Near-Infrared Observations of RR Lyrae Variables in $ω$ Centauri

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2005-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510174v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the Workshop "Stellar Pulsation and Evolution", 2005. Monte Porzio Catone,

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We present Near-Infrared (NIR) $J$ and $K_s$-band observations for 181 RR Lyrae stars in the Galactic Globular Cluster $\omega$ Cen. The comparison between predicted and empirical slopes of NIR Period-Luminosity (PL) relations indicates a very good agreement. Cluster distance estimates based on NIR PL relations agree quite well with recent determinations based on different standard candles, giving a true mean distance modulus $\mu = 13.71\pm0.05$, and $d=5.52\pm0.13$ kpc.

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