Distances to Local Group Galaxies

Abstract

Distances to galaxies in the Local Group are reviewed. In particular, the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud is found to be $(m-M{)}_0=18.52\pm 0.10$, corresponding to $50,600\pm 2,400$ pc. The importance of M31 as an analog of the galaxies observed at greater distances is stressed, while the variety of star formation and chemical enrichment histories displayed by Local Group galaxies allows critical evaluation of the calibrations of the various distance indicators in a variety of environments.

15 pages, no figures, to appear in "Stellar Candles for the Extragalactic Distance Scale", Lecture Notes in Physics (Springer), ed. D. Alloin and W. Gieren

Cited by in corpus (24)

• The Vertical Structure of Warm Ionised Gas in the Milky Way
• The influence of chemical composition on the properties of Cepheid stars. II-The iron content
• The Araucaria Project. Near-Infrared Photometry of Cepheid Variables in the Sculptor Galaxy NGC 300
• First Determination of the Distance and Fundamental Properties of an Eclipsing Binary in The Andromeda Galaxy
• A Problem with the Clustering of Recent Measures of the Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud
• M31 Transverse Velocity and Local Group Mass from Satellite Kinematics
• Computational Intelligence Challenges and Applications on Large-Scale Astronomical Time Series Databases
• Mira Variables in the OGLE Bulge fields
• The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Distance Scale
• The Araucaria Project. The Distance to the Local Group Galaxy IC 1613 from Near-Infrared Photometry of Cepheid Variables
• The distance to the Sgr dwarf spheroidal galaxy from the Red Giant Branch Tip
• The Araucaria Project. The Distance to the Small Magellanic Cloud from Near-Infrared Photometry of RR Lyrae Variables
• The distance to the Leo I dwarf spheroidal galaxy from the Red Giant Branch Tip
• Properties of RR Lyrae stars in the Inner Regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud
• The Araucaria Project. The Distance of the Large Magellanic Cloud from Near-Infrared Photometry of RR Lyrae Variables
• The Araucaria Project. The Distance to the Sculptor Galaxy NGC 247 from Near-Infrared Photometry of Cepheid Variables
• The Araucaria Project. An improved distance to the Sculptor spiral galaxy NGC 300 from its Cepheid variables
• The metallicity dependence of the Cepheid PL-relation
• A "pulsational" distance determination for the Large Magellanic Cloud
• Near-Infrared Observations of RR Lyrae variables in Galactic Globular Clusters: I. The case of M92
• Predicted and empirical radii of RR Lyrae stars
• Near-Infrared Properties of Metal-poor Globular Clusters in the Galactic Bulge Direction
• The influence of chemical composition on the properties of Cepheid stars I - Period-Luminosity relation vs iron abundance
• Search for the Gamma-ray Emission from M33 with Fermi LAT