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The Cepheid instability strip and the calibration of the primary distance scale

Author(s) -

N. R. Simon,

T. S. Young

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

monthly notices of the royal astronomical society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058

H-Index - 383

eISSN - 1365-8711

pISSN - 0035-8711

DOI - 10.1093/mnras/288.1.267

Subject(s) - cepheid variable , physics , astrophysics , galaxy , instability strip , luminosity , stars , cosmic distance ladder , astronomy , redshift

This study examines the possibility of galaxy-to-galaxy differences in the long-period Cepheid distributions of external galaxies. A simple theoretical framework is created and linear pulsation calculations are performed to model these distributions. The sturdy nature of the Cepheid period-luminosity (P-L) relation is affirmed, but both analytic arguments and the linear model grids point to potent...

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