The Binary Catalog

The cloud distance catalog is available for download here:
The catalog has the following fields:
name
Name of the region of sky in which this line of sight was chosen
l
Galactic latitude (degrees)
b
Galactic longitude (degrees)
dist_lit
Previous literature distance estimate; see paper for sources
medebv
Median Planck E(B-V) toward stars used on this line of sight
m16
16th percentile of distance modulus
m50
50th percentile of distance modulus
m84
84th percentile of distance modulus
n16
16th percentile of normalization factor
n50
50th percentile of normalization factor
n84
84th percentile of normalization factor
f16
16th percentile of nearby reddening screen
f50
50th percentile of nearby reddening screen
f84
84th percentile of nearby reddening screen
fittype
whether a small (1) or large (2) beam was adopted for the fit
chain
the MCMC chain (n_sample x n_par, n_par = [distance modulus, normalization, nearby reddening])
lnprob
log likelihoods in the MCMC chain
nstar_tot
the number of stars used
The most reliable parameters are the cloud distances. A variety of systematics (e.g. R_V variation, incorrect reddening vectors, dust template errors) can influence the total reddenings we measure, and therefore the foreground reddening and normalization. However, the distances we obtain are remarkably robust to these effects. See the paper for details.