DIRECT Distances to Nearby Galaxies Using Detached Eclipsing Binaries and Cepheids. Results for the Inner part of M33.

Details DIRECT Distances to Nearby Galaxies Using Detached Eclipsing Binaries and Cepheids. Results for the Inner part of M33. DIRECT Distances to Nearby Galaxies Using Detached Eclipsing Binaries and Cepheids. Results for the Inner part of M33.

Dec 1999

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American Astronomical Society, 195th AAS Meeting, #11.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 31, p.1390

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The DIRECT project has obtained a total of 170 nights on the FLWO 1.2-meter telescope and 35 nights on the MDM 1.3-meter telescope from 1996 to 1999 to search for detached eclipsing binaries and Cepheids in the M31 and M33 galaxies. This is the first step in an ongoing program to improve the direct distance estimate to these two important galaxies in the cosmological distance ladder. Detached eclipsing binaries provide us with the potential to determine these distances with an accuracy better than 5% and possibly to better than 1%. The massive photometry provides us with good light curves for known and new Cepheid variables. These are essential to derive direct Baade-Wesselink distances to the galaxies. With both Cepheids and eclipsing binaries, the distance estimates will be free of any intermediate steps. We present the variables found in the inner part of M33, the resulting Cepheid P-L relations, and a new distance determination to this galaxy. Future work on outer fields of this galaxy will be combined with the present results to arrive at a new determination of the effects of metallicity in the Cepheid P-L relation.

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