Distances to Cepheid Open Clusters Via Optical and K-Band Imaging

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2000-02-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0002521v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 345 (2003) 269

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06939.x

We investigate the reddening and Main Sequence fitted distances to eleven young, Galactic open clusters that contain Cepheids. Each cluster contains or is associated with at least one Cepheid variable star. Reddening to the clusters is estimated using the U-B:B-V colours of the OB stars and the distance modulus to the cluster is estimated via B-V:V and V-K:V colour-magnitude diagrams. By main-sequence fitting we proceed to calibrate the Cepheid P-L relation and find M_V=-2.81xlogP-1.33 +/-0.32 and M_K=-3.44xlogP-2.20 +/-0.29 and a distance modulus to the LMC of 18.55+/-0.32 in the V-band and 18.47+/-0.29 in the K-band giving an overall distance modulus to the LMC of 18.51+/-0.3. In the case of two important clusters we find that the U-B:B-V diagram in these clusters is not well fitted by the standard Main Sequence line. In one case, NGC7790, we find that the F stars show a UV excess which if caused by metallicity would imply Fe/H ~ -1.5; this is anomalously low compared to what is expected for young open clusters. In a second case, NGC6664, the U-B:B-V diagram shows too red U-B colours for the F stars which in this case would imply a higher than solar metallicity. If these effects are due to metallicity then it would imply that the Cepheid PL(V) and PL(K) zeropoints depend on metallicity according to delta(M)/delta(Fe/H) ~0.66 in the sense that lower metallicity Cepheids are intrinsically fainter. Medium-high resolution spectroscopy for the main-sequence F stars in these two clusters is needed to determine if metallicity really is the cause or whether some other explanation applies.

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