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An Infrared Calibration of the Cepheid Distance Scale

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The results of a five-year campaign to recalibrate the Cepheid period-luminosity relation in the infrared are reviewed. The advantages and limitations of the method as presently used, are highlighted; and finally, new apparent infrared distance moduli relative to the LMC are given for all late-type resolved members of the Local Group with known Cepheids. These include the LMC, SMC, NGC 6822, M33, M31 and IC 1613.

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  1. Department of Astronomy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Barry F. Madore

  2. Downs Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

    Barry F. Madore

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  1. Department of Astronomy, David Dunlap Observatory, University of Toronto, Canada

    Barry F. Madore

  2. California Institute of Technology, Pasedana, California, USA

    Barry F. Madore

  3. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

    R. Breant Tully

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Madore, B.F. (1986). An Infrared Calibration of the Cepheid Distance Scale. In: Madore, B.F., Tully, R.B. (eds) Galaxy Distances and Deviations from Universal Expansion. NATO ASI Series, vol 180. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4702-3_6

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