The reddening of Polaris

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Dec 1978

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Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Publications, vol. 90, Dec. 1978-Jan. 1979, p. 739-741. Research supported by the Universit

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Cepheid Variables, Colorimetry, Interstellar Extinction, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Ubv Spectra, Calibrating, Iterative Solution, Ultraviolet Photometry

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The B-V color excess of Polaris is obtained by using uvby-beta photometry of 11 field stars within 0.75 deg of arc of Polaris and dereddening the field stars with the various color calibrations of the Stromgren system. An apparent distance of 109 pc is estimated for Polaris, and a color excess of E(B-V) equals 0.02 + or - 0.02 is found. This result is taken as supporting the claims that Polaris is unreddened or at worst very slightly reddened and therefore lies on the red edge of the Cepheid instability strip, as is expected for a small-amplitude Cepheid.

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