@article {632942,
	title = {They Might Be Giants: An Efficient Color-based Selection of Red Giant Stars},
	journal = {The Astrophysical Journal Letters},
	volume = {861},
	year = {2018},
	month = {July 1, 2018},
	abstract = {We present a color-based method for identifying red giants based on thePan-STARRS grz and WISE W1 and W2 photometry. We utilize a subsample ofbright stars with precise parallaxes from Gaia{\textquoteright}s second datarelease (DR2) to verify that the color-based selection reliablyseparates dwarfs from giants. The selection is conservative in the sense},
	keywords = {Galaxy: halo;  Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics},
	isbn = {0004-637X},
	url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...861L..16C},
	author = {Conroy, Charlie and Bonaca, Ana and Naidu, Rohan P. and Daniel J. Eisenstein and Johnson, Benjamin D. and Dotter, Aaron and Finkbeiner, Douglas P.}
}
