The Distance to the Pleiades from HST/FGS Measurements

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May 2004

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American Astronomical Society Meeting 204, #45.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.735

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We have used FGS1r on HST to measure the trigonometric parallaxes of three cool dwarfs in the Pleiades open cluster. We have obtained spectra of the reference stars used in order to place these parallaxes on an absolute basis. Our net result is a parallax for the Pleiades of 7.43±0.17 milliarcsec, corresponding to a distance of 135±3 pc, in excellent agreement with traditional estimates of the Pleiades distance from main sequence fitting. Our trigonometric determination also agrees with the recent dynamical determination of Pan et al. (2004, Nature, 427, 326). Thus two different techniques independently show that the Hipparcos determination for the Pleiades is in error.
Support for this work was provided through grant GO-08335 from the Space Telescope Science Institute, operated for NASA by AURA.

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