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DIRECT Distances to Local Group Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Dimitar D. Sasselov
Dimitar D. Sasselov*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Abstract

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The two nearby galaxies, M31 and M33, are stepping stones for most of our current efforts to understand the evolving universe at large scales. We are undertaking a long term project, called DIRECT, to improve the direct distance estimate to M31 and M33. The massive photometry we have obtained as part of our project over the past 3 years provides us with very good light curves for known and new Cepheid variables, a large number of eclipsing binaries and other variable stars.

Type
Part 3. Cepheids, RR Lyrae Stars, Distance Scales
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 176: The Impact of Large-Scale Surveys on Pulsating Star Research , 2000 , pp. 182 - 186
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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