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Appendix A is only available in electronic form at http://www.edpsciences.org

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Through this paper we assume that the distance of individual stars is not an observable; if, instead, the distance of each star can be estimated, then in principle one can also directly measure $p_{A_{\it V}}(A_{\it V} \vert D)$.

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