The Distance to Supernova 1998aq in NGC3982
Abstract
The distance to NGC3982, host galaxy to the Type Ia supernova SN1998aq, is derived using 32 Cepheids discovered in archival multi-epoch Hubble Space Telescope observations. Employing recent Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid period-luminosity relations and absolute zero point, we find a distance to NGC3982 of 20.5+/-0.8(r)+/-1.7(s) Mpc, including both random (r) and systematic (s) uncertainties, and ignoring any metallicity dependency in the Cepheid period-luminosity relation. Still unpublished light curve photometry promises to make SN1998aq one of the most important calibrators for the Type Ia supernova decline rate-peak luminosity relationship.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0110062,
title = {The Distance to Supernova 1998aq in NGC3982},
author = {Peter B. Stetson and Brad K. Gibson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0110062},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, LaTeX (mn.sty). Accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Also available at http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/bgibson/publications.html