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The DIRECT Project
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
The DIRECT project aims to determine direct distances to two important galaxies in the cosmological distance ladder – M31 and M33 – using detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs) and Cepheids. I summarize the results of the project and present some results from follow-up observations.
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- Part 2. What variable stars tell us about the Local Group, including the distance scale
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 193: Variable Stars in the Local Group , 2004 , pp. 33 - 40
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004
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