The dynamical mass of a classical Cepheid variable star in an eclipsing binary system

Nature

Volumn 468, Issue 7323, 2010, Pages 542-544

  Pietrzynski G ^a,b   Thompson, I B ^c   Gieren, W ^a   Graczyk, D ^a   Bono, G ^d,e   Udalski, A ^b   Soszynski I ^b   Minniti, D ^f   Pilecki, B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^f PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLOUD; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; LUMINESCENCE; MASS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLOUD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STELLAR PULSATION THEORY; THEORY;

EID: 78649463367     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09598     Document Type: Article

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