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The new data for Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-III) survey allow us to study the three-dimensional distribution of stars corresponding to young (a few tens to a few hundreds of millions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Raoul Haschke , Eva K. Grebel , Sonia Duffau

We use data on variable stars from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE III) survey to determine the three-dimensional structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Deriving individual distances to RR Lyrae stars and Cepheids…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Raoul Haschke , Eva K. Grebel , Sonia Duffau

The VMC survey is obtaining multi-epoch photometry in the Ks band of the Magellanic System down to a limiting magnitude of Ks ~ 19.3 for individual epoch data. The observations are spaced in time such as to provide optimal sampling of the…

The Magellanic Clouds, especially the Large Magellanic Cloud, are places where multiple distance indicators can be compared with each other in a straight-forward manner at considerable precision. We here review the distances derived from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Alistair R Walker

We present a three-dimensional structure of the Magellanic System using over 9 000 Classical Cepheids and almost 23 000 RR Lyrae stars from the OGLE Collection of Variable Stars. Given the vast coverage of the OGLE-IV data and very high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Anna M. Jacyszyn-Dobrzeniecka , the OGLE Team

We present a detailed investigation of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) disk using classical Cepheids. Our analysis is based on optical (I,V; OGLE-IV), near-infrared (NIR: J,H,Ks) and mid-infrared (MIR: w1; WISE) mean magnitudes. By…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 L. Inno , G. Bono , N. Matsunaga , G. Fiorentino , M. Marconi , B. Lemasle , R. da Silva , I. Soszyński , A. Udalski , M. Romaniello , H. -W. Rix

We present Cepheids located in the close neighborhood of star clusters from the Magellanic Clouds. 204 and 132 such stars were found in the LMC and SMC, respectively. The lists of objects were constructed based on catalogs of Cepheids and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pietrzynski , A. Udalski

We present results from the Large Magellanic Cloud Near-infrared Synoptic Survey (LMCNISS) for classical and type II Cepheid variables that were identified by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-III) catalogue.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 A. Bhardwaj , L. M. Macri , S. M. Kanbur , C. -C. Ngeow , H. P. Singh

We present the first part of a new catalog of variable stars (OIII-CVS) compiled from the data collected in the course of the third phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-III). In this paper we describe the catalog of…

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

We have determined the three-dimensional structure of the Magellanic Clouds and Magellanic Bridge using over $9\,000$ Classical Cepheids (CCs) and almost $23\,000$ RR~Lyrae (RRL) stars from the fourth phase of the OGLE project. For the CCs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-06 A. M. Jacyszyn-Dobrzeniecka , the OGLE Team

We present a detailed analysis of Magellanic Bridge Cepheid sample constructed using the OGLE Collection of Variable Stars. Our updated Bridge sample contains 10 classical and 13 anomalous Cepheids. We calculate their individual distances…

We present the results of the light curve model fitting technique applied to optical and near-infrared photometric data for a sample of 18 Classical Cepheids (11 fundamentals and 7 first overtones) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We…

We present new and independent estimates of the distances to the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) using near-infrared (NIR) and optical--NIR period--Wesenheit (PW) relations. The slopes of the PW relations are, within the dispersion, linear over the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Bono , L. Inno , N. Matsunaga , K. Genovali , B. Lemasle , F. Primas , M. Romaniello

BVI photometry of the Magellanic Clouds collected during the OGLE-II microlensing experiment makes it possible to study in detail photometric properties of the "major" stellar distance indicators in the Magellanic Clouds. In addition to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Udalski

We present here a nearly complete census of classical Cepheids in the Magellanic System. The sample extends the set of Cepheids published in the past by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) to the outer regions of the Large…

In this work, we discuss the determination of the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using the Leavitt Law, utilizing the public catalog of Classical Cepheid Variable stars from the observational project OGLE-IV (The Optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-09 Kevin Mota da Costa , Alan Miguel Velásquez , Julio Cesar Fabris

Variable stars with well-calibrated period-luminosity relationships provide accurate distance measurements to nearby galaxies and are therefore a vital tool for cosmology and astrophysics. While these measurements typically rely on samples…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-09 Markus Michael Rau , Sergey E. Koposov , Hy Trac , Rachel Mandelbaum

We present the three-dimensional kinematics of classical Cepheids (CCs) in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using Gaia DR3 data. By cross-matching the CCs obtained from the fourth phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-01 Satoya Nakano , Kengo Tachihara

Type II Cepheids (T2C) are less frequently used counterparts of classical Cepheids which provide the primary calibration of the distance ladder for measuring $H_0$ in the local Universe. In the era of the Hubble Tension, T2C variables with…

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