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Comparison of the Galactic Cepheid Open Cluster and Surface Brightness Distance Scales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Wolfgang P. Gieren
Affiliation:
Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 104, Santiago 22, Chile
Pascal Fouqué
Affiliation:
DESPA Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, F-92195 Meudon Cedex France and European Southern Observatory, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile

Abstract

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We compare the best determined Baade-Wesselink (BW) period-luminosity (PL) relation for 100 galactic Cepheids to the PL relation derived for 32 open cluster and association Cepheids by the ZAMS-fitting method. Eighteen stars in common lead to the conclusion that BW and ZAMS-fitting distances can agree to better than 0.1 mag, after proper allowance of systematic effects in both methods.

Type
Part 2. Poster Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1995

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