Large Magellanic Cloud Near-Infrared Synoptic Survey. II. The Wesenheit relations and their application to the Distance scale

Abstract

We present new near-infrared Cepheid Period-Wesenheit relations in the LMC using time-series observations from the Large Magellanic Cloud Near-Infrared Synoptic Survey. We also derive optical$+$near-infrared P-W relations using $V$ and $I$~magnitudes from OGLE-III. We employ our new $JH{K}_s$ data to determine an independent distance to the LMC of ${\mu }_{\mathrm{LMC}}=18.47\pm 0.07\text{(statistical)}$~mag, using an absolute calibration of the Galactic relations based on several distance determination methods and accounting for the intrinsic scatter of each technique. We also derive new near-infrared Period-Luminosity and Wesenheit relations for Cepheids in M31 using observations from the PHAT survey. We use the absolute calibrations of the Galactic and LMC $W_{J,H}$ relations to determine the distance modulus of M31, ${\mu }_{M31}=24.46\pm 0.20$~mag. We apply a simultaneous fit to Cepheids in several Local Group galaxies covering a range of metallicities ($7.7<12+\log [O/H]<8.6$~dex) to determine a global slope of -$3.244\pm 0.016$~mag/dex for the $W_{J,K_s}$ relation and obtain robust distance estimates. Our distances are in good agreement with recent TRGB based distance estimates and we do not find any evidence for a metallicity dependence in the near-infrared P-W relations.

16 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal

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