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DIRECT Distances to Local Group Galaxies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
The two nearby galaxies, M31 and M33, are stepping stones for most of our current efforts to understand the evolving universe at large scales. We are undertaking a long term project, called DIRECT, to improve the direct distance estimate to M31 and M33. The massive photometry we have obtained as part of our project over the past 3 years provides us with very good light curves for known and new Cepheid variables, a large number of eclipsing binaries and other variable stars.
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- Part 3. Cepheids, RR Lyrae Stars, Distance Scales
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