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Calibrating The Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation From The Infrared Surface Brightness Technique II. The Effect Of Metallicity And The Distance To The LMC

Storm, Jesper; Gieren, Wolfgang; Fouque, Pascal; Barnes, Thomas G.; Soszynski, I.; Pietrzynski, G.; Nardetto, Nicolas; Queloz, D. (2011-10)

Context. The extragalactic distance scale builds directly on the Cepheid period-luminosity (PL) relation as delineated by the sample of Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). However, the LMC is a dwarf irregular ...