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First identification and absolute magnitudes of the red clump stars in the Solar neighbourhood for WISE

Bilir, S.; Ak, T.; Karaali, S. +4 more

We present the first determination of absolute magnitudes for the red clump (RC) stars with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). We used recently reduced parallaxes taken from the Hipparcos catalogue and identified 3889 RC stars with the WISE photometry in the Solar neighbourhood. Mode values estimated from the distributions of absolute…