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Classical Cepheids and Galactic Structure
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
In this review I consider recent results on the space distribution of classical Cepheids, first dealing with their Z-distribution normal to the galactic plane, and second considering their X,Y components in the plane. In doing so, use is made of a new database of 505 stars known to be or likely to be classical Cepheids which has recently been compiled by Fernie et al. (1995) and which is available electronically on the World Wide Web at the URL http://ddo.astro.utoronto.ca/cepheids.html, and by anonymous ftp at perseus.astro.utoronto.ca (128.100.77.18) in the directory pub/cepheids.
Following the discussion of space distribution, a review of recent work on Cepheid kinematics and the resulting determination of the distance to the galactic centre will be given.
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- Part 1. The Scientific Programme
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 155: Astrophysical Applications of Stellar Pulsation , 1995 , pp. 155 - 164
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1995