Articulo
Calibrating the Cepheid period-luminosity relation from the infrared surface brightness technique. II. The effect of metallicity and the distance to the LMC
Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Autor
Storm, J.
Gieren, W.
Pietrzyński, G.
Fouqué, P.
Barnes, T. G.
Soszyński, I.
Nardetto, N.
Queloz, D.
Institución
Resumen
The extragalactic distance scale builds directly on the Cepheid Period-Luminosity (PL) relation as delineated by the sample of Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). However, the LMC is a dwarf irregular galaxy, quite different from the massive spi FONDAP FONDAP