The araucaria project. the distance of the large magellanic cloud from near-infrared photometry of RR lyrae variables

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 272-279

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^g INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAPODIMONTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distance scale; Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: individual (LMC); Infrared: stars; Stars: variables: other

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749147089     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/136/1/272     Document Type: Article

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