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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
We applied the pulsational method (Caputo 1997) to derive the distances to a sample of galactic globular clusters with well-observed RR Lyrae populations. To apply the method we calculated a set of pulsational theoretical boundaries of the instability strip for the range of masses and chemical compositions spanned by the analysed clusters. In this way we were able to fix simultaneously the apparent distance modulus and the absolute visual magnitude of the RR Lyrae population of each cluster in the sample. As a result we derived the following relations: