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The distance and reddening to IC 10 from preliminary JHK photometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Leonid N. Georgiev ,
Radostin Kurtev ,
Margarita Rosado  and
Jordanka H. Borissova
Leonid N. Georgiev
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomìa, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 70-264, 04510 México
Radostin Kurtev
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Sofia University, 5 James Bourchier str., BG-1126 Sofia, Bulgaria
Margarita Rosado
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomìa, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 70-264, 04510 México
Jordanka H. Borissova
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tsarigradsko chaussèe, BG-1784 Sofia, Bulgaria

Abstract

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By comparing the brightest red supergiants in IC 10 and IC 1613, we derive for IC 10 that EH-K = 0.24 ± 0.09mag (i.e., EB-v = 1.26 ± 0.19 mag) and a true distance modulus 24.0 ± 0.13 mag.

Type
Part 6. Starbursts in normal and active galaxies: their effects on the ISM and on chemical evolution
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 193: Wolf-Rayet Phenomena in Massive Stars and Starburst Galaxies , 1999 , pp. 762 - 763
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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