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There is strong evidence that the period-luminosity (PL) relation for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Cepheids shows a break at a period around 10 days. Since the LMC PL relation is extensively used in distance scale studies, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Chow-Choong Ngeow , Shashi Kanbur

Period-luminosity relations (PLRs) of type II Cepheids (T2Cs) in the Small Magellanic Cloud are derived based on OGLE-III, IRSF/SIRIUS and other data, and these are compared with results for the Large Magellanic Cloud and Galactic globular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Noriyuki Matsunaga , Michael W. Feast , Igor Soszynski

The photometric data for 460 classical, fundamental-mode Cepheids in the SMC with log P > 0.4 measured by Udalski et al. have been analyzed for their P-C and P-L relations, and for the variation of amplitude across the instability strip in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Sandage , G. A. Tammann , B. Reindl

It has been claimed that Period-Luminosity relations derived from infrared observations of Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Cepheids are less dependent on the metallicity of the Cepheids. In this work, infrared observations of LMC Cepheids from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Hilding R. Neilson , Chow-Choong Ngeow , Shashi M. Kanbur , John B. Lester

A catalog of Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) from the ASAS project is presented. It contains data on 65 fundamental mode pulsators with periods longer than about 8 days. The period-luminosity (PL) relation in the V-band does…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 P. Karczmarek , W. A. Dziembowski , P. Lenz , P. Pietrukowicz , G. Pojmanski

In this work we matched the AKARI archival data to the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment-III (OGLE-III) catalog to derive the mid-infrared period luminosity (PL) relations for Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) Cepheids. Mismatched AKARI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Chow-Choong Ngeow , Danielle M. Citro , Shashi M. Kanbur

We present new accurate Period-Luminosity (PL) and Period-Wesenheit (PW) relations in the V,J,Ks bands based on a sample of more than 4500 Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) whose photometry was obtained in the context of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-02 V. Ripepi , R. Molinaro , M. Marconi , M. -R. L. Cioni

In this paper we derive semi-empirical Cepheid period-luminosity (P-L) relations in the Sloan ugriz magnitudes by combining the observed BVI mean magnitudes from the Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheids (LMC) and theoretical bolometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 C. Ngeow , S. Kanbur

In this paper, we derive a physical argument for the existence of Period-luminosity and period-luminosity-colour relations at maximum light. We examine in detail a sample of Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and compare the variance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shashi M. Kanbur , Martin A. Hendry

We analyze Galactic, Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud Cepheids and RR Lyrae variables in terms of period-color (PC) and amplitude-color (AC) diagrams at the phases of maximum and minimum light. We compiled Galactic Cepheids…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Anupam Bhardwaj , Shashi M. Kanbur , Harinder P. Singh , Chow-Choong Ngeow

In this work, we updated the catalog of Galactic Cepheids with $24\mu\mathrm{m}$ photometry by cross-matching the positions of known Galactic Cepheids to the recently released MIPSGAL point source catalog. We have added 36 new sources…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Chow-Choong Ngeow , Saurjya Sarkar , Anupam Bhardwaj , Shashi M. Kanbur , Harinder P. Singh

We present the first period-luminosity (PL) and period-Wesenheit (PW) relations in the Sloan-Pans-STARRS gP1rP1iP1 bands for classical fundamental mode Cepheids in the Milky Way. We used a relatively modest number of 76 stars for the PL and…

(ABRIDGED) We have applied the near-IR Barnes-Evans realization of the Baade-Wesselink method as calibrated by Fouque & Gieren (1997) to five metal-poor Cepheids with periods between 13 and 17 days in the Small Magellanic Cloud as well as…

We have applied the infrared surface brightness (ISB) technique to derive distances to 13 Cepheids in the LMC which span a period range from 3 to 42 days. From the absolute magnitudes of the variables calculated from these distances, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 W. Gieren , J. Storm , T. G. Barnes , P. Fouque , G. Pietrzynski , F. Kienzle

We present and discuss theoretical pulsational predictions concerning the properties of Classical Cepheids. The computations have been performed for three different chemical compositions taken as representative of Cepheids in the Magellanic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 G. Bono , F. Caputo , V. Castellani , M. Marconi

We have computed stellar evolutionary models for stars in a mass range characteristic of Cepheid variables ($3<m/\Msol<12$) for different metallicities representative of the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds populations. The stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 I. Baraffe , Y. Alibert , D. Mera , G. Chabrier , J. P. Beaulieu

We present time-series observations of Population \rom{2} Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud at near-infrared ($JHK_s$) wavelengths. Our sample consists of 81 variables with accurate periods and optical ($VI$) magnitudes from the OGLE…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Anupam Bhardwaj , Lucas M. Macri , Marina Rejkuba , Shashi M. Kanbur , Chow-Choong Ngeow , Harinder P. Singh

The OGLE data base is used in conjunction with Kurucz atmosphere models to generate sets of period, effective temperature and luminosity for fundamental and overtone Magellanic Cloud Cepheids. The Florida pulsation code (with linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 J. P. Beaulieu , J. R. Buchler , Z. Kollath

The form and metallicity-dependence of Spitzer mid-infrared Cepheid relations are a source of debate. Consequently, Spitzer 3.6 and 4.5 um period-magnitude and period-color diagrams were re-examined via robust routines, thus providing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 D. Majaess , D. G. Turner , W. Gieren

TThe Period-Luminosity (PL) relation for Cepheid variable stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is crucial for distance measurements in astronomy. This study analyzes the impact of using the median rather than the mean on the PL…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 Jaime Muñoz , Alejandro García-Varela , Santiago Henao-Castellanos , Beatriz Sabogal , Luis Felipe Giraldo