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Type II Cepheids as Precision Distance Indicators

2018/31/N/ST9/02742

Keywords:

Type II Cepheids p-factor period-luminosity relation cosmic distance scale

Descriptors:

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

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

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

Piotr Wielgórski 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: PRELUDIUM 16 - announced on 2018-09-14

Amount awarded: 140 000 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2019-07-08

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2023-01-07

Project duration:: 42 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (1)
  1. 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 Nuñez, Sadegh Noroozi, Catalina Sobrino Figaredo, Martin Haas, Klaus Hodapp, Przemysław Mikołajczyk, Krzysztof Kotysz, Dawid Moździerski, Piotr Kołaczek-Szymański
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2022, tom: 927, strony: 89), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/ac470c - link to the publication