PHAT. XIII. M31 Cepheid P-L relation Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Wagner-Kaiser R.
  2. Sarajedini A.
  3. Dalcanton J.J.
  4. Williams B.F.
  5. Dolphin A.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Using Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (HST/ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) observations from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT), we present new period-luminosity (P-L) relations for Cepheid variables in M31. Cepheids from several ground-based studies are identified in the PHAT photometry to derive new P-L and Wesenheit P-L relations in the near infrared and visual filters. We derive a distance modulus to M31 of 24.51+/-0.08 in the IR bands and 24.32+/-0.09 in the visual bands, including the first P-L relations in the F_475W_ and F_814W_ filters for M31. Our derived visual and IR distance moduli disagree at slightly more than a 1{sigma} level. Differences in the P-L relations between ground-based and HST observations are investigated for a subset of Cepheids. We find a significant discrepancy between ground-based and HST P-L relations with the same Cepheids, suggesting adverse effects from photometric contamination in ground-based Cepheid observations. Additionally, a statistically significant radial trend in the P-L relation is found which does not appear to be explained by metallicity.

Keywords
  1. galaxies
  2. variable-stars
  3. hst-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2015MNRAS.451..724W
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History

2016-02-12T09:43:30Z
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2016-02-12T09:43:30Z
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2017-09-15T14:36:23Z
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