The Distance to the M31 Globular Cluster System
Astrophysics
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
The distance to the centroid of the M31 globular cluster system is determined by fitting theoretical isochrones to the observed red-giant branches of fourteen globular clusters in M31. The mean true distance modulus of the M31 globular clusters is found to be 24.47 +/- 0.07 mag. This is consistent with distance modulii for M31 that have been obtained using other distance indicators.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9802088,
title = {The Distance to the M31 Globular Cluster System},
author = {Stephen Holland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9802088},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, 2 postscript figures, uses aaspp4.sty, to be published in the May 1998 Astronomical Journal