- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/144/113
- Title:
- Cepheids and companions in M33 from HST images
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/144/113
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A precise and accurate determination of the Hubble constant based on Cepheid variables requires proper characterization of many sources of systematic error. One of these is stellar blending, which biases the measured fluxes of Cepheids and the resulting distance estimates. We study the blending of 149 Cepheid variables in M33 by matching archival Hubble Space Telescope data with images obtained at the Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO (WIYN) 3.5m telescope, which differ by a factor of 10 in angular resolution. We find that 55%+/-4% of the Cepheids have no detectable nearby companions that could bias the WIYN V-band photometry, while the fraction of Cepheids affected below the 10% level is 73%+/-4%. The corresponding values for the I band are 60%+/-4% and 72%+/-4%, respectively. We find no statistically significant difference in blending statistics as a function of period or surface brightness. Additionally, we report all the detected companions within 2" of the Cepheids (equivalent to 9pc at the distance of M33) which may be used to derive empirical blending corrections for Cepheids at larger distances.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/428/587
- Title:
- Cepheids BVRIJHK dereddened magnitudes
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/428/587
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The recent VINCI/VLTI observations presented in Paper I (Kervalla et al., 2004A&A...416..941K) have nearly doubled the total number of available angular diameter measurements of Cepheids. Taking advantage of the significantly larger color range covered by these observations, we derive in the present paper high precision calibrations of the surface brightness-color relations using exclusively Cepheid observations. These empirical laws allow to determine the distance to Cepheids through a Baade-Wesselink type technique. The least dispersed relations are based on visible-infrared colors, for instance FV(V-K)=-0.1336+/-0.0008(V-K)+3.9530+/-0.0006. The convergence of the Cepheid (this work) and dwarf stars (Kervella et al. 2004) visible-infrared surface brightness-color relations is strikingly good. The astrophysical dispersion of these relations appears to be very small, and below the present detection sensitivity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/883/58
- Title:
- Cepheids from VVV in the southern Galactic midplane
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/883/58
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The far side of the Milky Way's disk is one of the most concealed parts of the known universe due to extremely high interstellar extinction and point-source density toward low Galactic latitudes. Large time-domain photometric surveys operating in the near-infrared hold great potential for the exploration of these vast uncharted areas of our Galaxy. We conducted a census of distant classical and type II Cepheids along the southern Galactic midplane using near-infrared photometry from the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea survey. We performed a machine-learned classification of the Cepheids based on their infrared light curves using a convolutional neural network. We have discovered 640 distant classical Cepheids with up to ~40mag of visual extinction and over 500 type II Cepheids, most of them located in the inner bulge. Intrinsic color indices of individual Cepheids were predicted from sparse photometric data using a neural network, allowing their use as accurate reddening tracers. They revealed a steep, spatially varying near-infrared extinction curve toward the inner bulge. Type II Cepheids in the Galactic bulge were also employed to measure robust mean selective-to-absolute extinction ratios. They trace a centrally concentrated spatial distribution of the old bulge population with a slight elongation, consistent with earlier results from RR Lyrae stars. Likewise, the classical Cepheids were utilized to trace the Galactic warp and various substructures of the Galactic disk and uncover significant vertical and radial age gradients of the thin disk population at the far side of the Milky Way.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/108/9
- Title:
- Cepheids fundamental parameters I.
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/108/9
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- (no description available)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/896/L43
- Title:
- Cepheids HST amplitudes in V- and H-band
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/896/L43
- Date:
- 21 Mar 2022 07:02:57
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The accuracy of the Hubble constant measured with extragalactic Cepheids depends on robust photometry and background estimation in the presence of stellar crowding. The conventional approach accounts for crowding by sampling backgrounds near Cepheids and assuming that they match those at their positions. We show a direct consequence of crowding by unresolved sources at Cepheid sites is a reduction in the fractional amplitudes of their light curves. We use a simple analytical expression to infer crowding directly from the light curve amplitudes of >200 Cepheids in three Type Ia supernovae hosts and NGC4258 as observed by Hubble Space Telescope-the first near-infrared amplitudes measured beyond the Magellanic Clouds. Where local crowding is minimal, we find near-infrared amplitudes match Milky Way Cepheids at the same periods. At greater stellar densities we find that the empirically measured amplitudes match the values predicted (with no free parameters) from crowding assessed in the conventional way from local regions, confirming their accuracy for estimating the background at the Cepheid locations. Extragalactic Cepheid amplitudes would need to be ~20% smaller than measured to indicate additional, unrecognized crowding as a primary source of the present discrepancy in H0. Rather, we find the amplitude data constrains a systematic mis-estimate of Cepheid backgrounds to be 0.029R+/-0.037mag, more than 5x smaller than the size of the present ~0.2mag tension in H0. We conclude that systematic errors in Cepheid backgrounds do not provide a plausible resolution to the Hubble tension.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/183/109
- Title:
- Cepheids in 3 host galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/183/109
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This is the first of two papers reporting measurements from a program to determine the Hubble constant to ~5% precision from a refurbished distance ladder. We present new observations of 110 Cepheid variables in the host galaxies of two recent Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), NGC 1309 and NGC 3021, using the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/385/793
- Title:
- Cepheids in Magellanic Clouds. II.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/385/793
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The analysis of CCD observations of ten new suspected second overtone mode Cepheids in the SMC does not confirm the nature of such stars; most of them appear to be first overtone mode Cepheids. A careful analysis of the OGLE best second overtone mode candidates and of the second overtone component of double mode Cepheids in SMC and LMC has been performed in order to clarify the possible effects of a resonance between pulsation modes. There are some indications that such a resonance is indeed operating in these pulsators. A brief discussion of the effects of blending on the light curve shape is also reported, and the usefulness of the Fourier parameters as mode discriminators is discussed. The observations were performed with the direct CCD camera at the Dutch 0.91m telescope of La Silla (ESO) during three runs in November 1997 (6 nights), July 1998 (12 nights) and October 1998 (15 nights). The CCD detector was the ESO chip No. 33, which is a TEK CCD with 512x512 pixels, pixel size of 27{mu}m and spatial resolution of 0.44", providing a small field of view of 3.77'x3.77'. 8 fields were selected in order to observe the ten second overtone candidates.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/733/124
- Title:
- Cepheids in M101 observed with HST
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/733/124
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We accurately determine a new Cepheid distance to M101 (NGC 5457) using archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Advanced Camera for Surveys V and I time series photometry of two fields within the galaxy. We make a slight modification to the ISIS image subtraction package to obtain optimal differential light curves from HST data. We discovered 827 Cepheids with periods between 3 and 80 days, the largest extragalactic sample of Cepheids observed with HST by a factor of two. With this large Cepheid sample, we find that the relative distance of M101 from the Large Magellanic Cloud is {Delta}{mu}_LMC_=10.63+/-0.04 (random) +/-0.06 (systematic) mag. If we use the geometrically determined maser distance to NGC 4258 as our distance anchor, the distance modulus of M101 is {mu}_0_=29.04+/-0.05 (random) +/-0.18 (systematic) mag or D=6.4+/-0.2 (random) +/-0.5 (systematic) Mpc. The uncertainty is dominated by the maser distance estimate (+/-0.15mag), which should improve over the next few years.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/130
- Title:
- Cepheids in M31 - PAndromeda Cepheid sample
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/156/130
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the largest Cepheid sample in M31 based on the complete Pan-STARRS1 survey of Andromeda (PAndromeda) in the r_P1_, i_P1_, and g_P1_ bands. We find 2686 Cepheids with 1662 fundamental-mode Cepheids, 307 first-overtone Cepheids, 278 type II Cepheids, and 439 Cepheids with undetermined Cepheid type. Using the method developed by Kodric et al. (2013, , Cat. J/AJ/145/106), we identify Cepheids by using a three-dimensional parameter space of Fourier parameters of the Cepheid light curves combined with a color cut and other selection criteria. This is an unbiased approach to identify Cepheids and results in a homogeneous Cepheid sample. The period-luminosity relations obtained for our sample have smaller dispersions than in our previous work. We find a broken slope that we previously observed with HST data in Kodric et al. (2013, , Cat. J/AJ/145/106), albeit with a lower significance.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/699/539
- Title:
- Cepheids in SN-Ia host galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/699/539
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- This is the second of two papers reporting results from a program to determine the Hubble constant to ~5% precision from a refurbished distance ladder based on extensive use of differential measurements. Here we report observations of 240 Cepheid variables obtained with the Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) Camera 2 through the F160W filter on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The Cepheids are distributed across six recent hosts of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and the "maser galaxy" NGC 4258, allowing us to directly calibrate the peak luminosities of the SNe Ia from the precise, geometric distance measurements provided by the masers. New features of our measurement include the use of the same instrument for all Cepheid measurements across the distance ladder and homogeneity of the Cepheid periods and metallicities, thus necessitating only a differential measurement of Cepheid fluxes and reducing the largest systematic uncertainties in the determination of the fiducial SN Ia luminosity. In addition, the NICMOS measurements reduce the effects of differential extinction in the host galaxies by a factor of ~5 over past optical data. Combined with a greatly expanded set of 240 SNe Ia at z<0.1 which define their magnitude-redshift relation, we find H_0_=74.2+/-3.6km/s/Mpc, a 4.8% uncertainty including both statistical and systematic errors.
