Assessment of the RUWE criterion. Top: distribution of the RUWE of the sources in the DEATHSTAR sample for the ‘good’ (blue) and ‘bad’ (red) derived Gaia DR3 distances. Middle: RUWE of the sources in the DEATHSTAR sample as a function of G magnitude, where the blue open circles and the red full circles represent distances with fractional error within and above 25%, respectively. Bottom: RUWE of the sources in the DEATHSTAR sample as a function of colour. The symbols are the same as above.