Very accurate Distances and Radii of Open Cluster Cepheids from a Near-Infrared Surface Brightness Technique

Details Very accurate Distances and Radii of Open Cluster Cepheids from a Near-Infrared Surface Brightness Technique Very accurate Distances and Radii of Open Cluster Cepheids from a Near-Infrared Surface Brightness Technique

1997-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9707328v1

Astrophys.J. 488 (1997) 74

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

LaTeX, 11 Figures, 5 Tables, to be published in The Astrophysical Journal, Oct. 10, 1997 issue

Scientific paper

10.1086/304681

We have obtained the radii and distances of 16 galactic Cepheids supposed to be members in open clusters or associations using the new optical and near-infrared calibrations of the surface brightness (Barnes-Evans) method given by Fouque & Gieren (1997). We discuss in detail possible systematic errors in our infrared solutions and conclude that the typical total uncertainty of the infrared distance and radius of a Cepheid is about 3 percent in both infrared solutions, provided that the data are of excellent quality and that the amplitude of the color curve used in the solution is larger than ~0.3 mag. We compare the adopted infrared distances of the Cepheid variables to the ZAMS-fitting distances of their supposed host clusters and associations and find an unweighted mean value of the distance ratio of 1.02 +- 0.04. A detailed discussion of the individual Cepheids shows that the uncertainty of the ZAMS-fitting distances varies considerably from cluster to cluster. We find clear evidence that four Cepheids are not cluster members (SZ Tau, T Mon, U Car and SV Vul) while we confirm cluster membership for V Cen and BB Sgr for which the former evidence for cluster membership was only weak. After rejection of non-members, we find a weighted mean distance ratio of 0.969 +- 0.014, with a standard deviation of 0.05, which demonstrates that both distance indicators are accurate to better than 5%, including systematic errors, and that there is excellent agreement between both distance scales.

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