Calibration of the distance scale from galactic Cepheids -: II.: Use of the HIPPARCOS calibration

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作者
Paturel, G
Teerikorpi, P
Theureau, G
Fouqué, P
Musella, I
Terry, JN
机构
[1] CRAL Observ Lyon, F-69561 St Genis Laval, France
[2] Turku Univ Observ, SF-21500 Piikkio, Finland
[3] Lab Phys & Chim Environm, F-45071 Orleans 02, France
[4] European So Observ, Santiago 19, Chile
[5] Osserv Astron Capodimonte, I-80131 Naples, Italy
关键词
galaxies : distances and redshift; galaxies : stellar content; cosmology : distance scale;
D O I
10.1051/0004-6361:20020492
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
New estimates of the distances of 36 nearby galaxies is presented. These are based on the calibration of the V - and I-band Period-Luminosity relations for galactic Cepheids measured by the HIPPARCOS mission. The distance moduli are obtained in a classical way. The statistical bias due to the incompleteness of the sample is corrected according to the precepts introduced by Teerikorpi (1987). We adopt a constant slope (the one obtained with LMC Cepheids). The correction for incompleteness bias introduces an uncertainty that depends on each galaxy. On average, this uncertainty is small (0.04 mag) but it may reach 0.3 mag. We show that the uncertainty due to the correction of the extinction is small (propably less than 0.05 mag). The correlation between the metallicity and the morphological type of the host galaxy suggests that we should reduce the application to spiral galaxies in order to bypass the problem of metallicity. We suspect that the adopted PL slopes are not valid for all morphological types of galaxies. This may induce a mean systematic shift of 0.1 mag on distance moduli. A comparison with the distance moduli recently published by Freedman et al. (2001) shows there is a reasonably good agreement with our distance moduli.
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