A Large Catalog of Accurate Distances to Local Molecular Clouds: The Gaia DR2 Edition

Understand

We present a uniform catalog of accurate distances to local molecular clouds informed by the Gaia DR2 data release.

• Our methodology builds on that of Schlafly et al.
• (2014).
• First, we infer the distance and extinction to stars along sightlines towards the clouds using optical and near-infrared photometry.