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Surface Brightness Radii and Distances of Cepheids and the Period-Radius Relationship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

W. P. Gieren
W. P. Gieren*
Affiliation:
Observatorio Astrónomico, Universidad Nacional, and Physics Department, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Columbia

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Recently Gieren (1984) has derived accurate radii and distances of a sample of short-period classical Cepheids using the surface brightness (SB) method introduced by Barnes & Evans (1976). The results indicated that the period-radius (P-R) relationship obtained from SB radii might possess a slope close to the value of 0.82 defined by the Cepheids in clusters and associations (Fernie, 1983) and in conflict with the values obtained from Baade-Wesselink radii and from theoretical models (see Fernie, 1983). Since this finding would lend considerable support to the presently accepted absolute magnitudes of the cluster Cepheids, it was decided to obtain SB radii and distances of well-observed long-period Cepheids in order to strengthen the P-R relationship obtained from the SB technique.

Type
Part I. Fundamental Parameters
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 82: Cepheids: Theory and Observations , 1985 , pp. 38 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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