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Distance to SN 1987A and the LMC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Nino Panagia
Nino Panagia*
Affiliation:
STScI, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Abstract

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Using the new reductions of the IUE light curves by Sonneborn et al. (1997) and an extensive set of HST images of SN 1987A we have repeated and improved Panagia et al. (1991) analysis to obtain a better determination of the distance to the supernova. In this way we have derived an absolute size of the ring Rabs = (6.23 ± 0.08) x 1017 cm and an angular size R″ = 808 ± 17 mas, which give a distance to the supernova d(SN1987A) = 51.4 ± 1.2 kpc and a distance modulus m–M(SN1987A) = 18.55 ± 0.05. Allowing for a displacement of SN 1987A position relative to the LMC center, the distance to the barycenter of the Large Magellanic Cloud is also estimated to be d(LMC) = 52.0±1.3 kpc, which corresponds to a distance modulus of m–M(LMC) = 18.58±0.05.

Type
Part 8. Cepheids and Distances
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 190: New Views of the Magellanic Clouds , 1999 , pp. 549 - 554
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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