J. Reid

    Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, United States

    27 publications · 3.5K citations

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  2. KM
    K. M. Menten

    Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany

    24 publications · 3.4K citations

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  3. LE
    L. Eyer

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    23 publications · 2.6K citations

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  4. AB
    A. Brunthaler

    Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany

    22 publications · 3.2K citations

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  5. GM
    G. M. Seabroke

    University College London, United Kingdom

    21 publications · 2.9K citations

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Institutions

708

  1. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    48 h-index

    165 publications

    25.1K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    45 h-index

    413 publications

    72.7K citations

  3. Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

    Bonn, Germany

    38 h-index

    125 publications

    17.3K citations

  4. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    33 h-index

    103 publications

    7.9K citations

  5. Space Telescope Science Institute

    Baltimore, United States

    31 h-index

    60 publications

    9K citations

  6. Georgia State University

    Atlanta, United States

    30 h-index

    148 publications

    14.5K citations

  7. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    30 h-index

    105 publications

    23.7K citations

  8. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

    Heidelberg, Germany

    29 h-index

    93 publications

    28.9K citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 181 publications · 15.3K citations

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  2. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    145 publications · 15.7K citations

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  3. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 123 publications · 13.3K citations

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  4. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    108 publications · 5.4K citations

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  5. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

    PASP · 29 publications · 1.1K citations

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