Journal article
The Cepheids of NGC 1866: a precise benchmark for the extragalactic distance scale and stellar evolution from modern UBVI photometry
Abstract
We present the analysis of multiband time series data for a sample of 24 Cepheids in the field of the Large Magellanic Cloud cluster NGC 1866. Very accurate BVI Very Large Telescope photometry is combined with archival UBVI data, covering a large temporal window, to obtain precise mean magnitudes and periods with typical errors of 1–2 per cent and of 1 ppm, respectively. These results represent the first accurate and homogeneous data set for a …
Authors
Musella I; Marconi M; Stetson PB; Raimondo G; Brocato E; Molinaro R; Ripepi V; Carini R; Coppola G; Walker AR
Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 457, No. 3, pp. 3084–3095
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
April 11, 2016
DOI
10.1093/mnras/stw151
ISSN
0035-8711