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Cepheids in binary systems as a unique laboratory for calibration of the cosmic distance scale and studying theories of stellar evolution and pulsation

2012/06/A/ST9/00269

Keywords:

stellar astrophysics układy zaćmieniowe pulsating stars galaxies distance scale

Descriptors:

  • ST9_7: Stars and stellar systems

Panel:

ST9 - Astronomy and space science: astrophysics, astrochemistry, astrobiology, solar system, planetary systems, stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, space science, instrumentation

Host institution :

Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikołaja Kopernika Polskiej Akademii Nauk

woj. mazowieckie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Grzegorz Pietrzyński 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 10

Call: MAESTRO 3 - announced on 2012-06-15

Amount awarded: 2 887 000 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2013-04-11

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2018-04-10

Project duration:: 60 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. 3 laptopy (3 szt.) (24 000 PLN)
  2. drukarka (2 szt.) (4 000 PLN)
  3. 2 laptopy (2 szt.) (16 000 PLN)
  4. serwer macierzowy (45 000 PLN)
  5. skaner (2 000 PLN)
  6. 4 komputery stacjonarne (4 szt.) (3 220 PLN)

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (24)
  • Articles in post-conference publications (7)
  1. Multiplicity of Galactic Cepheids from long-baseline interferometry - III. Sub-percent limits on the relative brightness of a close companion of δ Cephei
    Authors:
    Gallenne, A.; Mérand, A.; Kervella, P.; Monnier, J. D.; Schaefer, G. H.; Roettenbacher, R. M.; Gieren, W.; Pietrzyński, G.; McAlister, H.; ten Brummelaar, T.; Sturmann, J.; Sturmann, L.; Turner, N.; Anderson, R. I.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy and Astrophysics (rok: 2016, tom: 461, strony: 1451-1456), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stw1375 - link to the publication
  2. THE ARAUCARIA PROJECT. THE DISTANCE TO THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD FROM LATE-TYPE ECLIPSING BINARIES
    Authors:
    Dariusz Graczyk, Grzegorz Pietrzynski, Ian B. Thompson, Wolfgang Gieren, Bogumil Pilecki, Piotr Konorski, Andrzej Udalski, Igor Soszynski, Sandro Villanova, Marek Gorski, Ksenia Suchomska, Paulina Karczmarek, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Fabio Bresolin and Alexandre Gallenne
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2014, tom: 780, strony: 59), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/780/1/59 - link to the publication
  3. THE ARAUCARIA PROJECT: HIGH-PRECISION CEPHEID ASTROPHYSICS FROM THE ANALYSIS OF VARIABLES IN DOUBLE-LINED ECLIPSING BINARIES
    Authors:
    Bogumi l Pilecki, Wolfgang Gieren, Grzegorz Pietrzynski, Ian B. Thompson, Radoslaw Smolec, Dariusz Graczyk, Monica Taormina, Andrzej Udalski, Jesper Storm, Nicolas Nardetto, Alexandre Gallenne, Pierre Kervella, Igor Soszyński,6 Marek Górski, Piotr Wielgórski, Ksenia Suchomska, Paulina Karczmarek, and Bartlomiej Zgirski
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2018, tom: 862, strony: 20), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/aacb32 - link to the publication
  4. The Araucaria Project: A study of the classical Cepheid in the eclipsing binary system OGLE LMC562.05.9009 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
    Authors:
    Gieren, Wolfgang; Pilecki, Bogumił; Pietrzyński, Grzegorz; Graczyk, Dariusz; Udalski, Andrzej; Soszyński, Igor; Thompson, Ian B.; Prada Moroni, Pier Giorgio; Smolec, Radosław; Konorski, Piotr; Górski, Marek; Karczmarek, Paulina; Suchomska, Ksenia; Taormina, Mónica; Gallenne, Alexandre; Storm, Jesper; Bono, Giuseppe; Catelan, Márcio; Szymański, Michał; Kozłowski, Szymon; Pietrukowicz, Paweł; Wyrzykowski, Łukasz; Poleski, Radosław; Skowron, Jan; Minniti, Dante; Ulaczyk, K.; Mróz, P.; Pawlak, M.; Nardetto, Nicolas
    Academic press:
    ApJ (rok: 2015, tom: 815, strony: 106), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/815/1/28 - link to the publication
  5. The Araucaria Project: High-precision orbital parallax and masses of the eclipsing binary TZ Fornacis
    Authors:
    Galenne, A., Pietrzynski, G., Graczyk, D., Konorski, P., Kervella, P., Merand, A., Gieren, W., Anderson, R.I., Villanova, S.
    Academic press:
    A&A (rok: 2016, tom: 586, strony: 35), Wydawca: EDP Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201526764 - link to the publication
  6. The Araucaria Project: the First-overtone Classical Cepheid in the Eclipsing System OGLE-LMC-CEP-2532
    Authors:
    Pilecki, Bogumił; Graczyk, Dariusz; Gieren, Wolfgang; Pietrzyński, Grzegorz; Thompson, Ian B.; Smolec, Radosław; Udalski, Andrzej; Soszyński, Igor; Konorski, Piotr; Taormina, Mónica; Gallenne, Alexandre; Minniti, Dante; Catelan, Márcio
    Academic press:
    ApJ (rok: 2015, tom: 806, strony: 29), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/806/1/29 - link to the publication
  7. HARPS-N high spectral resolution observations of Cepheids I. The Baade-Wesselink projection factor of δ Cep revisited
    Authors:
    Nardetto, N.; Poretti, E.; Rainer, M.; Fokin, A.; Mathias, P.; Anderson, R. I.; Gallenne, A.; Gieren, W.; Graczyk, D.; Kervella, P.; Mérand, A.; Mourard, D.; Neilson, H.; Pietrzynski, G.; Pilecki, B.; Storm, J.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy and Astrophysics (rok: 2017, tom: 597, strony: 73), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201629400 - link to the publication
  8. Robust high-contrast companion detection from interferometric observations. The CANDID algorithm and an application to six binary Cepheids
    Authors:
    A. Gallenne, A. Mérand, P. Kervella, J. D. Monnier, G. H. Schaefer, F. Baron, J. Breitfelder, J. B. Le Bouquin, R. M. Roettenbacher, W. Gieren, G. Pietrzynski, H. McAlister, T. ten Brummelaar, J. Sturmann, L. Sturmann, N. Turner, S. Ridgway, S. Kraus
    Academic press:
    A&A (rok: 2015, tom: 579, strony: 68), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201525917 - link to the publication
  9. The Araucaria Project: The Distance to the Fornax Dwarf Galaxy from Near-infrared Photometry of RR Lyrae Stars
    Authors:
    Karczmarek, Paulina; Pietrzyński, Grzegorz; Górski, Marek; Gieren, Wolfgang; Bersier, David
    Academic press:
    Astronomical Journal (rok: 2017, tom: 154, strony: 263), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    0.3847/1538-3881/aa9574 - link to the publication
  10. A solar twin in the eclipsing binary LL Aquarii
    Authors:
    Graczyk, D.; Smolec, R.; Pavlovski, K.; Southworth, J.; Pietrzyński, G.; Maxted, P. F. L.; Konorski, P.; Gieren, W.; Pilecki, B.; Taormina, M.; Suchomska, K.; Karczmarek, P.; Górski, M.; Wielgórski, P.; Anderson, R. I.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy and Astrophysics (rok: 2016, tom: 594, strony: 92), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201628918 - link to the publication
  11. Improving the surface brightness-color relation for early-type stars using optical interferometry
    Authors:
    M. Challouf, N. Nardetto, D. Mourard, D. Graczyk, H. Aroui, O. Chesneau, O. Delaa, G. Pietrzyński, W. Gieren, R. Ligi, A. Meilland, K. Perraut, I. Tallon-Bosc, H. McAlister, T. ten Brummelaar, J. Sturmann, L. Sturmann, N. Turner, C. Farrington, N. Vargas, N. Scott
    Academic press:
    Astronomy and Astrophysics (rok: 2014, tom: 570, strony: 104), Wydawca: EDP Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201423772 - link to the publication
  12. Physical parameters and the projection factor of the classical Cepheid in the binary system OGLE-LMC-CEP-0227
    Authors:
    Pilecki, B.; Graczyk, D.; Pietrzyński, G.; Gieren, W.; Thompson, I. B.; Freedman, W. L.; Scowcroft, V.; Madore, B. F.; Udalski, A.; Soszyński, I.
    Academic press:
    MNRAS (rok: 2013, tom: 436, strony: 953-967), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stt1529 - link to the publication
  13. Searching for visual companions of close Cepheids. VLT/NACO lucky imaging of Y Oph, FF Aql, X Sgr, W Sgr and η Aql
    Authors:
    A. Gallenne, P. Kervella, A. Mérand, N. R. Evans, J. H. V. Girard, W. Gieren, G. Pietrzynski
    Academic press:
    Astronomy and Astrophysics (rok: 2014, tom: 567, strony: 60), Wydawca: EDP science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201423872 - link to the publication
  14. The Araucaria Project. OGLE-LMC-CEP-1718: An exotic eclipsing binary system composed of two classical overtone Cepheids in a 413-day orbit
    Authors:
    Gieren, Wolfgang; Pilecki, Bogumił; Pietrzyński, Grzegorz; Graczyk, Dariusz; Thompson, Ian B.; Soszyński, Igor; Konorski, Piotr; Smolec, Radosław; Udalski, Andrzej; Nardetto, Nicolas; Bono, Giuseppe; Prada Moroni, Pier Giorgio; Storm, Jesper; Gallenne, Alexandre
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2014, tom: 768, strony: 80), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1088/0004-637X/786/2/80 - link to the publication
  15. The occurrence of Binary Evolution Pulsators in the classical instability strip of RR Lyrae and Cepheid variables
    Authors:
    P. Karczmarek, G. Wiktorowicz, K. Iłkiewicz, R. Smolec, K. Stępień, G. Pietrzyński, W. Gieren, K. Belczynski
    Academic press:
    MNRAS (rok: 2017, tom: 466, strony: 2842), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stw3286 - link to the publication
  16. A distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud that is precise to one per cent
    Authors:
    G. Pietrzyński, D. Graczyk, A. Gallenne , W. Gieren, I.B. Thompson, B., Pilecki, P. Karczmarek, M. Górski, K. Suchomska ,M., Taormina, B. Zgirski, P. Wielgórski, Z. Kołaczkowski , P. Konorski , S. Villanova, N. Nardetto, P. Kervella, F. Bresolin, R.P. Kudritzki, J. Storm, R. Smolec, W. Narloch
    Academic press:
    Nature (rok: 2019, tom: 567, strony: 200-203), Wydawca: Nature Publishing Group
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41586-019-0999-4 - link to the publication
  17. A precision determination of the Effect of Metallicity on Cepheid absolute magnitudes in VIJHK bands from Magellanic Cloud Cepheids
    Authors:
    Piotr Wielgorski, Grzegorz Pietrzynski, Wolfgang Gieren, Marek Gorski, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Bartlomiej Zgirski, Fabio Bresolin, Jesper Storm, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Dariusz Graczyk, Igor Soszynski
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2017, tom: 842, strony: 116), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/aa7565 - link to the publication
  18. The Orbital and Physical Parameters, and the Distance of the Eclipsing Binary System OGLE-LMC-ECL-25658 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
    Authors:
    Elgueta, S. S.; Graczyk, D.; Gieren, W.; Pietrzyński, G.; Thompson, I. B.; Konorski, P.; Pilecki, B.; Villanova, S.; Udalski, A.; Soszyński, I.; Suchomska, K.; Karczmarek, P.; Górski, M.; Wielgórski, P.
    Academic press:
    Astronomical Journal (rok: 2016, tom: 152, strony: 29), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/29 - link to the publication
  19. VEGA/CHARA interferometric observations of Cepheids. I. A resolved structure around the prototype classical Cepheid delta Cep in the visible spectral range
    Authors:
    Nardetto, N.; Mérand, A.; Mourard, D.; Storm, J.; Gieren, W.; Fouqué, P.; Gallenne, A.; Graczyk, D.; Kervella, P.; Neilson, H.; Pietrzynski, G.; Pilecki, B.; Breitfelder, J.; Berio, P.; Challouf, M.; Clausse, J.-M.; Ligi, R.; Mathias, P.; Meilland, A.; Perraut, K.; Poretti, E.; Rainer, M.; Spang, A.; Stee, P.; Tallon-Bosc, I.; ten Brummelaar, T.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy and Astrophysics (rok: 2016, tom: 593, strony: 17), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201528005 - link to the publication
  20. New NIR light-curve templates for classical Cepheids
    Authors:
    Inno, L.; Matsunaga, N.; Romaniello, M.; Bono, G.; Monson, A.; Ferraro, I.; Iannicola, G.; Persson, E.; Buonanno, R.; Freedman, W.; Gieren, W.; Groenewegen, M. A. T.; Ita, Y.; Laney, C. D.; Lemasle, B.; Madore, B. F.; Nagayama, T.; Nakada, Y.; Nonino, M.; Pietrzynski, G.; Primas, F.; Scowcroft, V.; Soszynski, I.; Tanabe, T.; Udalski, A.
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2015, tom: 576, strony: 30), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201424396 - link to the publication
  21. Testing Systematics of Gaia DR2 Parallaxes with Empirical Surface Brightness: Color Relations Applied to Eclipsing Binaries
    Authors:
    Graczyk, Dariusz; Pietrzyński, Grzegorz; Gieren, Wolfgang; Storm, Jesper; Nardetto, Nicolas; Gallenne, Alexandre; Maxted, Pierre F. L.; Kervella, Pierre; Kołaczkowski, Zbigniew; Konorski, Piotr; Pilecki, Bogumił; Zgirski, Bartłomiej; Górski, Marek; Suchomska, Ksenia; Karczmarek, Paulina; Taormina, Mónica; Wielgórski, Piotr; Narloch, Weronika; Smolec, Radosław; Chini, Rolf
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2019, tom: 872, strony: 13), Wydawca: IoP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/aafbed - link to the publication
  22. The Araucaria Project. Precise physical parameters of the eclipsing binary IO Aqr
    Authors:
    D. Graczyk, P. F. L. Maxted, G. Pietrzynski, B. Pilecki, P. Konorski, W. Gieren, J. Storm, A. Gallenne, R. I. Anderson, K. Suchomska, R. G. West, D. Pollacco, F. Faedi, G. Pojmanski
    Academic press:
    A&A (rok: 2015, tom: 581, strony: 106), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201526211 - link to the publication
  23. The Surface Brightness--Color Relations Based on Eclipsing Binary Stars: Toward Precision Better than 1% in Angular Diameter Predictions
    Authors:
    Dariusz Graczyk, Piotr Konorski, Grzegorz Pietrzynski, Wolfgang Gieren, Jesper Storm, Nicolas Nardetto, Alexandre Gallenne, Pierre F. L. Maxted, Pierre Kervella, Zbigniew Kolaczkowski
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2017, tom: 837, strony: 7), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/aa5d56 - link to the publication
  24. Theoretical impact of fast rotation on calibrating the surface brightness-color relation for early-type stars
    Authors:
    M. Challouf, N. Nardetto, A. Domiciano de Souza, D. Mourard, H. Aroui, P. Stee1, O. Delaa, D. Graczyk, G. Pietrzynski and W. Gieren
    Academic press:
    A&A (rok: 2015, tom: 579, strony: 107), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201526240 - link to the publication
  1. Precise and accurate distance determination to the LMC and SMC
    Authors:
    Pietrzynski, G.
    Conference:
    XXXVI Polish Astronomical Society Meeting (rok: 2013, ), Wydawca: Polish Astronomical Society,
    Data:
    konferencja 45546
    Status:
    Published
  2. Cepheids in eclipsing binary systems
    Authors:
    Pilecki, Bogumił; Pietrzyński, Grzegorz; Graczyk, Dariusz; Gieren, Wolfgang
    Conference:
    37th Meeting of the Polish Astronomical Society (rok: 2016, ), Wydawca: PTA
    Data:
    konferencja 7-10 Wrzesień 2015
    Status:
    Published
  3. Binary Cepheids from optical interferometry
    Authors:
    Gallenne, A.; Kervella, P.; Mérand, A.; Monnier, J. D.; Breitfelder, J.; Pietrzyński, G.; Gieren, W.
    Conference:
    Setting a New Standard in the Analysis of Binary Stars (rok: 2013, ), Wydawca: EAS Publications Series vol. 64
    Data:
    konferencja 16-19 Wrzesień 2013
    Status:
    Published
  4. Pulsating variables from the OGLE and Araucaria projects
    Authors:
    Pietrzyński, G.
    Conference:
    Precision Asteroseismology (rok: 2013, ), Wydawca: IAU Symposium S301
    Data:
    konferencja Sierpień 2013
    Status:
    Published
  5. An interferometric view on binarity and circumstellar envelopes of Cepheids
    Authors:
    A. Gallenne, P. Kervella, A. Mérand, J. D. Monniera, J. Breitfleder, G. Pietrzyński and W. Gieren
    Conference:
    Precision Asteroseismology (rok: 2013, ), Wydawca: IAU
    Data:
    konferencja Sierpień 2013
    Status:
    Published
  6. THE ARAUCARIA PROJECT. BINARY CLASSICAL CEPHEIDS IN THE LMC
    Authors:
    D. Graczyk, B. Pilecki, G. Pietrzyński, W. Gieren, P. Konorski, I. Soszyński, A. Udalski and A. Gallenne
    Conference:
    Setting a new standard in the analysis of binary stars (rok: 2013, ), Wydawca: EAS Publications Series, 64
    Data:
    konferencja 16-19 Wrzesień 2013
    Status:
    Published
  7. The atmosphere, the p-factor and the bright visible circumstellar environment of the prototype of classical Cepheids delta Cep
    Authors:
    Nardetto, Nicolas; Poretti, Ennio; Mérand, Antoine; Anderson, Richard I.; Fokin, Andrei; Fouqué, Pascal; Gallenne, Alexandre; Gieren, Wolfgang; Graczyk, Dariusz; Kervella, Pierre; Mathias, Philippe; Mourard, Denis; Neilson, Hilding; Pietrzynski, Grzegorz; Pilecki, Bogumil; Rainer, Monica; Storm, Jesper
    Conference:
    Wide-Field Variability Surveys: A 21st Century Perspective - 22nd Los Alamos Stellar Pulsation - Conference Series Meeting, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile (rok: 2017, ), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Data:
    konferencja 12,2016
    Status:
    Published