Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-01-05
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 349 (2004) 1130
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, 4 tables, 1 figure. MNRAS in-press, correct typesetting error in Table 3
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07595.x
In this paper, we derive the period-luminosity (PL) relation for Galactic Cepheids with recent independent distance measurements from open cluster, Barnes-Evans surface brightness, interferometry and HST astrometry techniques. Our PL relation confirms the results of Tammann et al. (2003), which showed that the Galactic Cepheids follow a different PL relation to their LMC counterparts. Our results also show that the slope of the Galactic PL relation is inconsistent with the LMC slope with more than 95% confidence level. We apply this Galactic PL relation to find the distance to NGC 4258. Our result of mu_o=29.49\pm0.06(random error)mag. agrees at the ~1.4sigma level with the geometrical distance of \mu_{geo}=29.28\pm0.15mag. from water maser measurements..
Kanbur Shashi
Ngeow Chow Choong
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