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Distances and Radii of Classical Cepheids
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
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We have used new BVRI photometry and radial velocities of a selection of bright classical Cepheids to determine their distances and radii through the surface brightness method. The improved photometry permitted, through the visual surface brightness relation, high-quality angular-diameter values for each Cepheid throughout its pulsation. The simultaneous radial velocities permitted the linear displacement curve to be phase-locked to the angular diameter variation. The results are individual distances and radii with considerably smaller uncertainty than could be obtained previously.
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- Part I. Fundamental Parameters
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- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 82: Cepheids: Theory and Observations , 1985 , pp. 53 - 55
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985
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