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Milky Way造父变星的PDKEEPAAA定标及其对距离尺度的意义

The PL calibration for Milky Way Cepheids and its implications for the distance scale

David G. Turner

摘要:

背后的理由最近校准的造父变星PL关系使用的Wesenkirt制定的审查和重新分析,它表明,最近的结论,关于可能的变化的斜率的PL关系的短期和长期造父变星的病理分布HST校准不稳定带内。用银河系中的造父变星在疏散星团和星团中重新校准了周期-光度关系,得到的关系式为log L/L_sun = 2.415(+-0.035)+ 1.148(+-0.044)log P,只显示出不稳定带内颜色扩散的中等散射。造父变星与HST的关系得到了证实,尽管不需要Lutz-Kelker修正,一般来说造父变星与修正的依巴谷的关系得到了证实,尽管对后者的精确度表示担忧。利用NGC 4258星系内区的造父变星,成功地检验了银河系造父变星的Wv = -2.259(+-0.083)-4.185(+-0.103)logP的Wesenkirt公式,证实了该星系与OH脉泽的独立几何距离。星际尘埃和河外尘埃的消光特性之间的差异可能在造父变星PL关系的进一步校准及其在河外距离尺度上的应用中发挥重要作用。

英文摘要:

The rationale behind recent calibrations of the Cepheid PL relation using the Wesenheit formulation is reviewed and reanalyzed, and it is shown that recent conclusions regarding a possible change in slope of the PL relation for short-period and long-period Cepheids are tied to a pathological distribution of HST calibrators within the instability strip. A recalibration of the period-luminosity relation is obtained using Galactic Cepheids in open clusters and groups, the resulting relationship, described by log L/L_sun = 2.415(+-0.035) + 1.148(+-0.044)log P, exhibiting only the moderate scatter expected from color spread within the instability strip. The relationship is confirmed by Cepheids with HST parallaxes, although without the need for Lutz-Kelker corrections, and in general by Cepheids with revised Hipparcos parallaxes, albeit with concerns about the cited precisions of the latter. A Wesenheit formulation of Wv = -2.259(+-0.083) - 4.185(+-0.103)log P for Galactic Cepheids is tested successfully using Cepheids in the inner regions of the galaxy NGC 4258, confirming the independent geometrical distance established for the galaxy from OH masers. Differences between the extinction properties of interstellar and extragalactic dust may yet play an important role in the further calibration of the Cepheid PL relation and its application to the extragalactic distance scale.

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