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Description
We present results of a survey of a 6deg^2^ region near l=60{deg}, b=0{deg} to search for distant Milky Way Cepheids. Few such Cepheids are known at distances >~ R_0_, limiting large-scale Milky Way disk models derived from Cepheid kinematics; this work was designed to find a sample of distant Cepheids for use in such models. The survey was conducted in the V and I bands over eight epochs, to a limiting I~=18, with a total of almost 5 million photometric observations of over 1 million stars. We present a catalog of 578 high-amplitude variables discovered in this field. Cepheid candidates were selected from this catalog on the basis of variability and color change and observed again the following season. We confirm 10 of these candidates as Cepheids with periods from 4 to 8 days, most at distances greater than 3kpc. Many of the Cepheids are heavily reddened by intervening dust, some with implied extinction A_V_>10mag. With a future addition of infrared photometry and radial velocities, these stars alone can provide a constraint on R_0_ to 8% and in conjunction with other known Cepheids should provide good estimates of the global disk potential ellipticity.
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