Cepheid Parallaxes and the Hubble Constant

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2007-05-11

arxiv.org/abs/0705.1592v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:723-737,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 1 figure, on-line material from mwf@artemisia.ast.uct.ac.za. Accepted for MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11972.x

Revised Hipparcos parallaxes for classical Cepheids are analysed together with 10 HST-based parallaxes (Benedict et al.). In a reddening-free V,I relation we find that the coefficient of logP is the same within the uncertainties in our Galaxy as in the LMC, contrary to some previous suggestions. Cepheids in the inner region of NGC4258 with near solar metallicities (Macri et al.) confirm this result. We obtain a zero-point for the reddening-free relation and apply it to Cepheids in galaxies used by Sandage et al. to calibrate the absolute magnitudes of SNIa and to derive the Hubble constant. We revise their result from 62 to 70+/-5 km/s/Mpc. The Freedman et al. 2001 value is revised from 72 to 76+/-8 km/s/Mpc. These results are insensitive to Cepheid metallicity corrections. The Cepheids in the inner region of NGC4258 yield a modulus of 29.22+/-0.03(int) compared with a maser-based modulus of 29.29+/-0.15. Distance moduli for the LMC, uncorrected for any metallicity effects, are; 18.52+/-0.03 from a reddening-free relation in V,I; 18.47+/-0.03 from a period-luminosity relation at K; 18.45+/-0.04 from a period-luminosity-colour relation in J,K. Adopting a metallicity correction in V,I from Marci et al. leads to a true LMC modulus of 18.39+/-0.05.

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