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Cepheid Radii and Distances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C. D. Laney  and
R. S. Stobie
C. D. Laney
Affiliation:
South African Astronomical Observatory, PO Box 9, Observatory, 7935, Western Cape, South Africa
R. S. Stobie
Affiliation:
South African Astronomical Observatory, PO Box 9, Observatory, 7935, Western Cape, South Africa

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Laney & Stobie (1995) (LS95) have determined Baade-Wesselink radii for 49 galactic Cepheids using BVRI and JHK photometry. Four of the possible magnitude-colour combinations were studied in detail — namely, (V,B–V), (V,V–Ic), (K,V–K) and (K,J–K). In that paper and in the present note we have used the maximum likelihood method of Balona (1977) as recently modified to allow for the nonlinear effects of the non-negligible radius excursions of Cepheids.

One major advantage of infrared photometry is that the light variation at K is dominated by the change in surface area, unlike the light variation at V which is dominated by temperature changes. Another is that (as shown both empirically and by model atmospheres) one may use a J–K or V–K colour index to calculate the surface brightness at K without having to worry very much about the effects of varying surface gravity or Doppler broadening velocity, while the same is definitely not true when optical colour indices are used to calculate the surface brightness at V.

Type
Part 1. The Scientific Programme
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 155: Astrophysical Applications of Stellar Pulsation , 1995 , pp. 254 - 255
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1995

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