The dispersion in the Cepheid period-luminosity relation and the consequences for the extragalactic distance scale

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 347, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1011-1032

  Allen, Paul D ^a,b   Shanks, Tom ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cepheids; Distance scale; Open clusters and associations: general; Supernovae: general

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; GALAXIES; LUMINANCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; METALS; SUPERNOVAE; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

CEPHEID DISTANCE; CEPHEIDS; DISTANCE SCALE; FISHER DISTANCE; HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPES; METALLICITIES; OPEN CLUSTERS AND ASSOCIATIONS: GENERAL; PERIOD-LUMINOSITY RELATIONS; SCALE ERRORS; SUPERNOVAE: GENERAL;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 1642477602     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07286.x     Document Type: Article

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