Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995apj...446...39v&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal v.446, p.39
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
35
Cosmology: Distance Scale, Galaxies: Distances And Redshifts, Galaxies: Local Group, Stars: Abundances, Stars: Variables: Cepheids
Scientific paper
Available evidence suggests that there is a small discrepancy between distances to Local Group dwarf galaxies determined from Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars. This difference might be due to a slight metallicity dependence of the period luminosity relation for classical Cepheids. Such a dependence would have to be in the sense that metal-poor Cepheids of a given period are slightly fainter than their metal-rich counterparts. If this hypothesis is correct then recent Hubble Space Telescope distances to IC 4182 (SN 1937C) and NGC 5253 (SN 1972E) may have been slightly overestimated, resulting in a small increase in the Hubble parameter H0. Alternatively, the adopted relation between the metallicity and luminosity of RR Lyrae variables might be in error. It is noted that the rather faint Mv(RR) values observed in giant galaxies appear to conflict with the brighter values predicted by horizontal branch models.
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