A Reevaluation of the Cepheid Distance to NGC 300
Abstract
CCD photometry is used to correct the B and V magnitudes of the fainter stars in a sequence that calibrates the photographic photometry of the NGC 300 Cepheids. The revised <V> magnitudes for the Cepheids give a true distance modulus of 26.4+/-0.2 mag for NGC 300, 7.9 mag greater than that for the LMC and in excellent agreement with the distance found from infrared photometry of two of the Cepheids.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- August 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1086/132256
- Bibcode:
- 1988PASP..100..949W
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Photometry;
- Cepheid Variables;
- Distance;
- Calibrating;
- Charge Coupled Devices;
- Stellar Magnitude;
- Astronomy;
- GALAXIES: DISTANCES;
- STARS: CEPHEIDS