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Pulsating Stars and the Distance Scale - I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
A summary is given of recent measurements, by various methods, of the absolute magnitudes for RR Lyrae stars. Calibrations within our galaxy, using the Baade-Wesselink method and by Statistical Parallaxes, give a result that is some 0.2–0.3 mag fainter than is obtained by all other methods considered. The resolution of this conundrum will be likely in the near future when new and improved datasets become available.
- Type
- Part 1. The Scientific Programme
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 155: Astrophysical Applications of Stellar Pulsation , 1995 , pp. 198 - 206
- Copyright
- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1995