Based on data obtained with the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope, Paranal, Chile, program 070.A-9007(A), and on data obtained at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, operated by the CNRS of France, CNRC in Canada and the University of Hawaii.

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http://galics.iap.fr

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...Robin et al. (2003)

The Model of stellar population synthesis of the Galaxy developed by Robin et al. (2003) produces a reliable catalog of stars with appropriate number counts and magnitudes in the visible and near-infrared spectral ranges in the Johnson-Cousins and Koornneef systems, respectively.

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... independent

For example, imagine that one galaxy is removed from the sample: this galaxy contributes pairs at many different separations, thus affecting virtually all bins in the correlation function.

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... 2)

Note that if the number of bins we want to fit, i.e. the size of the matrix, were greater or equal to the number of realizations then, even if the matrix remains symmetric, the vectors would not be independent and the matrix C could not be inverted.

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