The araucaria project: The distance to the sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy from infrared photometry of RR lyrae stars

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1993-1997

  Pietrzyński, Grzegorz ^a,b   Gieren, Wolfgang ^a   Szewczyk, Olaf ^a,b   Walker, Alistair ^c   Rizzi, Luca ^d   Bresolin, Fabio ^d   Kudritzki, Rolf Peter ^d   Nalewajko, Krzysztof ^b   Storm, Jesper ^e   Dall'Ora, Massimo ^f   Ivanov, Valentin ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^f INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAPODIMONTE   (Italy)

^g EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Distance scale; Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: individual (Sculptor); Infrared: galaxies; Infrared: stars; Stars: individual (RR Lyrae)

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849090025     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/135/6/1993     Document Type: Article

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