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Precise and accurate measurement of the Hubble Constant in the era of Gaia

2017/26/A/ST9/00446

Keywords:

eclipsing binaries Cepheids Hubble Constant

Descriptors:

  • ST9_8: The Galaxy
  • ST9_7: Stars and stellar systems
  • ST9_15: Cosmology

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: 13

Call: MAESTRO 9 - announced on 2017-06-14

Amount awarded: 3 927 600 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2018-04-17

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2024-02-16

Project duration:: 70 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (30)
  1. Metallicities and ages for star clusters and their surrounding fields in the Large Magellanic Cloud
    Authors:
    W. Narloch , G. Pietrzynski, W. Gieren, A. E. Piatti, P. Karczmarek, M. Górski, D. Graczyk, R. Smolec, G. Hajdu, K. Suchomska, B. Zgirski, P. Wielgórski, B. Pilecki, M. Taormina, M. Kałuszynski, W. Pych, G. Rojas García and M. O. Lewis
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2022, tom: Volume 666, strony: 39), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202243378 - link to the publication
  2. Toward Early-type Eclipsing Binaries as Extragalactic Milestones. I. Physical Parameters of OGLE-LMC-ECL-22270 and OGLE-LMC-ECL-06782
    Authors:
    Taormina, Mónica; Pietrzyński, G.; Pilecki, B.; Kudritzki, R. -P.; Thompson, I. B.; Graczyk, D.; Gieren, W.; Nardetto, N.; Górski, M.; Suchomska, K.; Zgirski, B.; Wielgórski, P.; Karczmarek, P.; Narloch, W.
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2019, tom: 886, strony: 13), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/ab4b57 - link to the publication
  3. Metallicities and ages for 35 star clusters and their surrounding fields in the Small Magellanic Cloud
    Authors:
    W. Narloch, G. Pietrzyński, W. Gieren, A. E. Piatti, M. Górski, P. Karczmarek, D. Graczyk, K. Suchomska, B. Zgirski, P. Wielgórski, B. Pilecki, M. Taormina, M. Kałuszyński, W. Pych, G. Hajdu and G. Rojas García
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2021, tom: Volume 647, strony: 18), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202039623 - link to the publication
  4. The Araucaria Project. Distances to Nine Galaxies Based on a Statistical Analysis of their Carbon Stars (JAGB Method)
    Authors:
    Bartłomiej Zgirski, Grzegorz Pietrzynski, Wolfgang Gieren, Marek Gorski, Piotr Wielgorski, Paulina Karczmarek, Fabio Bresolin, Pierre Kervella, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Jesper Storm, Dariusz Graczyk, Gergely Hajdu, Weronika Narloch, Bogumił Pilecki, Ksenia Suchomska and Monica Taormina
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2021, tom: Volume 916, strony: 11), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/ac04b2 - link to the publication
  5. An Absolute Calibration of the Near-infrared Period–Luminosity Relations of Type II Cepheids in the Milky Way and in the Large Magellanic Cloud
    Authors:
    Piotr Wielgórski , Grzegorz Pietrzyński, Bogumił Pilecki, Wolfgang Gieren Bartłomiej Zgirski, Marek Górski, Gergely Hajdu, Weronika Narloch, Paulina Karczmarek, Radosław Smolec, Pierre Kervella, Jesper Storm, Alexandre Gallenne, Louise Breuval, Megan Lewis, Mikołaj Kałuszyński, Dariusz Graczyk, Wojciech Pych, Ksenia Suchomska, Mónica Taormina, Gonzalo Rojas Garcia, Aleksandra Kotek, Rolf Chini, Francisco Pozo Nũnez, Sadegh Noroozi, Catalina Sobrino Figaredo, Martin Haas, Klaus Hodapp, Przemysław Mikołajczyk, Krzysztof Kotysz, Dawid Moździersk and Piotr Kołaczek-Szymański
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2022, tom: Volume 927, strony: 23), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/ac470c - link to the publication
  6. Extended envelopes around Galactic Cepheids V. Multi-wavelength and time-dependent analysis of IR excess
    Authors:
    A.Gallenne, A. Mérand, P. Kervella, G. Pietrzynski, W. Gieren, V. Hocdé, L. Breuval, N. Nardetto and E. Lagadec
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2021, tom: Volume 651, strony: 27), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202140350 - link to the publication
  7. Multiplicity of Galactic Cepheids from long-baseline interferometry. IV. New detected companions from MIRC and PIONIER observations
    Authors:
    Gallenne, A.; Kervella, P.; Borgniet, S.; Mérand, A.; Pietrzyński, G.; Gieren, W.; Monnier, J. D.; Schaefer, G. H.; Evans, N. R.; Anderson, R. I.; Baron, F.; Roettenbacher, R. M.; Karczmarek, P.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2019, tom: 622, strony: 164), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201834614 - link to the publication
  8. Period-Luminosity Relations for Galactic Classical Cepheids in the Sloan Bands
    Authors:
    Weronika Narloch, Gergely Hajdu, Grzegorz Pietrzyński, Wolfgang Gieren, Piotr Wielgórski, Bartłomiej Zgirski, Paulina Karczmarek, Marek Górski, and Dariusz Graczyk
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2023, tom: Volume 953, strony: 15), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/acdd01 - link to the publication
  9. Surface brightness-colour relations of dwarf stars from detached eclipsing binaries.
    Authors:
    D. Graczyk, G. Pietrzynski, C. Galan, J. Southworth, W. Gieren, M. Kałuszynski, B. Zgirski, A. Gallenne, M. Górski, G. Hajdu, P. Karczmarek, P. Kervella, P. F. L. Maxted, N. Nardetto, W. Narloch, B. Pilecki, W. Pych, G. Rojas Garcia, J. Storm, K. Suchomska, M. Taormina, and P. Wielgórski
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2022, tom: Volume 666, strony: 17), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202244122 - link to the publication
  10. The surface brightness–colour relations based on eclipsing binary stars and calibrated with Gaia EDR3
    Authors:
    D. Graczyk, G. Pietrzynski, C. Galan, W. Gieren, A. Tkachenko, R. I. Anderson, A. Gallenne, M. Górski, G. Hajdu, M. Kałuszynski, P. Karczmarek, P. Kervella, P. F. L. Maxted, N. Nardetto, W. Narloch, K. Pavlovski, B. Pilecki, W. Pych, J. Southworth, J. Storm, K. Suchomska , M. Taormina, S. Villanova, P. Wielgórski, B. Zgirski and P. Konorski
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2021, tom: Volume 649, strony: 17), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202140571 - link to the publication
  11. New Near-infrared Period-Luminosity-Metallicity Relations for Galactic RR Lyrae Stars Based on Gaia EDR3 Parallaxes
    Authors:
    Bartłomiej Zgirski, Grzegorz Pietrzyński, Marek Górski, Wolfgang Gieren, Piotr Wielgórski, Paulina Karczmarek, Gergely Hajdu, Megan Lewis, Rolf Chini, Dariusz Graczyk, Mikołaj Kałuszyński, Weronika Narloch, Bogumił Pilecki, Gonzalo Rojas García, Ksenia Suchomska, and Mónica Taormina
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2023, tom: Volume 951, strony: 22), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/acd63a - link to the publication
  12. Toward Early-type Eclipsing Binaries as Extragalactic Milestones. II. NLTE Spectral Analysis and Stellar Parameters of the Detached O-type System OGLE-LMC-ECL-06782 in the LMC
    Authors:
    Taormina, Mónica; Kudritzki, Rolf-Peter; Puls, Joachim; Pilecki, Bogumił; Sextl, Eva; Pietrzyński, G.; Urbaneja, Miguel A.; Gieren, Wolfgang
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2020, tom: 890, strony: 137), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/ab6bd0 - link to the publication
  13. A Distance Determination to the Small Magellanic Cloud with an Accuracy of Better than Two Percent Based on Late-type Eclipsing Binary Stars
    Authors:
    Dariusz Graczyk , Grzegorz Pietrzyński , Ian B. Thompson , Wolfgang Gieren , Bartłomiej Zgirski , Sandro Villanova , Marek Górski , Piotr Wielgórski , Paulina Karczmarek , Weronika Narloch , Bogumił Pilecki , Monica Taormina , Radosław Smolec , Ksenia Suchomska , Alexandre Gallenne, Nicolas Nardetto , Jesper Storm , Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Mikołaj Kałuszyński and Wojciech Pych
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2020, tom: Volume 904, strony: 18), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/abbb2b - link to the publication
  14. A Geometrical 1% Distance to the Short-period Binary Cepheid V1334 Cygni
    Authors:
    Gallenne, A.; Kervella, P.; Evans, N. R.; Proffitt, C. R.; Monnier, J. D.; Mérand, A.; Nelan, E.; Winston, E.; Pietrzyński, G.; Schaefer, G.; Gieren, W.; Anderson, R. I.; Borgniet, S.; Kraus, S.; Roettenbacher, R. M.; Baron, F.; Pilecki, B.; Taormina, M.; Graczyk, D.; Mowlavi, N.; Eyer, L.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2018, tom: 867, strony: 121), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/aae373 - link to the publication
  15. Cepheids with Giant Companions. I. Revealing a Numerous Population of Double-lined Binary Cepheids
    Authors:
    Bogumił Pilecki, Grzegorz Pietrzyński, Richard I. Anderson, Wolfgang Gieren, Mónica Taormina, Weronika Narloch, Nancy R. Evans and Jesper Storm
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2021, tom: Volume 910, strony: 9), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/abe7e9 - link to the publication
  16. Evolved eclipsing binary systems in the Galactic bulge: Precise physical and orbital parameters of OGLE-BLG-ECL-305487 and OGLE-BLG-ECL-116218
    Authors:
    K. Suchomska, D. Graczyk, C. Gałan, O. Ziółkowska, R. Smolec, G. Pietrzynski, W. Gieren, S. Villanova, M. Górski, I. B. Thompson, P. Wielgórski, B. Zgirski, P. Karczmarek, B. Pilecki, M. Taormina, W. Narloch, G. Hajdu, M. Lewis, M. Kałuszynski and G. Rojas García
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2022, tom: Volume 668, strony: 11), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202244433 - link to the publication
  17. Inspecting the Cepheid Distance Ladder: the Hubble Space Telescope Distance to the SN Ia Host Galaxy NGC 5584
    Authors:
    Behnam Javanmardi, Antoine Mérand, Pierre Kervella, Louise Breuval, Alexandre Gallenne, Nicolas Nardetto, Wolfgang Gieren, Grzegorz Pietrzyński, Vincent Hocdé and Simon Borgniet
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2021, tom: Volume 911, strony: 21), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/abe7e5 - link to the publication
  18. Long-period maser-bearing Miras in the Galactic center. Period-luminosity relations and extinction estimates
    Authors:
    M. O. Lewis, R. Bhattacharya, L. O. Sjouwerman, Y. M. Pihlström, G. Pietrzynski, R. Sahai, P. Karczmarek and M. Górski
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2023, tom: Volume 677, strony: 14), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202346568 - link to the publication
  19. The Araucaria Project Establishes the Most Precise Benchmark for Cosmic Distances
    Authors:
    Grzegorz Pietrzyński, Dariusz Graczyk, Alexandre Gallenne, Wolfgang Gieren, Ian Thompson, Bogumił Pilecki, Paulina Karczmarek, Marek Górski, Ksenia Suchomska, Monica Taormina, Bartłomiej Zgirski, Piotr Wielgórski, Nicolas Nardetto, Pierre Kervella, Fabio Bresolin, Rolf Peter Kudritzki, Jesper Storm, Radosław Smolec, Weronika Narloch, Mikołaj Kałuszyński, Sandro Villanova
    Academic press:
    The Messenger (rok: 2020, tom: No 179, strony: 5), Wydawca: European Southern Observatory
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.18727/0722-6691/5189 - link to the publication
  20. HARPS-N high spectral resolution observations of Cepheids. II. The impact of the surface-brightness color relation on the Baade-Wesselink projection factor of η Aql
    Authors:
    N. Nardetto, W. Gieren, J. Storm, V. Hocdé, G. Pietrzynski, P. Kervella, A. Mérand, A. Gallenne, D. Graczyk, B. Pilecki, E. Poretti, M. Rainer, B. Zgirski, P. Wielgórski, G. Hajdu, M. Górski, P. Karczmarek, W. Narloch and M. Taormina
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2023, tom: Volume 671, strony: 17), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202245298 - link to the publication
  21. The Araucaria project: High-precision orbital parallaxes and masses of binary stars. I. VLTI/GRAVITY observations of ten double-lined spectroscopic binaries
    Authors:
    A. Gallenne, A. Mérand, P. Kervella, D. Graczyk, G. Pietrzynski, W. Gieren and B. Pilecki
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2023, tom: Volume 672, strony: 30), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202245712 - link to the publication
  22. Calibrating the surface brightness – color relation for late-type red giants stars in the visible domain using VEGA/CHARA interferometric observations
    Authors:
    N. Nardetto , A. Salsi , D. Mourard , V. Hocdé , K. Perraut , A. Gallenne, A. Mérand , D. Graczyk, G. Pietrzynski , W. Gieren , P. Kervella , R. Ligi , A. Meilland , F. Morand , P. Stee , I. Tallon-Bosc , and T. ten Brummelaar
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2020, tom: Volume 639, strony: 8), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202037679 - link to the publication
  23. Candidates for non-pulsating stars located in the Cepheidinstability strip in the Large Magellanic Cloud based on Stromgren photometry
    Authors:
    Narloch, Weronika; Pietrzyński, G.; Kołaczkowski, Z.; Smolec, R.; Górski, M.; Kubiak, M.; Udalski, A.; Soszyński, I.; Graczyk, D.; Gieren, W.; Karczmarek, P.; Zgirski, B.; Wielgórski, P.; Suchomska, K.; Pilecki, B.; Taormina, M.; Kałuszyński, M.
    Academic press:
    MNRAS (rok: 2019, tom: 489, strony: 3285), Wydawca: Royal Astronomical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    2019MNRAS.489.3285N - link to the publication
  24. Multiplicity of Galactic Cepheids from long-baseline interferometry. IV. New detected companions from MIRC and PIONIER observations
    Authors:
    Gallenne, A.; Kervella, P.; Borgniet, S.; Mérand, A.; Pietrzyński, G.; Gieren, W.; Monnier, J. D.; Schaefer, G. H.; Evans, N. R.; Anderson, R. I.; Baron, F.; Roettenbacher, R. M.; Karczmarek, P.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy and Astrophysics (rok: 2019, tom: 622, strony: 164), Wydawca: EDP sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201834614 - link to the publication
  25. Studies of RR Lyrae Variables in Binary Systems. I. Evidence of a Trimodal Companion Mass Distribution
    Authors:
    Gergely Hajdu , Grzegorz Pietrzyński , Johanna Jurcsik, Márcio Catelan, Paulina Karczmarek, Bogumił Pilecki, Igor Soszyński, Andrzej Udalski and Ian B.
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2021, tom: Volume 915, strony: 16), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/abff4b - link to the publication
  26. Synthetic Population of Binary Cepheids. II. The Effect of Companion Light on the Extragalactic Distance Scale
    Authors:
    Paulina Karczmarek, Gergely Hajdu, Grzegorz Pietrzyński, Wolfgang Gieren, Weronika Narloch, Radosław Smolec, Grzegorz Wiktorowicz, and Krzysztof Belczynski
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2023, tom: Volume 950, strony: 13), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/acc845 - link to the publication
  27. The Araucaria Project: Deep Near-infrared Photometric Maps of Local and Sculptor Group Galaxies. I. Carina, Fornax, and Sculptor
    Authors:
    Paulina Karczmarek, Grzegorz Pietrzyński, Wolfgang Gieren, Weronika Narloch, Gergely Hajdu, Gonzalo Rojas García, Mikołaj Kałuszyński, Marek Górski, Ksenia Suchomska, Dariusz Graczyk, Bogumił Pilecki, Piotr Wielgórski, Bartłomiej Zgirski, Mónica Taormina and Mradumay Sadh
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (rok: 2021, tom: Volume 253, strony: 12), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4365/abdf60 - link to the publication
  28. The Araucaria project: High-precision orbital parallax and masses of eclipsing binaries from infrared interferometry
    Authors:
    Gallenne, A.; Pietrzyński, G.; Graczyk, D.; Pilecki, B.; Storm, J.; Nardetto, N.; Taormina, M.; Gieren, W.; Tkachenko, A.; Kervella, P.; Mérand, A.; Weber, M.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2019, tom: 632, strony: 31), Wydawca: EDP scince
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201935837 - link to the publication
  29. The Influence of Metallicity on the Leavitt Law from Geometrical Distances of Milky Way and Magellanic Cloud Cepheids
    Authors:
    Louise Breuval, Pierre Kervella, Piotr Wielgórski, Wolfgang Gieren, Dariusz Graczyk, Boris Trahin, Grzegorz Pietrzyński, Frédéric Arenou, Behnam Javanmardi and Bartłomiej Zgirski
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2021, tom: Volume 913, strony: 20), Wydawca: IOP
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/0.3847/1538-4357/abf0ae - link to the publication
  30. The Milky Way Cepheid Leavitt law based on Gaia DR2 parallaxes of companion stars and host open cluster populations
    Authors:
    Louise Breuval , Pierre Kervella , Richard I. Anderson , Adam G. Riess, Frédéric Arenou , Boris Trahin1 , Antoine Mérand , Alexandre Gallenne, Wolfgang Gieren , Jesper Storm, Giuseppe Bono, Grzegorz Pietrzynski, Nicolas Nardetto, Behnam Javanmardi, and Vincent Hocdé
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2020, tom: Volume 643, strony: 15), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/202038633 - link to the publication