Toward a renewed Galactic Cepheid distance scale from Gaia and optical interferometry [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017 Through an innovative combination of multiple observing techniques and modeling, we are assembling a comprehensive understanding of the pulsation and close environment of Cepheids.
Kervella Pierre +11 more
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A comprehensive study of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy. Period distribution, blending and distance determination [PDF]
, 2007 Extragalactic Cepheids are the basic rungs of the cosmic distance scale. They are excellent standard candles, although their luminosities and corresponding distance estimates can be affected by the particular properties of the host galaxy. Therefore, the
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How rotation affects masses and ages of classical Cepheids
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017 Classical Cepheid variable stars are both sensitive astrophysical laboratories and accurate cosmic distance tracers. We have recently investigated how the evolutionary effects of rotation impact the properties of these important stars and here provide an
Anderson Richard I. +4 more
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Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Parallaxes of Galactic Cepheid Variable Stars: Period-Luminosity Relations [PDF]
, 2006 (abridged) We present new absolute trigonometric parallaxes and relative proper motions for nine Galactic Cepheid variable stars: l Car, zeta Gem, beta Dor, W Sgr, X Sgr, Y Sgr, FF Aql, T Vul, and RT Aur.
Barnes, Thomas G. +8 more
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Cepheid variables in the LMC cluster NGC 1866. I. New BVRI CCD photometry [PDF]
, 2000 We report BV(RI)c CCD photometric data for a group of seven Cepheid variables in the young, rich cluster NGC 1866 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The photometry was obtained as part of a program to determine accurate distances to these Cepheids by means ...
Bell R. A. +18 more
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An overtone Cepheid variable in an LMC eclipsing binary [PDF]
, 2004 D. Lepischak, D. L. Welch
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A three-dimensional map of the Milky Way using classical Cepheid variable stars [PDF]
Science, 2018 Cepheids help to map the Galaxy Cepheid variable stars pulsate, which allows their distances to be determined from the periodic variations in brightness. Skowron et al. constructed a catalog of thousands of Cepheids covering a large fraction of the Milky
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A long-period Cepheid variable in the starburst cluster VdBH222 [PDF]
, 2015 Context. Galactic starburst clusters play a twin role in astrophysics, serving as laboratories for the study of stellar physics and also delineating the structure and recent star formation history of the Milky Way. Aims.
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Metallicities of Classical Cepheids in the Inner Galactic Disk
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Metallicity gradients refer to the sloped radial profiles of the metallicities of gas and stars and are commonly seen in disk galaxies. A well-defined metallicity gradient of the Galactic disk is observed particularly well with classical Cepheids, which ...
Noriyuki Matsunaga +16 more
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M33 Cepheids from CFHT/MegaCam Survey
The Astronomical Journal, 2022 In this paper we analyze Sloan g, r, i archival imaging data of M33 taken by Hartman et al. using MegaCam at the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope. To determine the distance to the M33 galaxy, we performed several analytical steps to identify its Cepheid ...
Samuel Adair, Chien-Hsiu Lee
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