Cepheids are essential to calibrate the distances in the Universe. However, these stars exhibit an infrared excess which could originate in their circumstellar envelope, and thus lead to photometric biases in the calculation of distances. However, the nature and origin of these envelopes, as well as the physical mechanisms responsible for the...
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November 20, 2020 (v1)PublicationUploaded on: December 4, 2022
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October 13, 2019 (v1)Conference paper
Cepheids are the keystone of the extragalactic distance ladder because their pulsation periods correlate directly with their luminosity, through the Period-Luminosity (PL) relation (Leavitt & Pickering 1912). The discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe (Riess et al. 1998; 2011 Nobel prize) is largely based on the Cepheid PL...
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November 18, 2021 (v1)Journal article
Context. As primary anchors of the distance scale, Cepheid stars play a crucial role in our understanding of the distance scale of the Universe because of their period-luminosity relation. Determining precise and consistent parameters (radius, temperature, color excess, and projection factor) of Cepheid pulsating stars is therefore very...
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November 2020 (v1)Journal article
Aims. Classical Cepheids provide the foundation for the empirical extragalactic distance ladder. Milky Way Cepheids are the only stars in this class accessible to trigonometric parallax measurements. However, the parallaxes of Cepheids from the second Gaia data release (GDR2) are affected by systematics because of the absence of chromaticity...
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July 8, 2020 (v1)Publication
Classical Cepheids provide the foundation for the empirical extragalactic distance ladder. Milky Way Cepheids are the only stars in this class accessible to trigonometric parallax measurements. However, the parallaxes of Cepheids from the second Gaia data release (GDR2) are affected by systematics because of the absence of chromaticity...
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January 8, 2020 (v1)Publication
Classical Cepheids (CCs) are at the heart of the empirical extragalactic distance ladder. Milky Way CCs are the only stars of this class accessible to trigonometric parallax measurements. Until recently, the most accurate trigonometric parallaxes of Milky Way CCs were the HST/FGS measurements collected by Benedict et al. (2002, 2007)....
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July 8, 2020 (v1)Publication
Classical Cepheids provide the foundation for the empirical extragalactic distance ladder. Milky Way Cepheids are the only stars in this class accessible to trigonometric parallax measurements. However, the parallaxes of Cepheids from the second Gaia data release (GDR2) are affected by systematics because of the absence of chromaticity...
Uploaded on: December 4, 2022