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2 BAYESIAN MOVING GROUP MEMBERSHIP 0.030 CALCULATIONS This Study 0.025 BANYAN II Our method is based on the same Bayesian principle as used in 0.020 This Study - BANYAN II BANYAN II (Gagné et al. 2014), and one of our main purposes of 0.015 this paper is to demonstrate the careful treatments of model param- 0.010 Probability eters. Therefore, to minimize any possible confusion, we decide to 0.005 use the BANYAN II notation in describing various terms related to 0.000 the Bayesian MG membership probability calculation. Throughout 0 50 100 150 200 this paper, in developing, validating, and comparing our method Distance (pc) and result, we used BPMG as the main test case because this MG is 0.035 one of the youngest, nearest MGs with many discovered members 0.030 spread over a large area of the sky. For various purposes, different 0.025 lists of stars for BPMG were used (see Table 1). 0.020 0.015
Probability 0.010 2.1 Validation of our calculation: comparison against the 0.005 BANYAN II result 0.000 We developed a PYTHON script to calculate Bayesian MG mem- -1 ) bership probability. Bayesian probability (the posterior probabil- ity) is proportional to the product of the prior probability and the Figure 1. Prior probability distribution functions (PDFs) of RV and dis- likelihood, which are both derived from models for MGs and field tance for BPMG from BANYAN II (red) and those from this study (blue) stars. To validate our code, we compare our membership calcula- assuming identical model parameters. The differences of two prior PDFs tion results (the Bayesian probability) against those of BANYAN II are presented with green lines. using identical parameters. Prior probability distribution functions (PDFs) for observables such as distance, radial velocity (RV), mag- nitude of proper motion, and galactic latitude are reproduced, and two of these are compared in Fig. 1. Prior PDFs from BANYAN II and those from this study are similar but not exactly the same be- cause these prior PDFs are generated from random simulated stel- lar distributions. We also used the BANYAN II group size ratios between MGs and the field stars. The membership probability calculations from BANYAN II and those from our code are compared in Fig. 2 using a list of