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Catalog Service:
Insights into the Cepheid distance scale

Short name: J/ApJ/715/277
IVOA Identifier: ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/715/277
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): 10.26093/cds/vizier.17150277
Publisher: CDSivo://CDS[Pub. ID]
More Info: https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/715/277
VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Status: active
Registered: 2012 May 30 12:31:55Z
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Description


We present a detailed investigation of the Cepheid distance scale by using both theory and observations. Through the use of pulsation models for fundamental mode Cepheids, we found that the slope of the period-luminosity (P-L) relation covering the entire period range (0.40<=logP<=2.0) becomes steeper when moving from optical to near-infrared (NIR) bands, and that the metallicity dependence of the slope decreases from the B- to the K band. The sign of the metallicity dependence for the slopes of the P-LV and P-LI relation is at odds with some recent empirical estimates. We determined new homogeneous estimates of V- and I-band slopes for 87 independent Cepheid data sets belonging to 48 external galaxies with nebular oxygen abundance 7.5<=12+log(O/H)<=8.9. We investigated the dependence of the period-Wesenheit (P-W) relations on the metal content and we found that the slopes of optical and NIR P-W relations in external galaxies are similar to the slopes of Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Cepheids. They also agree with the theoretical predictions suggesting that the slopes of the P-W relations are independent of the metal content.

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About the Resource Providers

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Publisher: CDSivo://CDS[Pub. ID]

Creators:
Bono G.Caputo F.Marconi M.Musella I.

Contact Information:
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Email: cds-question at unistra.fr
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Status of This Resource

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Version: n/a
Availability: This is an active resource.
  • This service provides only public data.
Relevant dates for this Resource:
  • Updated: 2018 Jan 08 06:38:13Z
  • Created: 2012 May 30 12:31:55Z

This resource was registered on: 2012 May 30 12:31:55Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2021 Oct 21 00:00:00Z

What This Resource is About

This section describes what the resource is, what it contains, and how it might be relevant.

Resource Class: CatalogService
This resource is a service that provides access to catalog data. You can extract data from the catalog by issuing a query, and the matching data is returned as a table.
Resource type keywords:
  • Catalog
Subject keywords:
  • Chemical abundances
  • Galaxies
  • Stellar distance
  • Variable stars
Intended audience or use:
  • Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/715/277 Literature Reference: 2010ApJ...715..277B

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TAP VizieR generic service(IsServedBy) ivo://CDS.VizieR/TAP [Res. ID]
Conesearch service(IsServedBy)
J/A+A/534/A94 : Milky Way Cepheids radial velocities (Storm+, 2011) ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/534/A94 [Res. ID]

Data Coverage Information

This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time.

Wavebands covered:

  • Optical

Rights and Usage Information

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Available Service Interfaces

Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for this service interface:
Custom Service

This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for this service interface:
  • URL-based interface: http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/715/277
Table Access Protocol - Auxiliary ServiceXX

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input an ADQL or PQL query and returns tabular data.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for the standard interface:
  • http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Simple Cone SearchXXSearch Me

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input a position in the sky and a radius and returns catalog records with positions within that radius.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Description:
Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/715/277/sample (Galaxy sample)
Available endpoints for the standard interface:
  • http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/715/277/sample?
Maximum search radius accepted: 180.0 degrees
Maximum number of matching records returned: 50000
This service supports the VERB input parameter:
Use VERB=1 to minimize the returned columns or VERB=3 to maximize.


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