The Araucaria Project: An improved distance to the Sculptor spiral galaxy NGC 300 from its Cepheid variables

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 128, Issue 3 1785, 2004, Pages 1167-1176

  Gieren, Wolfgang ^a   Pietrzyński, Grzegorz ^a,b   Walker, Alistair ^c   Bresolin, Fabio ^d   Minniti, Dante ^e   Kudritzki, Rolf Peter ^d   Udalski, Andrzej ^b   Soszyński, Igor ^a,b   Fouqué, Pascal ^f   Storm, Jesper ^g   Bono, Giuseppe ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^f IRAP   (France)

^g ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^h INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cepheids; Distance scale; Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Galaxies: individual (NGC 300); Galaxies: stellar content

Indexed keywords

EID: 7944225352     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422924     Document Type: Article

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