Hubble space telescope fine guidance sensor parallaxes of galactic cepheid variable stars: Period-luminosity relations

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1810-1827

  Benedict, G Fritz ^a   McArthur, Barbara E ^a   Feast, Michael W ^b   Barnes, Thomas G ^a,c   Harrison, Thomas E ^d,e   Patterson, Richard J ^f   Menzies, John W ^g   Bean, Jacob L ^a   Freedman, Wendy L ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e KITT PEAK NATIONAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^g SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

^h CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Cepheids; Distance scale; Galaxies: individual (Large Magellanic Cloud, NGC 4258)

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247504185     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/511980     Document Type: Article

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