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New Distance Estimates to RR Lyrae Stars: Towards a Definitive Luminosity Calibration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Andrew Layden
Andrew Layden*
Affiliation:
Bowling Green State University, USA, e-mail:[email protected]

Abstract

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We describe two projects currently underway to provide an improved calibration of RR Lyrae luminosities.

Type
Part 1.3. Stellar Pulsation and the Distance Scale
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 185: Radial and Nonradial Pulsations as Probes of Stellar Physics , 2002 , pp. 118 - 121
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002

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